SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 15 September 2025, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 7 of 100

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Match the following Taekwon-Do Korean terms with their correct English meanings: Which of the following is the correct pairing? Column A (Korean Term) | Column B (English Meaning) 1. Tae | A. Discipline or way 2. Kwon | B. To strike with the hand 3. Do | C. To strike with the feet 4. Dojang | D. Training Hall or place of practice

(a)1-B, 2-C, 3-A, 4-D
(b)1-C, 2-B, 3-A, 4-D
(c)1-A, 2-D, 3-B, 4-C
(d)1-D, 2-A, 3-C, 4-B

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Split the name Taekwon-Do into its parts: tae is the foot, kwon the fist, do the way.

Tae → to strike with the feet: 1-C.
Kwon → to strike with the hand: 2-B.
Do → discipline or way: 3-A.
Dojang, the hall where it is taught → training hall: 4-D.

That is 1-C, 2-B, 3-A, 4-D → option (b).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
1-B, 2-C, 3-A, 4-D — It swaps the first two. Tae is the foot and kwon the fist: Choi Hong-hi brought in kwon, meaning fist, to replace su, meaning hand, in the older name Tae Soo Do.
(c)
1-A, 2-D, 3-B, 4-C — All four pairs are wrong. Dojang is a place, not a kick, and do is the way, not a strike with the hand.
(d)
1-D, 2-A, 3-C, 4-B — All four pairs are wrong. It makes tae a training hall and dojang a hand strike, when tae is the foot and a dojang is where you train.

Concept

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art built mainly on kicks and punches, practised with bare hands and feet.

Its name joins three syllables: tae (跆, to stomp or trample, so the foot), kwon (拳, fist) and do (道, way or discipline). Choi Hong-hi promoted the name, putting kwon in place of su, hand, from the older Tae Soo Do.

A dojang (道場) is the school or hall where it is taught.

Key facts

Tae means the foot (to stomp or trample), kwon means the fist, and do means the way or discipline.
A dojang is the school or hall where taekwondo is taught.
Taekwondo has been an Olympic medal sport since Sydney 2000, after demonstration events in 1988 and 1992.

Study next

Judo, karate and taekwondo as Olympic combat sportsKorean martial-art terms: dobok (uniform) and dojang (hall)Kukkiwon, the national taekwondo academy in Seoul, and World Taekwondo

Common traps

Swapping tae and kwon. The name runs foot, then fist, then way.
Matching Dojang to discipline or way because it begins with do. Dojang is the hall, and do alone is the way.

Here the sport is tested through its vocabulary in a match-the-columns item. Combat-sport origins also appear at 12 Sep 2025, 09:00, GA Q.4, which keys judo's introduction by Jigoro Kano in Japan in 1882.

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