Students of Tae Kwon Do learn movements, commands and instruction in Korean. They endeavor to immerse themselves more into Korean culture.

Here are a few intriguing facts about the language of Tae Kwon Do:

• There are 24 letters in the Korean alphabet.
• It consists of 14 consonants and 10 vowels.
• The shapes of vowels are based on three elements: man (a vertical line), earth (a horizontal line) and heaven (a dot).
• The sounds of certain consonants change depending on whether they appear at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end syllable.
• Korean can be written in vertical columns running from top to bottom and right to left, or in horizontal lines running from left to right.