Singapore Taekwondo Federation


Singapore Taekwondo Federation is Singapore's national governing body for taekwondo. It is affiliated to World Taekwondo and Singapore National Olympic Council.

History

The Singapore Taekwondo Federation was established in 1973. Within six months of establishment, the Singapore Taekwondo Association broke off from Federation, over an issue of grading dispute.
In 2018, Milan Kwee resigned from his president position, citing spending time with his family and allowing the federation to progress. His resignation led to the resignations from the first vice-president Ho Mun Wai, honorary treasurer Juliana Seow, and assistant honorary treasurer Ng Lee Noi. In an emergency meeting called by the STF management, second vice-president Lee Chee Wee and committee member Yeo Soon Keong also resigned from the management committee. David Koh was elected as the acting position during the same meeting. Sport Singapore's chief executive officer, Lim Teck Yin, expressed concerns about the sudden management change and that the situation is being monitored closely.
Following a series of controversies the STF was suspended by world governing body World Taekwondo and the Singapore National Olympic Council on 8 May 2019.. SNOC expressed "grave concerns in the governance and high performance management of the STF", and called for "proper, fair and transparent systems in the governance and high performance management of Singapore taekwondo", and have taken over the managing of national athletes.
WT had also found “evidence of violations of the WT Code of Ethics Articles 2 and 9 ” by both secretary general Wong Liang Ming and general manager Lim Teong Chin, and Singapore’s national taekwondo team captain Raja Zulfadli lodged a police report after Wong allegedly "compelled him to show her the group message he has with the SNOC and other athletes". Wong will be stepping down from her roles in STF.

Presidents