They started on Wednesday 08/20/2008.
Karate is not and hasn't ever been an event in the Olympics. Tae Kwon Do is an Olympic event.
Yes of coores it does
It already is/was in the Olympics
1 ... a bronze in women's heavyweight class by Sarah Stevenson at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
It appeared in 1992.
No .... through the 2008 Games in Beijing no athlete representing North Korea has ever competed in Olympic taekwondo.
The name Tae Kwon Do, means - tae - "to stomp, trample", kwon -"fist" -, and do - "way, discipline"
ExCeL Exhibition Centre.
When taekwondo was a demonstration sport there were eight weightclasses for men and eight weightclasses for women, so there were sixteen events. When taekwondo became a medal sport, they reduced the number of events by half.
Sixty (60) countries participated in the taekwondo events at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and sixty-four (64) countries participated in the taekwondo events at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The finals for the various categories are between August 17 and 20
Action Tae Kwon Do was created in 1972.