North Korea invite inspires Inverness taekwondo instructor
NOT many people are invited to visit North Korea. But Dores instructor Claire Crosbie was granted entry into the world’s most secretive country to pay her respects to the founder of taekwondo.
The 37-year-old travelled to Pyongyang to celebrate the life of Choi Hong Hi who would have been 100 years old on November 9.
She was one of eight representatives from the British Isles Taekwondo Federation to travel to the North Korean capital.
Crosbie, who runs the Claire Crosbie Taekwondo Schools, took part in a training session with the sport’s founder back in 1998 before he died four years later aged 83.
She said it was surreal to be asked to his homeland by the North Korea Taekwondo Committee to pay tribute to him.
Read more in today's Highland News.
