GB Taekwondo performance director Gary Hall (pictured top, right) signed the agreement with the Seoul Physical Education High School in place for the lead up to Rio 2016, and it will allow mutual enhanced development opportunities by an exchange of visits to their respective training centres for 11 to 17-year-olds.

In light of last year's successful performance at London 2012, where Jade Jones claimed a gold medal, GB Taekwondo received a £1.2 million ($1.9 million/€1.4 million) funding boost from Sport England Excel Programme Funding.

Britain plans to utilise the South Korean's world-class pedigree to aid its Junior and Cadet development programmes, which are funded by Sport England.

"Korea remains, as it has for almost the history of the Junior World Championships, the top junior team in the World," said Hall.

"Seoul Physical Education has been responsible for producing many of the best junior taekwondo athletes in the world.

"It is with pride that we now establish a MoU which will create superb development opportunities for our newly enhanced junior and cadet programmes."

Both teams will exchange visits to their respective countries as part of the programme, with British players making their way over to Seoul this summer.

The MoU arrives just in time to allow the selected athletes to prepare for the 2013 Junior European Championships in Portugal in September.

The South Korean juniors will travel to the United Kingdom next year ahead of the 2014 Junior World Championships in Taipei, which will see both nations competing.

GB Taekwondo will use the MoU to focus on their Junior and Cadet development programmes

"The Seoul Physical Education High School has a strong understanding with the South Korean National Sports University – who we [GB Taekwondo] have always had a strong relationship with," Steve Flynn GB Taekwondo commercial director told insidethegames.

"As Korea is home to taekwondo, to have this long term agreement with the Seoul Physical Education High School is fantastic for us.

"This is not something we would have usually been able to do but thanks to the the excel funding from Sport England we have been able to put official structures like this place."

Maeng Kun Kim, head of the taekwondo department at Seoul Physical Education, acknowledged the importance of the agreement.

"The reciprocal visits of our junior teams will ensure that we stage annual elite junior development training camps, which will significantly aid the development of our respective teams," he said.

GB Taekwondo development manager, Dean Leak, who oversaw the nationwide talent identification programme talent 2012: fighting chance, which launched last November, has overseen a crucial quadrupling in funding over the next four years and believes this agreement takes Britain in the right direction to a bright future.

"Seoul Physical Education was built in the shadow of the 1988 Olympic Park and its location provides a daily reminder of what those junior athletes are aspiring to," he said.

"We hope that the visits to Korea and the intense atmosphere created there will help create a part of London 2012's taekwondo legacy with continued success from cadet to elite level."

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