The 2025 GCS International Convention will take place in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on September 19 and the 2^nd Nomad GCS International Open Taekwondo Championship on September 20.

The 2025 GCS International Convention, which will be held in a hybrid format, will be held at the Technopark Convention Hall in downtown Bishkek. About 100 GCS members from host Kyrgyzstan, Korea, India, Australia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and etc. are expected to attend the event in person.

At 3 p.m. on September 20, the opening ceremony of the 2^nd Nomad GCS International Open Taekwondo Championship and the Kyrgyzstan WT Cares Program will take place at the Alga Sports Complex. The Taekwondo event is expected to draw over 200 players from host Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The 1^st Nomad GCS Taekwondo event was held on October 8, 2023.

The annual GCS Bishkek convention, which will last about 3 hours from 3 p.m. on September 19, is expected to draw VIPs, including Dr. Chungwon Choue, president of GCS International and WT; Magableh Maher, president of GCS Australia and a WT Council member; Namdev Shirgaonker, president of GCS India and president of Taekwondo India; Saddad Al Amri, a WT Council member and former president of the Saudi Arabian Taekwondo Federation: Hazem Naimat, former WT Council member and ex-mayor of Amman, Jordan.

About 30 Korean GCS members are also expected to attend the annual convention. Among them will be Lee Hyeong-taek, a board member of GCS International; Prof, Suh Joo-hwan, president of GCS Korea; Lee Won-jong, secretary general of GCS Korea; Seok-jae Kang, vice president of GCS International; Duck-hwa Hong, new secretary general of GCS International; So-young Won, director of GCS International; and a five-member ICKC (International Center for Korean Culture) delegation headed by Eui-kun Park, advisor of the ICKC.

From the host Kyrgyzstan, Baisalov Edil Zhodubaevich, deputy chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers; Umbetaly Toktoralievitch Kydyraliev, president of the National Olympic Committee; Aibek Abdymomunov, director of the State Agency for Physical Culture and Sports, Kwang-jae Kim, Korean ambassador to Kyrgyzstan; Alexey Park, president of GCS Kyrgyzstan and president of the Taekwondo Association of the Kyrgyz Republic; and Seung-gyu Lee, technical director of the Taekwondo Association of the Kyrgyz Republic.

At the GCS convention, the participants are expected to adopt the 2025 GCS Bishkek Peace Initiative and make their country reports in-person and on-line. An ICKC taekwondo development fund will be delivered to the Taekwondo Association of the Kyrgyz Republic.

A welcome dinner will be followed shortly after the GCS convention at Sofia Hotel in downtown Bishkek.

During the opening ceremony of the 2^nd Nomad GCS International Open Taekwondo Championship, which will start at 3 p.m. on September 20, there will be a taekwondo demonstration by about 30 taekwondo students from two orphanages in Bishkek, SOS Children’s Village and Aidanek Center. About 100 orphans of the two orphanages, recipients of the 2025 Kyrgyzstan WT-Cares Program, are financially supported by the Korea Culture Foundation (KCF).

Kyrgyzstan received funds from the Asia Development Foundation (ADF) for its WT-Cares Program for three years from 2022 to 2024, but starting this year the financial support foundation changed from the ADF to the KCF. The two Korean foundations are head by Jun-il Kim.

With the financial support from the KCF, WT is carrying out its Cares programs in Kyrgyzstan and Bhutan this year, while WT is supporting with its own funds six other countries: Nepal, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Pakistan and two African countries: Kenya and Burundi.