The association Suokjang is founded in 1985 by Steve and Ella Zondag with Frans Tupamahu, with the objective of providing taekwondo training and promoting taekwondo in general, within the Netherlands and beyond.

The main basis for the creation was that Suokjang should be accessible to such a broad group, without distinguishing between colour, religion, education, ethnicity or age.

This is well succeeded in recent years . At Suokjang all members treat each other friendly, sporty and with respect.
In addition, each member Suokjang can make the choice to practice  taekwondo as recreation or as a competitive sport. In recent years, Suokjang has delivered many black belt members, now almost fifty.

In addition, interested members can develop to an assistant teacher, teacher or referee.
These courses are provided by the Dutch Taekwondo Association (NTA), the semi-contact (ITF) taekwondo federation to which Suokjang  is connected.

Since 1985 Suokjang provides very successful competition-taekwondoka's, a large number of members provided great performance on the contestmat. Also technically Suokjang is highly recommended.  Head Teacher Steve Zondag, ^7th dan, is a member of the National Dan-degree College.
This college is the judge for the national dandegree-examens.

Since 2002 Steve Zondag is coach of the NTA, and since January 2010 vice-chairman of the ITF Royal Dutch. Under his leadership wonderful titles and prices are achieved. Among others, the senior A men's team sparring won the world title in 2004 in South Korea.

Graziella Idili conquered in 2005 by the senior A women's two world titles in Cardiff on the parts tuls and music-uls.
In 2007 in Birmingham  Graziella knew to prolong this title in tuls and with the men A senior William van Dam conquered the worldtitle in the -80 kg class.

Without referees, there are no possible matches, Suokjang currently has two arbitrators:  Yvonne Evers and Martin van Straaten Sr.
The Suokjang site was designed and is regularly provided with current events by our own computer enthusiast Petra Portman. There are regularly taekwondoka's of other schools / organizations in the Netherlands training with Suokjang. Mainly to keep the technical knowledge up to date , or additional training for an upcoming exam.

Any serious taekwondoka knows: he or she is always welcome at Suokjang.
The training at Suokjang is provided with the assistance of the degree holders.