A Singaporean (religious sister) says she is finding strength and also peace in the Korean martial art of taekwondo. Sister Linda Sim is visiting Korea with her pupils to participate in the taekwondo youth camp in Muju, North Jeolla province. (Oh Kyu-wook, The Korea Herald)

“I believe God gave me taekwondo as a gift,” Sim told The Korea Herald during her training session here on Thursday.

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“I wanted to learn martial arts when I was eight, but my mother forced me to learn piano. So I waited until I became 17,” she said.

After six years of training, she was able to compete in a national championship, and won a bronze medal. From then on, taekwondo has become her obsession, she said. However, instead of becoming a taekwondo athlete she decided to become a (religious).

“I had to give it up because I believed that God wanted me to serve people, to become a sister,” she said. After she became a sister of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood, she was sent to England for nearly 17 years.

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Singapore nun tells of passion for taekwondo (The Korea Herald)