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Visiting US President Barack Obama displays his skills in the Korean martial art of taekwondo at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea on 19 November 2009. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak gave him a taekwondo uniform and black belt as a gift during his visit to the office for summit talks. Obama is known to have studied the martial art for four years from 2001, when he was a senator in Illinois. EPA/YONHAPNEWS AGENCY