How do you say 'form' in Korean?

• A. Poom-say
• B. Taegeuk
• C. Poom
• D. Hapkido

Answer: (A)

In Taekwondo, the term for the set of moves you perform as a single sequence is poomsae, pronounced poom-say. This is the standard word used to refer to forms, and saying it as “poom-say” mirrors the common English pronunciation of the Korean term 품새. The other options don’t serve as the general word for a form: Taegeuk is the name of a specific group of forms, not the generic term for form itself; poom by itself is only part of the full term and isn’t used alone to mean form in everyday usage; hapkido is a different martial art entirely. So poom-say is the best answer because it matches both the official term and its common pronunciation for “form.”