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The dobok is designed to be the ideal garment to wear during taekwondo training, so the student is never allowed to make modifications to the uniform. Modifications even as trivial as rolling up the sleeves on a hot day are not allowed. It is understood that altering a dobok in any way expresses disrespect for taekwondo. Therefore, this is never done.

The Taekwondo Belt System

Taekwondo practitioners wear different colored belts to symbolize the level of expertise they have achieved in the art. There are nine steps and five colored belts in the promotional system of taekwondo. The belts are: white, yellow, blue, red, and black. Although these are the formalized belt colors of taekwondo, some schools have added additional colors as a motivational tool for the students.

The colors of the belts are symbolic of taekwondo's philosophic basis. At the root of this idea are the beginning and ending belts: white and black.

The student of taekwondo begins training as a white belt. He progresses through the rank system from ninth gup, or "grade," to first gup. This descending manner of ranking symbolizes that the taekwondo student is ascending toward black-belt status.