The WTF announced on 3rd February 2009 the result of the vote for the proposed changes to the competition rule. The votes were received form 114 member national associations who voted 76% in favour (87 votes) of accepting the new rules.

The rules updated in our TKPulse system are:

• Head kick point is now 3 points.
• An additional point is given (by the referee) for a "turning  kick" to the body.
• Combinations of kyongo-go and gam-jeom will be given as additional points to the opposing contestant and not deducted from the offending contestant.
• The inactive period of non fighting is now 5 seconds instead of the commonly practiced timing of 10 seconds. The process for giving kyongo-go for continued  non fighting is as before. An extra timer has been added to control and external window of the TKPulse.
• Win by 7 point gap is removed.
• Wind by 12 point ceiling is removed.