LALITPUR: The ninth National Referee Seminar and eighth Taekwondo Referee Refresher Course concluded here on Thursday.

A total of 256 coaches — 85 new and 171 in refresher course — took part in the course conducted by Korean coach Kwon Young Dal and local coaches Nabin Kumar Shrestha, who is also the convenor of Referee Committee of Nepal Taekwondo Association.

President of NTA Prakash Shumsher Rana handed over the certificates to the participants. The NTA is also organising similar courses in Jhapa, Butwal, Nepalgunj and Mahendranagar.