2013년 5월 31일 금요일

The Walk for Peace and Restoration with MANNAM and MYIC(2)

Hi, friends! 
I would love to appreciate all these creative placards these participants made with you guys.
Shall we start? :)



Lovely,bubbly placards, here we go!:)
The left one on your side, Peace in Love looks like this blog, right? (MANNAM : Love & Peace)
The center one has a dove which has a meaning of Peace.
Do you know how this bird has the meaning of peace? It's from the bible, the story of Noah's ark.



As I posted before, a rose of Sharon is a national flower of Republic of Korea and the language of this flower is 'eternity'.
Look at these hands holding the roses of Sharon.
All the different skin colors.
Each of hands have the flowers together.
This placard has many and deep.


A Republic of Korea's mother language is Korean, Han-guel and the 1st foreign language is English.
Easy to fine signs in English for tourists(It could be hard to speak Eng to local people, though).
A very few portion population of South,Korea can speak the third world languages.
Cool to see lovely placard in some different language.




Where are V and E? lol
People make mistakes but only people can make peace in the world, if they want.
So let us want it.
Let us want it.
Let us want Peace to have so come together to become One.
Yay Yay Yay!

2013년 5월 29일 수요일

The Walk for Peace and Restoration with MANNAM and MYIC(1)

2013, 05, 25 in Seoul.
There was such a movement, the Walk for Peace and Restoration.
Held with MANNAM, MIYC and a good many international youth groups working for Peace.
Participants walked 2km with one heart longing for world peace.



No war, World Peace!
Participants made many creative pickets to show what they, we want!
(This one is a bit straight though, still cool)



It was held in Seoul, South, Korea.
It was so good to see many many people from all over the world who are willing to do something memorable and sustainable for world peace.
Over 30 degrees couldn't bother these amazing people's work and actually motivated them getting hotter passion:p
Come on!! XD



The parade was happened along Olympic Park in Seoul which was built to commemorate Seoul Olympic in 1988.
The cute tiger character you see in the right part of this photo was Seoul Olympic mascot, Ho-Dol-Yee.
What a cuttie pie with Peace sign?! lol

I will let you get to know more of this walk as a series day by day(Hopefully).
+Hope to have a chance to talk about this such a character, Ho-Dol-Yee[호돌이].


2013년 5월 27일 월요일

MANNAM's representative song, 'Hand In Hand'

                                 

Hi, friends!
I would love to introduce such a song, 'Hand in Hand'.
It is for PEACE.
Most of Koreans know this song and love this song.
Personally I love this song, I feel we can really become ONE.
Isn't it easy to become pessimistic about world peace?
Isn't it just common to not to talk about world peace?
Haven't you noticed people wouldn't be interested in this such topic?
However!
Listen to this song and start doing a little bit.

MANNAM has chosen it for the organization's representative song.
MANNAM is a word in Korean, it means 'meeting'.
The main slogan is "Light meets light, there is a victory".

Let's become a light and gather together.
Let's step forward and move together.
World peace will be shown up with our effors and hearts.
(Cheesy! but true!)




손에 손 잡고
Hand in Hand


하늘 높이 솟는 불
The flame rising high in the sky
우리들 가슴 고동치게 하네
Makes our hearts beating fast
이제 모두 다 일어나
Let us stand up
영원히 함께 살아가야 할 길 나서자
And go for the everlasting way to live together
손에 손 잡고 벽을 넘어서
Hand in hand beyond the wall
우리 사는 세상 더욱 살기 좋도록
For making better world we live in
손에 손 잡고
Hand in hand
벽을 넘어서
Beyond the wall
서로 서로 사랑하는 한 마음 되자
Let us become one with loving each other
손 잡고
In hand


I can't skip out a bit from Wikipedia :p

Hand in Hand(Korean name: Son-e Son Japgo (손에 손 잡고) ) was the theme song of the 1988 Seoul Olympic.
This 4:13 minute song was produced by Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (Italian).
Its English lyric was composed by Tom Whitlock (American), Korean lyric by Kim Moon-hwan (Korean).
It was sung by Koreana (Koreans)


Indeed it is very little, though lol

2013년 5월 21일 화요일

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : G.K.Chesterton



Angels can fly because they take themeselveslightly
-G.K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton, by Ernest Herbert Mills, 1909

BornGilbert Keith Chesterton
29 May 1874
Kensington, London, England
Died14 June 1936 (aged 62)
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England
OccupationJournalist, Novelist, Essayist

GenresFantasy, Christian apologetics, Catholic apologetics, Mystery, Poetry
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer. He wrote on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. 

Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."

Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics, and even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the universal appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." 

Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Cardinal Newman, and John Ruskin.

2013년 5월 18일 토요일

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : J.M.Berrie

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's hearts
:J.M.Berrie

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust
-J.M.Berrie-




from Wikipedia


 Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously.
Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents.
Barrie was made a baronet by George V in 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in 1922. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.

2013년 5월 17일 금요일

MIYC(MANNAM International Youth Coalition), Walk together for PEACE (3)


2013. 04. 21. A beautiful Sunday. At Seoul Grand Park in South Korea.

Young generation from all over the world gathered together and worked for world peace by peaceful walking ans sharing their ideas for peace.




Kingdom of Saudi Arabia


Republic of China

Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal

Kyrgyz Republic

the Hashemite Kindom of Jordan


The finish line.
Hopefully, we! we! end all the war :)




+ There is another walking for peace coming soon! 

   Hope for the best, even better one!!

MIYC(MANNAM International Youth Coalition), Walk together for PEACE (2)



2013. 04. 21. A beautiful Sunday. At Seoul Grand Park in South Korea.

Young generation from all over the world gathered together and worked for world peace by peaceful walking ans sharing their ideas for peace.




Republic of Uganda

Republic of India

Republic of Malawi


Republic of Azerbaijan

Socialist Republic of Vietnam

2013년 5월 16일 목요일

MIYC(MANNAM International Youth Coalition), Walk together for PEACE (1)


2013. 04. 21. A beautiful Sunday. At Seoul Grand Park in South Korea.

Young generation from all over the world gathered together and worked for world peace by peaceful walking ans sharing their ideas for peace.




March for peace


MIYC chose some special countries which desire for peace in reality.
(these countries have been affected by the war before or still at war)

Republic of  Korea


Republic of the Philippines

Republic of Bangladesh




2013년 5월 14일 화요일

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Gabriel Garcia Marquez

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's hearts 
: Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Human beings are not born once
and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them,
but... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

-Gabriel Garcia Marquez




From Wikipedia

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
(Spanish pronunciation: [ɡaˈβɾjel ɡaɾˈsia ˈmaɾkes]
Born March 6, 1927) is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, and is the earliest remaining living recipient.1 He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.

He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo (the town mainly inspired by his birthplace Aracataca), and most of them express the theme of solitude.

2013년 5월 13일 월요일

MANNAM with the flower of peace, Mugunghwa(Rose of Sharon)






MANNAM has held the festival of Mugunghwa for world peace in all parts of South, Korea.
MANNAM international Volunteer association has introduced Mugunghwa, Rose of Sharon as an image of Peace which is the national flower of South, Korea.


Making Bi-Bim-Bab(Mixed rice with all the veges and anything you wanna put in) for 100 people
This photo is from Newsis

Full of Mugungwhas in the Korean peninsula
This photo is from MANNAM Cheon-an

Let's get to know this such flower more!


Cultural presentation from Wikipedia

Rose of Sharon is the national flower of South Korea. The first record of the Rose of Sharon (mugunghwa:무궁화) grown in Korea is mentioned in an article produced 1,400 years ago. A mythological fiction, Xuanzhongji (Hanja:玄中記), written in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Hanja:東晉) of China mentions, "The Land of Wisemen is spread for 1,000 li where mugungwha flowers bloom plentifully."(君子之國,地方千里,多木槿之華) The name "mugungwha" was first used by the poet Lee Gyu-bo (이규보,1168 – 1241) of Goryeo Dynasty.

In the USA, the Rose of Sharon is the official flower of Phi Beta Chi, a national Lutheran-based Greek social letter sorority.

In Canada, Rose of Sharon is a charity that focuses on helping pregnant and parenting young women under the age of 25

In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Rose of Sharon (often called "Rosasharn") is a major character, the eldest daughter of the Joad family and the sister of the protagonist Tom Joad. Throughout much of the novel, she is depicted as fragile because of her pregnancy.

Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony takes the form of a monologue by a narrator self-identified as Chavatzelet HaSharon, "the lily that man has picked and thrown away."

The song "King's Ransom" from the 1986 Petra album Back to the Street contains a lyric in which the Rose of Sharon symbolizes Jesus Christ.

The song "Rose of Sharon" is on the 1991 Camel album Dust and Dreams

The Rose of Sharon is also referenced in the Kate Bush recording "The Song of Solomon" from her 1993 album The Red Shoes.

The Rose of Sharon is referenced in the Killswitch Engage song "Rose of Sharyn" from their 2004 album The End of Heartache.

There is a song entitled "Rose of Sharon" on Xiu Xiu's 2005 album La Forêt. 

The lyrics seem to allude to both the Song of Solomon and to Steinbeck's novel.

The Ragnarok Online background music set includes a track called "Rose of Sharon".

The village of Rosharon, Texas is named after the "Rose Of Sharon" from the Cherokee Roses that grew nearby.

The Rose of Sharon is referenced in the Bob Dylan song "Caribbean Wind." The song appeared on the compilation album Biograph but was originally recorded during the sessions for Shot of Love.

Leonard Cohen in his original poem "The Traitor" (on which the song "The Traitor" is based) also refers to the Rose of Sharon.

Rose of Sharon is a homeless character in Sherman Alexie's short story "What You Pawn I Will Redeem," published April 21, 2003 in The New Yorker.

In Brazil, Rosa de Saron (Portuguese for Rose of Sharon) is the name of a well-known white rock group, that has include recorded some songs in English.
Sephardic Hebrew poetry from the 10th-15th century demonstrates prolific use of the חבצלת (ḥăḇaṣṣeleṯ) translated into English consistently as "Rose of Sharon"; there are a few renderings as "lily" (see Gate 47 of the Tahkemoni). 

The term and trope are found throughout the Sefer Tahkemoni by Yehuda Alharizi (1165–1225) and much of the poetic corpus of the Golden Age of Iberian Jewish belles lettres, which includes the works of such poets as Shmu'el HaNagid (993-1056), Moses Ibn Ezra (c.1055-after 1138), Yehuda Halevi (c.1075-1141), and Abraham Ibn Ezra (c.1093-c.1167) among others.

"Rose of Sharon" is a song sung by Joan Baez on the album Day After Tomorrow.


Personal and special information from me:)

Personally, if I could give you a little bit more from what I've found about this flower, this flower is unable to be in full blossom, but can be in the republic of Korea. Is that one of reasons for the national flower of Korea?:)

2013년 5월 12일 일요일

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Oliver Wendell Holmes

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's hearts 
: Oliver Wendell Holmes



Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum

Oliver Wendell Holmes

How can I tell you this is the way to live, this kind of life you should have.
All we do is stepping forward to be a better person.
We will make many mistakes, find many flaws in situations we face with, and even in ourselves.
Although never give up no matter what.
I still have a life!

Personally doing this blog and all the volunteer work is for that.
People in the world get easily pessimistic about world peace.
Sometimes, it seems they are right through all the world news from the paper.
Nevertheless, I have a life.




Oliver Wendell Holmes


Oliver Wendell Holmes was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 29, 1809, and died October 7, 1894.

At the age of twenty he graduated at Harvard University, then took up the study of law. This study, however, was soon abandoned for medicine. He studied in Europe for a short time, and took his degree as doctor of medicine at Cambridge, in 1836. Two years later he was appointed to the chair of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College. This position he held till 1847, when he accepted a similar position at Harvard, which he held till 1892. All of his literary work was performed in addition to the labors of a continuous professorship in college of about forty-seven years.

Holmes' literary tastes were early indicated by his comic and satiric verse contributed to "The Collegian." These were excellent of their kind. In his early works, the mirth so often outweighed the sentiment as to lessen the promise and the self-prediction of his being a poet indeed. While many of his youthful stanzas are serious and elegant, those which approach the feeling of true poetry are in celebration of companionship and good cheer. He seemed to exemplify what Emerson was wont to preach, that there is honest wisdom in song and joy. He contributed numerous pieces to American periodicals, and in 1836 collected his poems into a volume. His life was not marked by any noted events, but it was like the steady movement of a great river. It grew broader and deeper in each mile of its progress. "Holmes was a shining instance of one who did solid work as a teacher and practitioner, in spite of his success in literature." "Poetry," a metrical essay, was followed by "Terpsichore," a poem; in 1846, "Urania," in 1850, "Astreea," "The Balance of Allusions," a poem. These poems were first delivered before college and literary societies.

Though the most direct and obvious of the Cambridge group, the least given to subtleties, he was our typical university poet; the minstrel of the college that bred him, and within whose liberties he taught, jested, sung, and toasted, from boyhood to what in common folk would be old age. Alma Mater was more to him than to Lowell or Longfellow, and not until he came into her estate could Harvard boast a natural songster as her laureate. Two centuries of acclimation, and some experience of liberty, probably were needed to germinate the fancy that riots in his measures. Before his day, moreover, the sons of the Puritans hardly were ripe for the doctrine that there is a time to laugh, that humor is quite as helpful a constituent of life as gravity or gloom. Provincial-wise, they at first had to receive this in its cruder form, and relished heartily the broad fun of Holmes' youthful verse. Their mirth-maker soon perceived that both fun and feeling are heightened when combined. The poet of 'The Last Leaf' was among the first to teach his countrymen that pathos is an equal part of true humor; that sorrow is lightened by jest, and jest redeemed from coarseness by emotion, under most conditions of this our evanescent human life."

Turning his attention to prose, he published, in 1858, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," a series of light and genial essays full of fancy and humor, which has been successful both in the New and Old World. It appears that this work was planned in his youth; but we owe to his maturity the experience, drollery, proverbial humor, and suggestion that flow at ease through its pages. Little was too high or too low for the comment of this down-east philosopher. A kind of attenuated Franklin, he viewed things and folks with the less robustness, but with keener distinction and insight. His pertinent maxims are so frequent that it seems, as was said of Emerson, as if he had jotted them down from time to time and here first brought them to application; they are apothegms of common life and action, often of mental experience, strung together by a device to original as to make the work quite a novelty in literature. The Autocrat holds an intellectual tourney at a boarding-house table; there, jousts against humbug and stupidity, gives light touches of knowledge, sentiment, illustration, coins here and there a phrase destined to be long current, nor forgets the poetic duty of providing a little idyl of human love and interest.

This was followed by "The Professor at the Breakfast Table," and later by "The Poet at the Breakfast Table." "The Professor" is written somewhat in the manner of Sterne, yet without much artifice. The story of Iris is an interwoven thread of gold. The poems in this book are inferior to those of the Autocrat, but its author here and there shows a gift of drawing real characters; the episode of the Little Gentleman is itself a poem,--its close very touching, though imitated from the death scene in Tristram Shandy. "The Poet at the Breakfast Table," written some years after, is of a more serious cast than its predecessors, chiefly devoted to Holmes' peculiar mental speculations and his fluent gossip on books and learning. He makes his rare old pundit a liberal thinker, clearly of the notion that a high scholarship leads to broader views.
Between the second and third of the "Autocrat" series, appeared, in 1861, "Elsie Venner," and in 1868, "The Guardian Angel," two excellent novels. Then, in 1872, he published "Mechanism in Thought and Morals." He is also author of a valuable medical work, and of numerous essays and poems of value.

When the civil war broke out, this conservative poet, who had taken little part in the agitation that preceded it, shared in every way the spirit and duties of the time. None of our poets wrote more stirring war lyrics during the conflict; none was more national so far as loyalty, in a Websterian sense, to our country and her emblem is concerned. He always displayed the simple, instinctive patriotism of the American minute-man. He may or may not have sided with his neighbors, but he was for the nation. His pride was not of English, but of long American descent.

Than Holmes, no one has written a greater number of short beautiful poems, that are on every tongue. When a noted American ship was declared unseaworthy, and about to be abandoned, our poet came forward with a magnificent poem, entitled "Old Ironsides," that gave that fine old ship a half century of preservation.

But he gave us some of the best thoughts. Many of his sayings must stand among the finest specimens of American wit and humor; and his writings, as a whole, will always be classed among the best of their kind. In his prose works we are constantly delighted by the frequent occurrence of the most brilliant and original thoughts. He will always stand in the temple of American literature, among the most brilliant and popular writers.

< British and American Poets of the 19th Century >

http://www.2020site.org/poetry/owh.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Sr.
http://www.dictionary-quotes.com/man-s-mind-stretched-by-a-new-idea-never-goes-back-to-its-original-dimensions-oliver-wendell-holmes/

2013년 5월 11일 토요일

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : William Shakespeare

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's hearts 
: William Shakespeare



The earth has music for those who listen


William Shakespeare




Truly the earth does that!
What I have found through my short life is the earth looks like people a lot.
Show you care the earth, act like you love the earth, long for peace upon the earth, be faithful to the earth and people who live on this small planet.

2013년 5월 10일 금요일

The leaders of MANNAM, Man Hee Lee and Nam Hee Kim visited Africa for world peace!


Man Hee Lee, the honorary chairman of MANNAM and Nam Hee Kim, the chairman of MANNAM had the trip 'East to West'. Here is how Man Hee Lee felt and what he got out of the trip.

The following is Man Hee Lee wrote about the trip.



Two million people of Nigeria invited us, and several hundred thousand people of Congo invited us and announced a seminar in advance through media, then they eagerly waited for this day. However, due to the circumstances of the country, the seminars were cancelled. We went to Ethiopia and South Africa. I met with the presidents of those two countries and formed brotherly ties with them, the two presidents promised to become members of MANNAM.


At the time when we greeted the President, we first showed the video of the highlights of the event on Sept. 16th, 2012, the World Peace Festival: Culture and Sports Celebration of Restoring Light, then we requested that they cooperate with and work for world peace.


The contents of the discussion were as follows. When it comes to war, it is not the presidents, ministers, or legislators who go to fight. It is the young men who go to fight and die. How will this regrettable death be compensated for? We requested cooperation for our work of petitioning for the ‘ending war and for world peace and the restoration of light,’ and to have it turned into an international law, this is something they would do if they truly loved peace, their country and their people. They agreed to and signed the petition. The two presidents pledged to cooperate and participate with our country to work for the Reunification, and for world peace and the restoration of light. The broadcast announcing this content echoed throughout the global community.


We visited the Ethiopian veterans who fought in the Korean War, delivering, gifts and compensation funds. We appeared in 8 broadcasting programs. The word seminar and meeting were held in South Africa. The word seminar was held at the City hall in the ‘mother city’ of Cape town, and the pastor meeting was held at the national assembly. I met with a pastor who had 350,000 (three hundred and fifty thousand) church members, and a pastor with 40 million church members. They promised they would participate in the work of ‘world peace and restoration of light,’ and will work together in the future. There were a couple more invitations from presidents of other countries, but I postponed the visits until January.

2013년 5월 9일 목요일

2013년 5월 8일 수요일

Such a meeting for peace, Aung San Suu Kyi and Man Hee Lee




Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the opposition National League for Democracy in Myanmar, had a significant meeting with Man Hee Lee, the honorary chairman of MANNAM in Gwang-ju, South,Korea.


On 30th, Jan in 2013, Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at Gwang-ju airport at 7pm and moved directly to Holiday-in Hotel and had a meeting with the honorary chairman, Man Hee Lee with warm welcoming. Especially both are such peace leaders for the whole world.


Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained in custody for 10 of the past 16 years whereas she holds to peaceful struggle with no violence. She won in 1991, was under house arrest and prohibited from traveling to Norway to accept her Prize. Finally she could give an acceptance speech in 21 years after many years of detention, release, house arrest.


Gwang-ju Human Rights award chose her while she was under house arrest. She couldn't visit South Korea for the prize either.


She got free from the house arrest in 2010, she visited Gwang-ju to confer an honorary citizenship of Gwang-ju and won a medal of Gwang-ju Human Rights hosted by Gwang-ju city and 5.18 the Commemorative Foundation.


Man Hee Lee, the honorary chairman of MANNAM has met leaders of Europe, the Americas, Africa for the long-cherished desire of world peace and restoration of light. The leaders who met Man Hee Lee, have empathized with his idea for world peace and promised to join the team to cooperated in harmony.




2013년 5월 7일 화요일

MIYC(MANNAM International Youth Coalition) 10km in their shoes





As I posted about it, there was a walking event for peace "Pledge of Peace" on 21st, April,2013 in Seoul Grand Park.
The event's title was 10km in their shoes, it's young people from all over the world walking 10km to show they long for world peace.
There were a giant number of people from all of the world, even though it was held in South,Korea which could be a small country but very hot potatoes under such tension with North Korea.







The idea has been started by one brilliant person but it has been actualized actually and will, must be invigorated throughout the world in near future.
This is a casual,easy,fun way to get involved in such a serious issue, world peace.
Let's go for a walk in order to act out for peace:)


Here is Kazakhstan's view of this peaceful and fun event.


Internet News - about 10k in Kazakhstan

2013년 5월 6일 월요일

Man Hee Lee, A great peace maker (4)




Man Hee Lee is the honorary chairman of MANNAM Volunteer Association.
He is the anchor of MANNAM Volunteer Association.


Those two representatives held another citizens’ festival to commemorate the 65th Korean Independence Day held August 14-August 15, 2010 at Seoul Olympics Peace Plaza. This event called the Festival of World Peace, Restoration of Light, and Victory, took place in front of the Peace Gate with about 200,000 spectators and several ambassadors from different countries.

This event, still considered as the flower of culture, has been something unprecedented until now. The large-scale palm-printed flag was put up high in the sky again on that day, and a laser show was performed on the background of this flag in the night sky of the event. The laser show portrayed how one person, who became a light, was added unto another light. The motto of the event was also displayed on the flag by the laser, which said, “When light meets light, there is victory.”

The chairman, Lee Man Hee, represented 33 people from various walks of life, and read aloud the declaration from the Korean Unification Monument. It seemed like the sky was going to explode by the hopeful shouts of the spectators. The Korean Unification Declaration Monuments are now standing both at the Goseong Unification Observatory, east frontlines [Korean border], and at the west frontlines, Imjingak.


Furthermore, Mannam hosted another festival to commemorate the 60th Korean War on June 26, 2010, at Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul. Korean War veterans and ambassadors from 60 Korean War participating and supporting countries were invited to cherish the memory of the deceased souls. As part of the preliminary events ahead of the actual commemoration, Mannam volunteers toured 21 locations at which the Korean War Memorial Monuments are situated including the UN Memorial Park in Busan.

The volunteers paid a silent tribute to the former war veterans. At the same time roughly 14,400 elementary school students from 17 different regions in South Korea participated in printing their thumbs to make national flags of the Korean War participating countries. These thumb-printed flags were presented to the ambassadors who were in attendance of the event.

On the day of the event, the ambassadors from 21 countries partook of creating a special bronze sculpture by agreeing to print their hands on it. The sculpture contains the determination from those ambassadors that they oppose warfare and desire to keep peace within this world. It is now being kept in the Yongsan War Memorial Museum, Seoul.


The participants also took part in creating a time capsule during the event. The time capsule contains the messages from the Korean War veterans, the messages of gratitude from the citizens, and the message that pictures the Korea that will have gained peace 10 years later, and so forth. This capsule is scheduled to be opened 10 years later in 2020.

The honorary chairman, Man Hee Lee and the representative, Kim Nam Hee have bound the globe as one and created Mannam International that surpasses borders, races, religions, and societies. They are leading the way of the volunteers worldwide. Who could possibly accuse them of wrongdoing unless insane?

In September 2012, the title of this event  is “The 6th World Peace Restoration of Light Culture and Sports Festival.” It was held in Jamsil Olympic Main Stadium, Seoul. In fact, the gate of the stadium was closed for the last 24 years until last year this festival was held. Twelve flames of fire rose to the sky on the day of the festival, and the 200,000 spectators stored the flames in their eyes and hearts. As all the participants were united as one, the festival was truly a joyous event for both people and for the spirits.

More than any physical battles that kill people’s flesh, spiritual conflicts within religious organizations where people insult and label others as heretics are much cruel. Unlike those existing conflicts, the World Peace Festival truly showed the possibility of peace and the restoration of light. It was a place of unity where everyone held hands together, rising above the walls that used to separate them before.



this is what he did in MANNAM last year, 2012.
The event was just so new and different from other peace event or festivals.
The contents, people and everything was so new and that was so real peace.
There were many news jounalists and reporters from all the world and they got so impressed and have been asking the leaders of MANNAM(the chairman, Nam Hee Kim and the honorary chairman, Man Hee Lee) to come to their countries and have interviews.
Furthermore, they have been coming to South,Korea to see them for world peace.

Well...guys!! World peace is really happening:)