by Main | Oct 8, 2015 | 2015, Korean Dream, Peacebuilding, Speeches, Video
Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, Founder and Chairman of the Global Peace Foundation, speaks at the Global Peace Economic Forum in Seoul, Korea, on October 8th, 2015. The speech stresses the need for economic reform in South Korea as a key component for creating a re-unified Korean...
by Main | Sep 14, 2015 | Korean Dream
As Korea prepared to celebrate the 70th year of the end of WWII, there was much speculation over the content of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s August 15th message. China’s foreign ministry released a statement that it expected a “clear and correct message about...
by Main | Aug 25, 2015 | Korean Dream
The Korean people regularly display a strong sense of shared history, tradition, and national pride to the world. After failing to win a single game in five World Cups, in 2002 several million people poured into the streets of Seoul to watch the FIFA games. After the...
by Main | Aug 14, 2015 | Korean Dream
For those familiar with modern Korean history there are clear tensions in celebrating 70 years of Korean independence from Japanese colonial rule. The most uncomfortable fact is that while Korea is free of foreign rule, it remains divided, and Koreans in the North...
by Main | Aug 12, 2015 | Korean Dream
This year marks the 70th year of Korea’s independence, but also its division. As Koreans contemplate the challenges of unification and the “reconstruction” of one nation, there are some lessons perhaps that can be offered by the leadership of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham...
by Main | Jul 30, 2015 | Korean Dream
The composer of the original Korean unification song, Ahn Byung-Won, lamented in a interview that, “We shouldn’t sing this song any more. When we wrote this song, we thought unification would come sooner.” John Cho reported this quote on his piece in the Korea Herald,...
