by Main | Mar 25, 2015 | Korean Dream, Local Conferences
A recent forum hosted by the Center for International and Strategic Studies and the Global Peace Foundation highlighted South Korea’s growing role in global humanitarian development. In less than 50 years, South Korea has transitioned from a aid-receiving nation...
by Main | Mar 16, 2015 | Korean Dream, Service and Volunteerism
Koreans in the diaspora suffer from divided families the same as Koreans on the peninsula. We are affected by and engaged in the fate of a divided homeland and often can bring a broader perspective to meeting the challenge of unification. I believe that the diaspora...
by Main | Mar 4, 2015 | 2014, Korean Dream
The prospect of Korean Reunification and the building of a vision of a unified Korea points to the need for an exploration of what it actually means to be Korean. The experience of Koreans in Japan makes for a particularly interesting study of this. Having lived apart...
by Main | Feb 24, 2015 | 2014, Korean Dream
“As I reflect on the memories of my father, I think of the Korean people, who, like the salmon, need to return to their original hometown, the place of their birth to begin the next cycle of life. That place begins with our founding mythology of Dangun and is...
by Main | Feb 23, 2015 | 2014, Korean Dream, Vision in Action
Crossing the Line We stood on the observatory looking across the 38th parallel. Beyond the barbed wire I could see bald hills rolling from one side of the horizon to the other. It had taken us 50 km to bike from Seoul to Imjinkak. It was our simple act for Korean...
by Main | Jan 31, 2015 | 2014, Asia, Korean Dream, Other
“For any real discussion of unification to begin, we, as the Korean people, must identify a common platform through which we can all converge not as a divided people but as Koreans. Before we are to talk about political and economic systems as well as institutions of...
