KOREAN DREAM:
A Vision for a Unified Korea
Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon has presented an innovative, vision-driven way forward on the Korean peninsula. His approach has inspired a cross-sectoral, global movement to advance the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.
Embracing the Enemy as Family: Diplomacy through Moral Authority
Many Koreans, especially those from the older generation, have told me that my father was truly the pioneer of opening relations between the North and South. I have heard stories of my father addressing the North Korean leadership at Mansudae, their National Assembly....
“Korean Dream” Song Seeks Common Ground Between North and South Korea
For any real discussion of unification to begin, we, the Korean people, must identify a common platform through which we can all converge, not as a divided people but as Koreans....
One Korea Camp Inspires International Support for Korean Reunification
“One dream! One Korea! One World!” Kyungbok Palace in Seoul, Korea was in for a stirring surprise when forty students from thirty different nationalities showed up on palace grounds dressed in traditional Korean garb last May to share a message of hope for...
March 1, 1919 Korean Declaration of Independence Illuminates a Dream for a United and Flourishing Korean People
In a time of rising tensions on the Korean peninsula that is feeding the threat of nuclear conflict, the Korean Declaration of Independence may serve as a point of unity and way forward. The dream elucidated in the declaration issued on March 1, 1919 gave exigency and...
Reuniting the Korean Family through a United Vision to Serve the World
The chorus of the “One Dream, One Korea” song written during the launch of the One Korea Campaign in 2015 sings “we want to be a family again.” This theme is not a new one and has always been a part of the push for Korean reunification throughout the last 70 years of...
Civic Engagement and the 2017 Korean Presidential Election
In the last few years, South Koreans have endured a painful process to deal with great loss, anger and soul-searching on a national scale. The people grappled with the tragedy of the sinking of the Sewol ferry as well as issues such as stifled growth due to crony...
Grandmother’s Jang and the Korean Virtue of Jeong Seong
“The extended family is where true sincerity is learned, as embodied in the concept of jeong seong. This ideal of sincerity permeates every aspect of daily life, from the making of clothes, to food, to...
North Korean Missile Crisis and the Path to Peace
The recent tensions caused by threats of missile tests by North Korea and joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, coupled with the heated debates between South Korean presidential candidates, have once again brought the issue of the divided Korean people to the...
What is Hongik Ingan?
Hongik Ingan is an ideal articulated at the time of the founding of the Korean nation. The origin of this idea is recorded in history as part and parcel of the story of Dangun, the first ancestor of all Korean people. It contains an exceptional aspiration that the...
Bridging the Human Family through Music
The opening words of Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon, Chairman of the Global Peace Foundation, shook the Mall of Asia Arena: “Are you ready to Dream? Are you ready to dream the greatest dream of all?” He was greeted by 15,000 K-pop fans screaming a resounding, “YES!” The...
In the News: Civic committee launches unification song at Manila concert
NGOs, music production teams, and K-Pop artists collaborated to spread the message of world peace starting with the unification of the Korean peninsula in the One Korea Global Peace Concert held in Manila, Philippines this March. Songwriter Hall-of-Fame production...
The Power of Music and Getting to Peace
“Be great at what you do. If you are great then people will ask, ‘What is it about you that makes you different?’ And that will change the world.” –Terry Lewis Five-time Grammy award-winning production team, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, brought a voice of encouragement...
Book Reviews
Today, one of the hotspots in the world is the unending unrest between North and South Korea. As someone who believes that Iran’s nuclear bomb capabilities are being tested and upgraded in North Korea, this book approaches the resolution of the Korean conflict and the challenges they face for the unification of these two countries and one people. Therefore, I encourage readers to explore Korean Dream by Dr. Moon. It gives a cogent path to peace for the Koreas and the world.
The author understands that the unification of the Korean peninsula with Hongik Ingan as its ideology is not only desired by the nation but also linked with the future of the world… [The] ideology of Hongik Ingan and the Korean peninsula on which it would be manifest would be the ultimate factor in stabilizing the Northeast Asia region and a factor in the actualization of world peace… Individuals, authorities of unification policies in the government, and researchers of unification challenges in academic circles must read Korean Dream.