by Main | Aug 16, 2012 | 2012, Asia, Speeches
The following is an abridged expert from the address given to Ambassador for Peace on August, 11, 2012 in Seoul, Korea. The 2012 Olympics have recently come to a close. There, the Korean people showed their true character to the world. Although this is a nation of...
by Main | Aug 9, 2012 | 2012, Africa, Peacebuilding, Youth Leadership
Molo is a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley. In 2007, it experienced the brunt of the ethnic violence that followed the presidential election. Thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Today in Molo grass grows over the remains of a school that was burnt to...
by Main | Aug 7, 2012 | 2012, Asia, Youth Leadership
The current grandparents and parents of Korea saw their nation torn apart by war. Their generation invested their sweat and blood to build up the nation from its ashes, and shed many tears over the 38th Parallel that carved their families and homeland in half. The...
by Main | Aug 3, 2012 | Asia
In 2010, Korea hosted the G20 Summit as the first non G8 nation. Korea is unique, as President Lee Myung Bak shared, because it has “first-hand experience of economic development within living memory.” In Korea in the 70s, the average family could not afford to put...
by Main | Jun 8, 2012 | 2012, Asia
This week, the Korean people commemorated the patriots who gave their lives for the birth of Korea. In South Korea, the Memorial Day is a day when we Koreans honor our obligation to the nation that we are a part of. This year, I want to challenge us to rethink our...
