English man in Korea.

There's a word "Heung" in Korean.
I can't pick up its meaning exactly, though it is described as fun, pleasure, joy and excitement in dictionary.
You can feel it a little bit after seeing this movie clip.
My friends express it as a heart flutter come near to fun and joyful moment.
In my opinion, not erupted but full in the heart.
Umn. Both of them are similiar in describe.
Anyway, It's good feeling! XD

Recommend you to come Korea!

Guess what this list is!

2011 Leymah Gbowee,

Liberian Peace activist, leading a women's peace movement.

It helped to bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003

2011 Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman

Yemeni journalist, human-rights activist and senior member of the Al-Islah political party. 

Leading the group "Women Journalists Without Chains." co-built in 2005

2011 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
24th and current President of Liberia.

2010 Liu Xiaobo
Chinese literary critic. and writer, professor, human-rights activist.

2009 Barack Obama
Current President of USA

2008 Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari
10th President of Finland

2007 Al Gore
Former vice president, Environmental activist

 2006 Muhammad Yunus
 Bangladesh banker, the founder of Grameen Bank. Professor.

2005 Mohamed ElBaradei,
General secretary of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

2004 Wangari Muta Maathai
Kenyan environmental activist.

2003 Shirin Ebadi
Founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.

2002 Jimmy Carter.
39th President of USA

2001 UN & Kofi Annan, the general secretary of UN. (corecipient)

2000 Dae Jung Kim
Former President of South Korea

1999 Medicin Sans Frontiers (MSF)

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As you could have guessed, it's the list of recipient of Nobel Peace Prize for 10 years.
Among them behaved unbefitting of a recipient of Nobel Peace Prize.
But I can imagine the endeavor and accomplishment for peace on their subject.
For that reason, we work together for world peace. It can not made just by an expert.

Nobel Peace Prize started from 1901. It's been over 100 years since then.
But there's still pain, conflict and war in this world.
In addition, Adolf Hitler, Iosif V. Stalin, Benito Mussolini who are famous for dictatorship were nominated. Even more familiar example, Chun Doo Hwan, former president of South Korea, who seized power through military coup, also nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

Don't know the standard, and can't see the fruit of award.
No change between before and after.

It would be the fastest and easiest way of world Peace, the Creator destroy and make the world again.

What is the most precious thing to you?

Suppose you have to leave your home and there's 1 minute left,

You can take just only 1 item.

What will you take?

Even though there's plenty of time left, you might not be able to choose one from.

May, Syrian refugee in Iraq, had brought her bracelet.

But she told the bracelet is not the first, she had wanted to have her doll Nancy back, left on her bed on the night of evacuation.

                                                                              ⓒUNHCR/B.Sokol

Mimi Fowler, an English girl who live in Thailand, saw a story from UNHCR web site.

And she thought of Mimi, and she broken her piggy bank and bought a new doll not used one.

And the Doll was sent from Thailand.

Finally got to Mimi at the camp of Syrian refugee in Iraq.

                                                                   ⓒUNHCR / N.Prokopchuk

Refugees from their ordinary life, they might not know how precious the thing and the people they love.

But now, they lose all of that at once, and miss it all.

Strange to say, we all can be refugee.

We have to keep peace in that thought.

And we all can be a peace advocate in our direct life.

Just like Mimi, only 5 years old girl, sent a doll of peace and love by breaking her piggy bank.

Showing a grave. - We ought to remember the sacrifice.

This is kind of embarrassing, Korea has third position in the restaurant in foreign countries. At least Turkey!
The first, Japan, China after, and the last Korea.
Japanese order liquor during a meal, it helps sales.
And Chinese are openhanded so they order a lot.
But Korean drink water at table, besides, they bring their own food for their meal, like Kim chi, smells distinctively.

On a day, waiter made Korean to sit the closest place to food in buffet.
So the guide thought it was unlikely and he asked.
The Turk waiter told this.

The waiter's grandfather is a veteran of the Korean war.
He passed away in the war, and he has buried at UN memorial park.
I have known during his saying, Turkey believe in Muslim.
Muslim faith cannot allow a grave, once it have buried.
He wanted to see his grandfather's grave he asked tourist from Busan, Korea to take a picture of his grandfather's grave.
One tourist had sent a picture, and he thought what can he do to express his gratitude.
So he secured the closest seat for Korea.

Turkey called as a blood brother with Korea.
Turkey sent lots of troop voluntarily in the second place to USA.
Korea have to remember the sacrifice of whom passed away for the freedom and peace in Korea.
Last month, Man hee Lee laid a wreath at UN memorial park on 25th May as they began the 1st Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of World Peace.
He was a veteran of the Korean war, and he knows all of the tragedy of war.
He never forget the sacrifice and he achieve world peace aggressively.
So it was on a very tight schedule, he laid flowers at UN memorial park.

We, enjoying freedom through the sacrifice of them, ought to remember their sacrifice and not to leave war for our future generations.

* Picture from this site, http://unmck.or.kr/kor_un_02_1.php#

ICD advertise a summit conducted by Man Hee Lee.

Last april, I saw a news of ICD conference in Rome, Italy.
There were 400 people of politician, and religious leaders from all over world.
A few of them made a speech for 30 min' about world peace and the conference lasted 3 hours.
At there, Man hee Lee announced secondly.
He showed a movie clip of Peace Walk hosted by International Peace Youth Group, introduced the meaning of that peace walk and process of peace agreement in Mindanao.
He called upon participants to inherit peaceful heritage to future generations.
So appealing, because of showing the real output!

And I visited ICD website today, I could see him, Man Hee Lee!

There will be a summit for World Peace in Korea.
The topic is as written "Inter-faith Dialogue & International Political Discussion towards World Peace."
As he mentioned so far, religions have take a big part of conflict.
So interfaith dialogue is important to achievement world peace.
Maybe, this kind of thinking,
Everyone might can do. But nobody can make it real. His message is simple and clear.

I look forward to take part in the summit in Korea!
This is the teaser about the summit.
http://vimeo.com/96977519

The Great Dictator

Have you seen the film, "The Great Dictator"?

Charlie Chaplin had directed, written, and produced it.

If you want to know about it, click here, 

>> The thing about "The Great Dictator"

I have seen the short movie clip, received from my friend, showing a speech.

I want to share the movie clip.

Here's the text speech.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. 
That's not my business.
I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.
I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. 
We all want to help one another.
Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
We don't want to hate and despise one another.
In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone.
The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.
We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in.
Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness. hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. 
Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together.
The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for 
universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair.
The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men!

You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; 
the unloved and the unnatural.
Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Did you have touched by this speech? I did.
Let's not fight for useless war for the benefit for some. 
As Man Hee Lee said, who can compensate the life of youth, sacrificed in war?
All of youth on this good earth, don't surrender to one commanding us to go to enter the war.

World Refugee Day.

The United Nations is warning of a massive flood of refugees will be appeared by the radical Iraq Sunni militant group attacked in Iraq.
According to UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, about 300 thousand refugees evacuated from Mosul where Islamic State in Iraq (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) occupied

Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said "If it will be a protracted conflict, I think it will be inevitable to have again a meaningful ouftlow of refugees."

Today is World Refugee Day, 20th June.

Refugee is a person who flees their home country due to a "well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion." defined by UN.

United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights' Article 2: " Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status."
Though this declaration is far from reality, we have to defend this.
Refugee is a person.
Human right is more important than the country's.
We are able to go anywhere if it threatened our dignity and the life from where I have lived.
Everyone could been refugee.
I hope all the refugees treated as a human not a criminal.