[Gwangju MANNAM International] MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10km in their shoes "video"

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MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10km in their shoes in Seoul, Korea

finally,
Gwangju own MIYC 10km video was made!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIwZBdGS6Sk

 

My computer did not work ㅠㅠ

I can't upload directly ㅡㅜ

 

 

 

P.S
in the video,
you can find the most beautiful, active and pretty girl,
Yes,
that's me :P

MANNAM STORY _ MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace! (4)

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Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (4)

4 postings about one topic, wow, it's really long! Isn’t it?
Today will be the last day of MIYC.

The last topic is the '10km in their shoes'!!!

What's the purpose of the 10km? Why MIYC prepare 10km?

Actually, this 10km event is not the first 10km event. Last April we also had 10km event in all branches. You can follow this YouTube and can watch the 10km of Gwangju MANNAM.
→ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23NoEX525-Q

On that day, not only Gwangju but also other 12 branches had 10km events at the same time.

Then, why the 10km event was made and what is the aim of the 10km event?

 10km in their shoes was an awareness campaign. Holding the flags of the damaged countries (by war), people shouted the end of the war and world peace out. Through walking, participants were aware of the crises that the world faces now. The crises can be the war, climate change, disaster and dictatorship. (Especially this 10km event was made to oppose to the war.) It was a soundless movement toward the world. All participants walked wishing to show their strong supports to the anti-war movement and those who suffer from the ongoing war. 10km in their shoes was the starting point of MIYC. Through 10km event, MIYC began to act as a representative of many youth organizations working for world peace. It was a great step forward visible world peace.

 'Is it possible to achieve world peace just by walking 10km?' People may think like this. However, if you think about the history again then you can find that all the victories of freedom were made through the revolution. Long time ago, people had to bleed during the revolution, but now people don't need to bleed (ok, I admit nowadays also people sometimes (or often) bleed for the freedom). Thanks to the development of media thing, we can easily share our hopes and thoughts with the people who have the same thoughts with us. In this case, people can gather through Internet (or SNS') and can move together even though they are apart from each other. Nowadays, it is possible to go revolution without blood.

 10km event does not end as one day event. I don’t know the exact day but I heard that soon, 10km events will be held in all over the world. It started from one small country, Korea, but it will spread to the world. One candle can find another candle in the darkness. I think 10km event in Korea is the first lighted candle. And the light of the first candle spreads to the other ‘hidden’ candles. One light looks very small and people may be able to recognize it, but if the lights are put together, people can’t ignore it. It is the characteristic of the light. I think all the movements for world peace are like the candle.

 

It is the badge of MIYC.

We can get this badge after finishing the 10km (3km for us:P).

The mark in the middle is 'thumb prints!'

 Don’t ignore the one weak candle.

 It can burn the entire world.

MANNAM STORY _ MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace! (3)

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Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (3)

Last two posts were about my personal experience with MIYC 10 km. Today, I will post about the MIYC itself. What it is and what is the purpose of MIYC !

What is MIYC?

MIYC is the acronym of MANNAM International Youth Coalition. 

MIYC site says that
  "MIYC was formed from groups of young people coming together with the vision and determination to unite people across borders, cultures, languages and races. MIYC aims to foster a spirit of appreciation and respect for the diversity of humanity, as well as for all individuals that create that diversity."

What is the aim of MIYC?

 MIYC will organize some projects throughout the year and organizations that decided to join the movement of MIYC will engage in those projects. For those projects, there will be a youth summits and summit's aim is to develop practical and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing us in the pursuit of peace. Nobody wants war/fight. Everybody wants peace. Then why the peace couldn't be obtained until now? Because we coulnd't bring our power together. MIYC's role is to combine people's power into one way. One by one, all youth organization will join the movement of MIYC and MIYC will become more powerful. Each of us is very small, but if we put together, we can be a big power.

In my humble opinion, MIYC is a very ideal coalition. MIYC is not just a group, it is a 'coalition'. You may know the clear meaning of coalition. A coalition is 'a group consisting of people from different political or social groups who are co-operating to achieve a particular aim. MIYC was made only to cooperate with each other aiming to world peace. That's all. Nobody can say that it is for specific one group. It can not be like that MIYC is just a good way to gather together in the name of world peace. I hope MIYC spread more further than now and through MIYC world peace would be made.

 

 

 

 

 

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MANNAM STORY _ MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace! (2)

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Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (2)

 

  After finishing the 3km, We (Gwangju MANNAM) went to the zoo. The zoo is really big!

In the zoo, we did scavenger hunt! Each team has 2 big missions. First one is to find 5 things about the peace in the zoo. 1. fight/war 2. reconciliation 3. harmony 4. peace 5.... I can't remember!!!!!! Anyway, there are 5 things that we had to take picture of it. Second one is to bring 'Cloud'.  Our team was divided into 2 teams and my team's mission was to find fight/war, reconciliation and harmony. We didn't have much time so we only could go gorilla and chimpanzee area.... All we took is... gorilla and chimpanzee !!!!! 

 

Can you imagine what it means?

It is a 'peace'.

Why?

If you look carefully the monkey,
then you can see that the monkey carries her (or his!?!?!?) baby on her chest.
Mother and baby, it is a 'peace'

 

  You may think that how it can be the peace but it is peace. As I wrote in MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace (1), peace is not that difficult concept. I think first thing that we have to do to achieve world peace is to make people think 'peace' in easy way. If people start to use 'peace' easily, then the burden of the 'world peace' will be less. Let's start one by one.

 

 

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MANNAM STORY _ MIYC, 10km in their shoes, pledge of peace! (1)

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Today's topic: MIYC, Pledge of Peace, 10 km in their shoes (1)

 Last Sunday, I went to Seoul with Gwangju MANNAM members. For what? To participate in the big peace event named 'Pledge of Peace, 10km in their shoes'. This event was hosted by MIYC (MANNAM International Youth Coalition). Many youth groups who are wishing for 'peace' gathered together in Seoul Grand Park and had a meaningful time. Participants were supposed to walk 10 km, but because we are from Gwangju (it takes about 4 hours to go to Seoul from Gwangju ;<) we walked only 3 km. The weather was so good and cherry blossoms were in full bloom. It was really good to walk while thinking the world peace.

 In Seoul Grand Park, there were many many people (foreigners and Korean), and I was happy that it means many people are thinking about the peace. When I heard this event, I doubted that how many people are thinking about the world peace and come to the event? However it turned out that many people are thinking about the world peace and try to do something for the world peace. It made me really really happy.

 Many people think that 'peace' is difficult thing. The friends who went to Seoul with me also thought that 'peace' is a difficult concept. It is because they never thought about the peace before. Same with me, before joining MANNAM, I also thought that world peace is a good but vague thing. (Thanks MANNAM!) For me, I think that this event was really meaningful in making people think about the 'peace' in light concept.




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MANNAM CULTURE _ Famous Sayings about the War

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Today’s topic: famous saying about war

  There are many sayings about the war. Today, I pick up the most impressive sayings for me.

 

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." - Francois Fenelon

"If we don't end war, war will end us." - H. G. Wells

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The soldier above all others pray for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - General Douglas MacArthur

"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending." - Abraham Lincoln

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die." - Herbert Hoover

"There never was a good war or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin

"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons." - Croesus

"We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle

"The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." - Gen. William C. Westmoreland

 

  Actually, it is not pleasing to find famous sayings about the war because it means that there have been many wars. Many people want the peaceful world without war. However many people think that it is impossible to stop war. Many people have been talking about the horrors of war but they did nothing to stop the war. I understand that it is very difficult to do something for the anti-war because they think that it needs really big thing. But actually it is not. Anti-war movement is not that difficult. Just start doing twitter and face book. Join the club and tweets about your sincere mind about anti-war. That is the first step forward world peace. I started my first step by joining MANNAM. Second step is twitter and third step is face book. For me it is also difficult and a little bit awkward because I’ve never done this before. I tried to change myself.

  How about you? Do you try to change yourself to change the world or just stop there?

 

MANNAM CULTURE _ Ban Ki-moon

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  As the situation (in Korea) is gettting worse, people started to focus on the reaction of the UN.
Many people would know about the UN for several ways. Today, I want to talk about the head of the UN, Ban Ki-moon.


BAN KI MOON

  Ban Ki-moon is the 8^th and current Secretary General of United Nations. He was born in a small farming village in South Korea, in June 1944. When he was in high school, he won essay contest sponsored by the Red Cross, and he’s got a chance to go to America and met U.S. President John F. Kennedy. That meeting made him to decide to become a diplomat. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1970 and become the foreign minister in 2004. And finally in 2006 he was elected as a 8^th Secretary General of UN. His main works are in climate change, nuclear nonproliferation, 8 Millennium Development goals. He is not that active politic person like Kofi Annan. But he was evaluated that he dealt with sensitive issues well among strong countries. Naturally, he was reelected as a UN Secretary General.

(When I was young, my dream was to become the first Korean UN Secretary General. But when I was middle school student, he (Ban Ki-moon) became the first Korean UN Secretary General, and I had to give up my dream. ;’( )

Anyway, I’m very proud of him as a Korean. Of course there are some points that he is criticized at but in my opinion, he is doing very well. As the world becomes smaller, there are more and more complicated and sensitive problems among the countries. People need specific organization to deal with those problems and UN is made. The lists that UN has to deal with are really long these days. From the war prevention to nature disaster prevention, every world is connected with each other complicatedly and naturally the role of UN as an intermediary is getting bigger. UN is an international organization and many people followed the direction of UN.

The thing that I hope is that MANNAM becomes like the UN. Concerning about peace, I hope MANNAM becomes the most effective association because MANNAM is non political association. Purely, MANNAM acts for the world peace. It is not related any profit of specific country.

I hope many people are interested in world peace without any cost. The cost of world peace is world peace itself. Don’t you think soJ?