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?

MANNAM STORY _ International Day of Peace

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When Light meets Light there is Victory

This blog will save my memory with MANNAM.

As one of MANNAM members (MANNAMERs), I will post about my life with MANNAM.

 

 

 

International Day of Peace

 

Do you know that there is a day to celebrate peace itself?

Few years ago, when I was searching Internet, I found the ‘International Day of Peace’. International Day of Peace was made by United Nations (UN) and the date is third Tuesday of every September. The dictionary says that International Day of Peace is ‘the day that there is no war or conflict in the world, which is made by UN’. Although almost everyone who is not interested in peace could not even notice the day itself, but I was surprised that there is a special day for peace. Now, International Day of Peace is just for one day. However, I hope the day would last and change into the week. So we can celebrate not the International Day of Peace but the International Week of peace or the International Month of Peace! How great it would be if that happens!

 

  Recognition of the peace is still in its infancy. But I believe that someday, everybody would come and celebrate the eternal peace in the world! No war, no fight, no conflict is not that difficult one. If we try to understand each other and yield to each other, it would be easy to achieve the world peace!

 

 For more information of the International Day of Peace, I found the explanation from the Wikipedia.

The International Day of Peace, sometimes unofficially known as World Peace Day, is observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access. The day was first celebrated in 1982, and is kept by many nations, political groups, military groups, and peoples.

To inaugurate the day, the "Peace Bell" is rung at UN Headquarters (in New York City). The bell is cast from coins donated by children from all continents except Africa, and was a gift from the United Nations Association of Japan, as "a reminder of the human cost of war"; the inscription on its side reads, "Long live absolute world peace".

Individuals can also wear White Peace Doves to commemorate the International Day of Peace, which are badges in the shape of a dove produced by a non-profit organization in Canada.

 

 

  I hope everyone get to know the International Day of Peace and celebrate in their own ways.

Peace is not that far from us. Take it easy and just try to think about it!