The 9th Kim Ok-Gil Memorial Lecture Held
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The 9th Kim Ok-Gil Memorial Lecture Held : ‘Global Peace and the Future of Korean Peninsula’
Ewha Womans University held the 9th Kim Ok-Gil Memorial Lecture, ‘Global Peace and the Future of Korean Peninsula’ at LG Convention Hall on November 2nd. This commemorative lecture is to pay a tribute to the memory of Dr. Kim Ok-Gill who was the eighth president of Ewha and devoted her whole life for women's education and contributed to the common good of the Korean people.
The host of the ceremony, Research Institute for Social Science invited Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for key note speech. She said, "It is an honor to participate in the memorial lecture of such a woman who has devoted her life to enhance women and Korean."
Menchu, who has also devoted her life for the rights of women said, "We must earn equality in opportunity that will allow us to practice rights before we talk about human rights. 'Peace' is not an abstract dream. Strong will of individauls and the nation will make it come true."
Rigoberta Menchu is an indigenous Guatemalan, of Maya ethnic group. Menchu has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War(1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country.
Menchu said, "I myself lived a life of being raised in hunger and lost my family from the violence of dictatorship. However, I thought that I should not live on in sorrow. We must believe in ourselves. All the young generation of today need positive prospective about our future."
The following session after the lecture of Menchu was a series of lectures. Cho Key-sung, the chairman of Medical Peace Foundation, gave a lecture on 'Medical Mission for the Peace and Prosperity of Developing Countries'. Kamppeter Werner, the Representative of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Korea Cooperation Office, gave a lecture on 'Conceivable Lessons from the German Unification'. Park Myung Kyu, the director of Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, gave a lecture on 'Peace and Unification from the Multicultural Perspective' and Ham Kwangbok, the director of Korea DMZ Research Center, gave a lecture on 'The Multi-cultural Attribute of the DMZ and Eco-political Approach to the DMZ'.
The host of the ceremony, Research Institute for Social Science invited Rigoberta Menchu, the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for key note speech. She said, "It is an honor to participate in the memorial lecture of such a woman who has devoted her life to enhance women and Korean."
Menchu, who has also devoted her life for the rights of women said, "We must earn equality in opportunity that will allow us to practice rights before we talk about human rights. 'Peace' is not an abstract dream. Strong will of individauls and the nation will make it come true."
Rigoberta Menchu is an indigenous Guatemalan, of Maya ethnic group. Menchu has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War(1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country.
Menchu said, "I myself lived a life of being raised in hunger and lost my family from the violence of dictatorship. However, I thought that I should not live on in sorrow. We must believe in ourselves. All the young generation of today need positive prospective about our future."
The following session after the lecture of Menchu was a series of lectures. Cho Key-sung, the chairman of Medical Peace Foundation, gave a lecture on 'Medical Mission for the Peace and Prosperity of Developing Countries'. Kamppeter Werner, the Representative of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Korea Cooperation Office, gave a lecture on 'Conceivable Lessons from the German Unification'. Park Myung Kyu, the director of Institute for Peace and Unification Studies at Seoul National University, gave a lecture on 'Peace and Unification from the Multicultural Perspective' and Ham Kwangbok, the director of Korea DMZ Research Center, gave a lecture on 'The Multi-cultural Attribute of the DMZ and Eco-political Approach to the DMZ'.