“My Wish, Culture of Peace.”
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok on Monday convened the Lee Jae-myung government’s first National Patriots and Veterans Committee meeting at the Government Complex Seoul. The committee finalized a plan to carry out commemorative projects for the UNESCO commemoration year marking the 150th anniversary of Kim Gu’s birth and announced the official slogan.
The government chose “My Wish, Culture of Peace” to underscore what it called the universal value of Baekbeom’s ideas.
The government said it will continue to refine and develop the plan through communication and cooperation with the Baekbeom Kim Gu Memorial Museum, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, the Liberation Association, the cultural sector and young people.
It set three main directions for the projects: “reexamining values,” “unity and solidarity,” and “remembrance and succession,” and said it will pursue commemorative programs under subthemes aligned with those goals.
Planned flagship events include an international academic conference in July and August, a joint academic conference by the Baekbeom Kim Gu Memorial Museum and the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in October, Gwanghwamun Culture Week in August, and the Baekbeom Award ceremony in August.
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