ipyg- World Peace Walk

With IPYG- 30,000 participants on the streets towards the world of peace.

The first step towards peace in the World Peace Gate of the Olympic Park

-September 19^th, the participants of WARP, who consist political, religious, women, and youth leaders gathered for world peace, are holding signs and posters with ‘World Peace’ in front of the World Peace Gate in Seoul Olympic Park.

 -The 30,000 participants, which the number reflected the interest of the peace walk, filled the space in front of the World Peace Gate

-Each youth are walking, as they are holding each of their national flag.

-The participants from different nations are walking, as they hope world peace.

“No more war, We want peace!”

On the 19^th of September, the last day of the WARP Summit, many voices were heard for the hope of peace in the World Peace Gate of the Seoul Olympic Park.

The 30,000 representatives from 650 youth group from 139 nations and political, religious, women leaders filled the World Peace Gates in order to participate in the Peace Walk. They expressed their hopes for peace, as they shouted “the beginning of peace” “the beginning of the alliance of religions” and “we are one” and held handmade posters.

Wasim, a representative of Youth Group in Palestine, said in his speech “Palestinian lost their hopes after the long 60 years of conflict” and added “Peace can be achieved through tolerance, understanding, and non-violence instead of armed force. Irvin, a representative of Youth Group in Ukraine who spoke after said “Unfortunately, there have been a conflict with our neighboring nation, Russia recently, but we do not war. We hope that world will be stopped in our generation to give peace as an inheritance”

After the commemoratory speech, three hails were shouted by the participants and started the main peace walk. The high-temperature did not stopped the participants from the peace walk around the World Peace Gate.

Muslim woman’s leader (EIi Warti Maliki), who is an expert on law said, she was able to understand the importance of life as a mother with a child. She continued “If we become one through the signing ceremony and WARP Summit, Peace can be truly achieved.” And “I know that the WARP summit will be the starting point of peace.”

First peace walk was held last May with 30,000 members from 130 nations in the same place. HWPL is committed towards working for peace with youths (IPYG) from the world as they celebrated the first anniversary of the declaration this May with 100,000 members.

There will be IPYG at the place to achieve world peace.

ipyg-Logo of WARP summit made by thousands of people

We attended WARP Summit 2014 in Seoul Olympic Stadium, Korea.
We played Card Section performance that means stopping war and achieving world peace,

The emblem of World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit is made of the members who are wearing in different colored T-shirts of IPYG (International Peace Youth Group) as one of the opening ceremonies on the first day (Sep. 17th).

ipyg-[WARP] MotiveS of WARP summit

ipyg-The 8th Asian Conference on Religion and Peace

Asian Conference on Religion and Peace (ACRP) was held in Song-do, Incheon, South Korea on Aug. 26-29 under the theme ‘Asia is one in harmony’.  At this time, 500 people including religious leaders and members from 25 countries and staff attended the conference. They had a meeting on three sessions: Peace and Reconciliation , Human rights and Happiness, Development and Environment, and the workshop was held on the theme of ‘unification of the Korean peninsula and peace of East Asia’.
In addition, they also adopted a declaration pledging to collaborate for Asia and peace on the Korean peninsula, promoting human rights in Asia and ending the war.
We can see efforts to achieve peace in the world as well as Asia and all over the place in the world.But the war has been happening constantly in the global.What is the answer to achieving true peace in the global village?It is a matter for consideration.

ipyg-17th Asian Games Incheon 2014 – Efforts pursuing Peace of All Mankind

In a few days, a festival for Asian, 17th Asian Games will be held in Incheon. Since it is held in South Korea, attention from all Koreans will be necessary in order to make it a successful event. Now, let's find out the schedule for the games.

The competition will be held from September 19th to October 14th, 2014, for 16 days, and the opening ceremony will be carried out at Incheon Asiad Stadium, South Korea. Approximately 13,000 athletes from 45 countries will participate in total of 36 games including both Olympic and non-olympic items. If you are a fan of sports, you will be interested in all of the games, but I think the most popular ones will definitely be football and baseball. I personally look forward to watching those two as well.

By the way, let me introduce this year's Asian Game mascots, three seal brothers and sisters. 

They are so cute! Barame, Chumuro, Vichuon? What do these mean?

Actually, every name has a meaning. They are not named randomly.  

The first seal, Vichuon means light— it means to shine the light of hope all over the world.  

The second seal named Brame came from a Korean word, Baram which means the wind—to show passion and challenging spirit like the power of wind.  

The last seal, Chumuro's name came from a Korean word Chum, 'dance'—to deliver the beauty of the Korean tradition with amusement through the culture and games of Incheon city.

Now, I am going to introduce Incheon main stadium where the opening ceremony will be held. 

The stadium looks very magnificent and awesome.  If you visit in person, it will be more amazing than in the photo. Incheon Asian Games will take place with the slogan, “Breath of Peace, Future of Asia”.  It is to gather all the diverse cultures, history, tradition, and religions in Asia pursuing peace of all mankind and to make a bright future for Asia as one, through friendship and harmony.  

But, I wonder even though the Asian games hoping for peace is on for the 17 time, why are wars and murders still happening in many countries?

It makes me think 'Can events like Asian games really bring peace to this world?'. 

Maybe there might be other ways that can achieve peace.

So, I was surfing the internet about the Asian Games and then, I found IPYG. This group works for world peace with practical activities. I found out that they’ve held peace walk in Philippines, Korea and other countries. People in the pictures look so bright and happy as if they’ve already gotten true peace in their minds. 

I think that this organization, IPYG could bring about peace in the world.  As one who loves peace, I feel like I am getting more interested in this group and I want to look forward to hearing good news from them. 

ipyg-EPL(English Premier League) Opening

The 2014/15 Premier League season which every soccer fan is waiting for begins on Saturday, August 16th. Seasons run from August to May, with 20 clubs playing 38 matches each.

Many people are waiting for this season with high expectations because on last Sunday, August 10th, the last FA Cup winners Arsenal won the FA Community Shield match against the last Premier League champions Manchester City with score 3-0.

The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is English football's annual match contested between the champions of the previous Premier League season and the holders of the FA Cup at Wembley Stadium. Generally ranked below the FA Cup and League Cup in terms of importance, the fixture is a recognized football Super Cup.

When the season is coming nearer, every team concentrates on the evaluation match of pre-season but reinforcements such as player scout and transfer has not finished yet. Each club is still recruiting players due to the current state of the transfer market. Considering the deadline of the transfer market, even though the season begins, it seems possible for the players to be bought or leave and it might be hard for the prospect of the season to be anticipated.

Liverpool FC is a big investor of this Premier League season. This club paid a huge transfer fee to recruit Adam Lallana, Richard Lee Lambert, Dejan Lovren, Emre Can, Marcovic, Divock Origi and other players. On the other hand, Manchester City FC which has one of the richest owners in the world, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyanl doesn’t show a big movement. Whenever the transfer market is open, Manchester City FC has spent a lot of money on buying players. However, the reason why Manchester City is making careful choices in this season is they broke the regulation which Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) had warned that their transfers should be under UEFA’s new financial fair play regime. So, they accepted a conditional $80 billion fine and were restricted to register their players from 25 to 21. That’s why Manchester City FC recruited players at the minimum.

Based on the state and scouting progress of each team, there are five strong favorites to win; Chelsea FC, Manchester City FC, Arsenal FC, Liverpool FC, and Manchester United FC.

I’m really looking forward to the matches, and I personally hope Chelsea FC win the championship in this season.

ipyg-International Day of Peace - LOVE & PEACE

Do you know what day September 21 is? It is International Day of Peace set by UN.It was set for wishing all the wars and violence in the world to be stopped. 

An international peace movement, ‘PEACE ONE DAY’ is held annually for spreading International Day of Peace, then making all violence in the world stopped and being united as one with forgiveness and reconciliation. On this day last year, Peace Cup Game which has a message of peace was held internationally in the places which represent each country or peace. In Korea, it was held in Imjingak Pyeonghwanuri Park (Imjingak Unification Park) and War Memorial of Korea which are the meaningful places representing the only divided country in the world, Korea. However, do you know so far the only 10% of world population remembers such messages of peace?

So we, IPYG (International Peace Youth Group), are working for letting more people know the importance of peace. 
IPYG is working with a mind that wants to stop all the violence in this world that wars and conflicts are continuously happened and make a peaceful world with forgiveness and reconciliation. IPYG is an organization which all the people around the world are gathered as one and work for peace through the peace walk events. After I got to know this organization and how it has been working for peace, I was shameful that I was just saying, I want peace and a peaceful world. But now, I became a member of IPYG and put it into practice for making peace can be really achieved. I think it would be the shortcut to world peace to put our minds and acts for loving peace into practice. :)