Refugee and South Korean college students
learn and share peace and prepare for unification, ‘Peace School on a Street’.
18 South Korean students that have been
studying about peace for the last four months went on a 2night 3days (November
11th-15th) trip to the peaceful island of Jeju.
A Friendly Trip that
Thinks of the Region
Jeju, a place
which just hearing the name makes one’s heart flutter, is an island of peace that
many peace activists from all over the world have come to visit because of the
recent Gangjeong village naval base construction that has become an
international issue. With the question ‘what can we do to find peace’ in mind,
we went on a fair travel. Fair travel, also called friendly travel, is not a
travel that just includes eating and having fun, but it is also a trip where
everyone respects the region, recognizes diversity, economy is revived, social
problems are solved, and nature is preserved.
North
and South Korean college students who went on the Jeju-do peace trip ate at
restaurants in which the profit are all returned back to the local residents.
They had the opportunity to go to a pesticide-free tangerine plantation, walk
up and down the Geomunoreum Lava Tube System, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and
visit the Gangjeong village and meet peace.
Meeting Peace with
the Heart
What
is peace? Gangjeong village that had been going through much conflict since
2007 over the naval base construction showed us and made us feel the peace that
was in our mind. As the naval case construction started in the ocean in front
of Gangjeong village, which is tourist attraction, it led to many conflicts.
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