‘World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit 2014’ - Day 1-Event

‘World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit 2014’ was held in Seoul, the last remaining country in the world in separation with North and South. It was great honor for me to participate it as one of youth wishing for the world peace more than anyone. The official events were lied in three consecutive days and the first one was held in ’88 Olympic Stadium’ in Jamsil, where Seoul Olympic game had once been held in 1988. In this huge stadium, more than 100,000 people gathered together and shouted world peace together. That filled me up in my heart and mind with great hope of completion and achievement of true peace in this globe.

As the countdown for the ‘Day 1-Event’ began, all religious people and the politicians from different countries strode and marched altogether. It was extreme beauty for me seeing them appeared in harmony, and such transcendence of borders, religions, ethnicities, and genders for the world peace seemed to make it possible.

Soon after, an astounding performance has caught the eyes of every single people in the stadium. A card section performance was that amazement performed by 12,000 youths. Its unbelievably impact message was, though quite short, powerful enough to put everyone in recognition of the importance of the world peace during this generation. With its frame by frame message, the spectators came to know how helpless and powerless a government would be for the countless number of innocent sacrifices of youths in the crisis of wars. Those youths whose lives were supposed to bloom with talent and dream but ended to death are one of our families, friends and colleagues.

War must be terminated and ended and the completion and achievement of peace for all mankind must be taken in place.

Followed, congratulatory addresses of prominent figure guests instilled the genuine definition of peace in us. Then, beautiful performances, including 'Arirang', a Korean traditional folk song, were received much attention from the spectators in the stadium.

The chairman of Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL) addressed and urged why we all need to be together and unified to one through WARP Summit in such necessities. Our world where full of screaming, crying and agonizing in the wars can now see the certainty of unprecedented peace in human history.

As for the last event, all the people in participation gathered and went around together in the field, singing ’88 Olympic Theme Song, ‘Hand in Hand’. Such harmonized and unified scene of them impressed and actually touch me deeply.

For the completion of peace, greed in people needs to be abandoned, mutual respect should be taken in place and all must be the put together in one purpose; peace. With this beautiful peace movement as a great and powerful tool, our dauntless courage and endless effort should be paid in order to achieve peace in ultimacy.