Minister Chung Dong Young Delivers a Special Lecture at Jeonju High School on the Occasion of Peace and Unification Education Week

Minister Communicates with the Younger Generation as a "One-Day Peace and Unification Teacher"

Minister Chung Dong Young Delivers a Special Lecture at Jeonju High School on the Occasion of Peace and Unification Education Week (May 29)

[Related National Agenda] 117. Implementation of Peace and Unification Policy on the Korean Peninsula with the Public
117-3. Promotion of Peace, Unification, and Democracy Education

On May 29, to mark the 14th Peace and Unification Education Week (May 25-31), Minister of Unification Chung Dong Young visited his alma mater, Jeonju High School, and directly communicated with the younger generation as a one-day peace and unification teacher.

Prior to the special lecture, Minister Chung held a tea meeting with school and office of education officials, including Jang Kyung Ho, Principal of Jeonju High School, and Chae Seon Young, Superintendent of the Jeonbuk State Jeonju Office of Education. He encouraged the attendees, who are key deliverers of peace and unification education, and listened to opinions from the field.

*Minister Chung Dong Young graduated from Jeonju High School (opened in 1919) as a member of its 48th graduating class.

Minister Chung delivered a special lecture to first-year students at Jeonju High School on the value of a peaceful Korean Peninsula, under the theme of "A Korean Peninsula of Peaceful Coexistence and Shared Growth."

In the lecture, he emphasized that ending hostility and confrontation between the South and the North and moving toward a new relationship of peaceful coexistence is a pressing challenge of our time. He explained that peace on the Korean Peninsula is becoming more important than ever amid the unstable international situation.

To this end, he stated that the South Korean government would consistently continue measures to practice peace preemptively while making efforts to restore trust and ease tensions between the South and the North.

In addition, he urged the future generation to become the leaders of a new era on the Korean Peninsula of peaceful coexistence and shared growth, based on free imagination, extensive reading, broad travel experiences, and positive thinking.

Furthermore, Minister Chung expressed his hope that the vision of turning the current of Korean Peninsula history from hostility and confrontation to reconciliation and cooperation would begin here today.