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NEW [16.10.31] 'Ajou Great Lecture for Unification and Sharing' is held

  • 2016-11-07
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'Ajou Great Lecture for Unification and Sharing' is held

[16.10.31]


'Ajou Great Lecture for Unification and Sharing,' which was co-hosted by Ajou University and the Unishare Foundation (Chairman Byeong Hun Ahn), was held on October 29th in Yulgok Hall's Video Conference Room at the University. The University organized the lecture to enhance understanding of and interest in unification among local university students and citizens.


The lecture consisted of three segments. In the first segment, BOAZ Film CEO Sang Mee Choo gave a lecture entitled 'Culture Opens the Way for Unification.' She said, "I am working on a documentary that follows North Korean orphans who went to Eastern Europe after the Korean War," adding, "I would like to present a blueprint on how our society should embrace North Korea after unification."


In the second segment, Jae In Shin, the former President of the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, gave a lecture entitled 'Understanding North Korea's Nuclear Programs.' He said, "North Korea's nuclear programs pose military threats to South Korea, undermine economic development, and divide public opinion in the South, and negatively influence the unification of the Korean Peninsula." He added, "Pyongyang's nuclear programs do no good at all, since Seoul is losing the initiative to its neighbors in diplomatic and economic issues."


The last segment, entitled 'Unification Is the Jackpot Only When Prepared,' was delivered by former deputy unification minister Yang Ho Hong. He said, "Since the international community will not accept a unified Korea with nuclear arms, Pyongyang's nuclear weapons are in the way of unification," adding, "German unification was possible because they did not develop nuclear weapons."


Prior to the lecture, Ajou University and the Unishare Foundation signed an MOU on regular and steady exchanges and cooperation centered around unification-related issues. Executive Vice President Kyung Hee Choi said, "I believe that we should first practice sharing to achieve peace and unification." Director Seok Hong Yoon from Unishare said, "We will join hands with Ajou for many unification-related projects."