5th Unification EducationCommittee Held to Discuss
“Method of Continuously Spreading the Discourse of the Unification Bonanza”
The Unification Education Committee(chief: Koo Bon-tae) of NUAC held its 5th committee meeting last May 14 to evaluate the policy for the 2nd quarter ofthe year, focusing on the "Method of continuously spreading the discourse of theunification bonanza - proposal to organize the contents for unification education."
"National unification may come to us softly like the breeze of spring or threateningly like a violent wave, depending on our efforts. Thus, we should make ceaseless and valuable efforts for achieving national unification," said Koo Bon-tae, chief of the committee, in his opening speech.
Park Chan-bong, Secretary General of NUAC, explained the newly established "Education and Training Dept." under the secretariat. "We hope that the new department could suggest constructive guidelines to promote various activities requiredto spread the discourse of peaceful unification of Korea," he stated.
Goo Bon-tae, Chief of the Committee
Park Chan-bong, Secretary General of NUAC
According to Prof. Cho Kyeong-keun of Kyungsung Univ., the Park Geun-hye’s Government has been promoting the inter-Korean policy for unification continuously with a phased, gradual approach through 3 unification agenda: Korean peninsula’s trust-building process (proposing a principal),”“Unification bonanza theory(forming a unification-friendly atmosphere),” and "Dresden Declaration (materializing the subject).”To spread empathy with the unification agenda, the three agenda should be more closely interconnected and materialized, he stressed.
Prof. Cho Kyung-geun
Committee members
He also suggested that selecting individual projects considering their realistic possibility and significance in relation to the Dresden Declaration can be efficient in obtaining the broad support and sympathy of international societies; they may include maternal childhood health support, investment in developing social infrastructures and natural resources, and DMZ (de-militarized zone) world peace park.
Committee members recommended the following: △ Hold a unification education forum to set the conditions for integrating public opinions; △ Research on establishing a new concept of national security that can be harmonized with the unification bonanza theory; △ Pursue governance for social unification education, cooperation between the public and private sectors, specialization and characterization of the programs concerned, and comprehensive contents; △ Encourage reflective thinking and fuel interest; △ Designate and operate a school for experiencing national unification;△Hold a conference of college students' think-tank of Northeast Asia △Make an integrated weather forecast of South and North.
5th Unification Education Committee Meeting
The outcomes of the Unification Education Committee Meeting will be reported as policy recommendation for the second quarter of the year together with those of the 9 other committees of NUAC.
