(Shanghai=Yonhap News), Han Seung-ho, Correspondent in Shanghai = The Unification Festival for Korean Youth was held at the historic site of Patriot Yoon Bong-gil in Shanghai, China.

The Shanghai Municipal Chapter of NUAC organized the 3rd Unification Festival for the Youth at the yard of "Maeheon," the Memorial Hall for Patriot Yoon Bong-gil at Hongkou Lu xun Park in Shanghai, China on April 11.

A total of 400 Korean students and residents from Shanghai, Suzhou and Wuxi of Jiang su Province, and Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province attended the festival.

Elementary school students participated in a drawing contest with national unification as a theme; middle and high school students joined the "Unification Quiz Contest" at the park. Both activities were aimed at reviewing the significance of national unification.

“This festival was organized for the Korean youth studying abroad to have the right recognition on the unification of the Korean Peninsula on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of Independence and 96th Anniversary of Establishing the Provisional Government of Korea in Shanghai. It is very meaningful to hold the event here in the park, where the spirit of the independence fighters of Korea is very much alive. I wish our young generation can have better understanding on the reality of the division of our fatherland on the occasion of this festival,“ said Lee Chang-ho, head of the Shanghai Municipal Chapter.

Lu xun Park was opened in 1922 under its previous name of "Hongkou Park" but was christened its current name in 1988. Patriot Yoon Bong-gil assassinated the Japanese army commander attending to the celebration of Japanese King’s birthday on April 29, 1932 by throwing a bomb at the park.