Service and Volunteerism
I believe that service will play a pivotal role in changing the global ethic that currently is in the world. How I act and serve can not only transform myself and the constituents of that which I am a part of but the community, nations, regions and world to bring about a better humanity a more sustainable solution for this 21st century.
Mask Making by Global Peace Women
As the world faces the COVID19 pandemic, clearly it has called every one, women and men, people of all faiths, nations, and ages, to come together to innovate new solutions. Recently, the women of Global Peace Women in the Republic of Korea demonstrated the power of...
Helping Others Ease the Burden: A Story of Hope in Disaster
As the world faces an unprecedented challenge together, we can learn from small acts of service taking place around the world. We live in strange and uncertain times, but there are many ways to continue to care for one another, spreading our human compassion to uplift...
Social Transformation and Korean Reunification through Civic Engagement
"Great social transformation requires the active engagement of a broad public united in pursuit of a common cause. That cause should be unification. Koreans from the North, South as well as the diaspora must engage with one another on many different levels. Civic...
Korean Service Wave
At the end of the 20th century in Korea, volunteering was not considered desirable. At the time, the country was just coming out of the Asian financial crisis and, before that, the people were busy. So busy, in fact, that the nation was able to...
A Call to Service: Remembering 9-11
Updated on 9/10/2019 Years have passed since the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan were brought down by hijacked planes. The event brought to the fore the real challenge of the 21st century—not a clash of nation-states, but the threat of...
The Value of Service in Our Humanity
I believe that America’s true strength lies in its moral authority as a nation rooted in spiritual principles and values which has championed human rights and freedoms at home and abroad. This is a nation with the...
Good Leaders Know Emotional Control
Why does a leader need to have control over his or her emotions? Leadership is about serving others and a greater purpose beyond your own desires or ego. Control over one’s emotions is essential to seeing from a perspective beyond your own and responding...
4 Good Reasons to Volunteer
Taking time to volunteer is not just beneficial for the people being served. Research and interviewing volunteers themselves proves that there is a myriad of benefits to prioritizing charitable service consistently in one’s daily life. Volunteering is not...
National Transformation Starts from You
Waiting on the world to change? The world is waiting on you. “We the people” make transformation happen. The first step is to own the process. We have to be engaged in building our neighborhoods, our communities, our nations, our world. We have to participate. We have...