MANNAM International : Trash clean up campaign with foreigners in Bukchon Hanok village

"No frontier in doing something good"

    (picture source: Gyeonggi bukbu branch of Mannma)

The Gyeonggi bukbu branch of the International division of MANNAM Volunteer Association (hereafter referred to as Mannam International/ Branch Chief Jung Jaeyoung) hold the trash clean up campaign in Bukchon Hanok village, Jongno-gu on 28 April.

This event in tandem with Jongno-gu office was designed to promote awareness of the excellence of Korean traditional culture and the importance of the environmental preservation to mark 'Earth day'.

Especially, starting with walking around the eight famous spots in Bukchon from both Jungdok tourist information office and Jaedong tourist information office simultaneously, the Bukchon Hanok village tour of 'Street museum in the town center' finished experiencing the beautiful and historic street and alley of the Hanok village.

A volunteer, Ahmad (Saudi Arabia, 27) said, "It was very impressive that we were able to do volunteer work watching the beautiful street of Bukchon Hanok village. Moreover, I had a great time with Mannam people and I would like to participate in the volunteer work with them continuously."

The chief of the Gyeonggi bukbu branch said, "It was the heart moving day when we became one, beyond nationality and race, with foreign friends thru volunteer work and it also showed a good example to people. We plan to perform volunteer work to contribute to the society and to become the light of the world in a variety of ways.

Mannam Internationl has held various activities like sports with and Korean class for foreigners in Korea, and played a role of a nongovernmental peace delegator which transcends religion and race and achieves the true harmony.



Source: Newsshare.co.kr

MANNAM) We long for Freedom and Peace

This is a video that a MANNAM branch visited Seodaemun Prison History Hall in Seoul, Korea.

Have you heard about it?

The Seodaemun Prison History Hall is the museum preserves and displays Seodaemun Prison signifying the suffering and pain of Koreans during the modern period.

Here, independence activists and pro-democracy activities were jailed and martyred.

Despite such a history of suffering, Koreans achieved independence and democracy. The Seodaemun Prison History Hall represents the history of struggle to achieve Korea's independence and democracy with such indomitable spirit and potential.

MANNAM hosted an event there with foreigners. They toured the hall and wrote some messages with their hope and wishes.

Although I wasn't there, I'm sure they must have felt that it was necessary to have freedom and peace.

Please enjoy this video.



MANNAM K-POP class.

On February 17th Sunday, we had a class!

We had a K-pop class vacation for 2 weeks because of Dong Go Dong Rak and Seolnal. It has been a while since we gathered to dance.

Today we learned ‘I got a boy’ by Girls’ generation!

We learned the dance with passion!

source)mannamkpop.blogspot.com

Awesome!!

It looks tricky but interesting, dosen't it?

This video is from the other branch in Seoul.

I've heard many of you love K-pop and its Dance.

So, I was thinking that MANNAM Jeonju could make a class to learn K-pop dance like the other branches. And we got a chance to do it thanks to some volunteers who are very talented in dance.

The class is going to open soon. Are you ready to join? :))

I'm looking forward to do it so much.

I will post up the details later.