Welcoming Address

Good afternoon. I would like to sincerely welcome and congratulate all of you who are here in Korea looking for your roots. This year we celebrate the 21st anniversary of JOURNEY program for all Korean Overseas Adoptees. Although there are only few participants this year, compared to previous years with more than 20 participants, it is my pleasure to meet every one of you.

Korea is a wonderfully beautiful country that progresses day by day. Our language HanGul, which was invented in the mid-15th century, is globally renown for its scientific excellence. Despite countless aggression from foregin powers due to its geographically strategic location, Korea firmly defended its land from numerous attempts of invasion. However, being divided into South and North with differing ideologies without achieving reunification is a sad reality. Nevertheless, Korea successfully hosted the Seoul Olympics in 1988 and the Korea-Japan World Cup in 2002, in which it accomplished a splendid feat of winning the fourth place. Korea is currently a global role model of successful industrial development and its cultural excellence.

This country with numerous other strengths is your motherland Korea, which you can be proud of. I hope this visit will be an opportunity for everyone to discover and reaffirm your roots and identity as Korean. I also hope that the self-consciousness or misunderstanding you might have felt from different appearances as you grew up can be transformed into a strong pride from now on.

We, JinHeungMoonHwa Company, have much pride in helping many Korean adoptees like yourselves by showing diverse aspects of homeland and identifying one's roots through our JOURNEY program. Although each of us has different living backgrounds, we feel that all of us are brothers and sisters of the same blood, and we will do our best to introduce more about your motherland for next couple of weeks.

If you had learned about Korea only indirectly before, from today on, find out about the "Real Korea" through seeing, listening, and experiencing with open minds and eager willingness and make all the joy of the experience yours in its entirety. I hope your visit here will be a meaningful and beautiful time, which stirs up love and deep feeling about your motherland Korea.

At the same time, I would like to thank our host families and volunteers. We do appreciate your help every year, and I hope that you also have a wonderful time with each other.

Once again, I welcome all of you here with me today with all my heart. Thank you very much.

2016. 6. 20.
Park, Kyung Jin, Chairman
JinHeungMoonHwa Co., Ltd.
 
 
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