The East Timor Youth Soccer Team is scheduled to have a friendly match with the Seoul-Suwon Youth Soccer Club at the Sueon World Cup Stadium on April 8. Gyeonggi Governor Sohn Hak-kyu will watch the game and encourage the young players. 
The event was arranged as a result of Mr. Sohn Hak-kyu’s invitation during his two-day visit to East Timor at the end of last February as part of the college student peace messenger event. Mr. Kim Shin-hwan assumes the role of head coach for the youth soccer team of East Timor. 

About East Timor 
A country sized 14,000km² (about the size of Gangwon Province of Korea) with the population of 770,000, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor, got its independence in April 2002. During an unsuccessful campaign of pacification that followed over two decades from July 1976, when Indonesia incorporated it after the country declared its independence from the Portuguese colonial rule, an estimated 100,000 to 250,000 individuals lost their lives. It ranks as one of the poorest countries in the world. 
On his visit to the South Pacific country last February, the Gyeonggi Governor contributed the Widow Center (for those whose husbands were killed during the struggle for independence) built with the budget of 50 million won at an area 37km from the capital city Dili. 
At that time, he spent some time working along with college student peace messengers to build a children’s playground, using his amateurish welding skills. 

Provision of humanitarian support 
In an effort to help East Timorese who are in dire straits, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office’s Pharm Bank has provided medical supplies and dispatched a team of medical doctors, in addition to 50 suits of Taekwondo uniforms and ten sets of training for the martial art. This year, the office plans to provide 300 million won worth of vegetable seeds (32㎏), shoes, school supplies, playthings, soaps, toothpastes and old clothes, etc. 

East Timor President plans to attend the Peace Festival 2005: Beyond the DMZ. 

As part of the events related to the 2005 Visit Gyeonggi Year, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office plans to hold the Peace Festival 2005: Beyond the DMZ in an area at Imjingak near the DMZ in August 2005‘2005 with catchphrases, such as reconciliation and co-existence, peace and reunification, peace among humankind, and respect for life and traditional cultures. 
East Timor President Xanana Gusmao, Nobel Peace Prize co-winners Bishop Carlos Bello and Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta will attend the peace-promoting event as parties sharing the agony of national division with Korea.