Gyeonggi Province holds a variety of peace events near July 27, Korean War Armistice Day.

Events for celebrating DMZ 60th year, “Now Is life.”

July
-DMZ 60th International Symposium
July 23 (Tue) 10:30 to 16:40 / Grand Ballroom, KINTEX
Talk Concert, International Symposium, DMZ Advertisement Contest Award, and etc.

-Armistice 60th year celebration, 『World Peace Orchestra Peace Concert』
July 26(Fri) 17:30 to 20:30 / Dorasan Station

-Opening ceremony of Security Experience Facility in Camp Greaves 
July 27(Sat) 09:00 to 12:40 / Camp Greaves in Gunnae-myeon, Paju City 
Touring Security Experience Facility, Test-operation of Army Life and Ecological Experience Program

-Invitation to Veterans 『A Place for Meeting』
July 27 (Sat) 14:30 to 17:00 / KINTEX
95 veterans from five foreign countries and 160 domestic veterans invited

-Cheonjijindong Festival
July 27(Sat) 18:30 to 22:00 / Pyeonghwanuri, Imjingak, Paju City 
About 20,000 cast including 10,000 members of Kim Deok-su Samulnori and 100 members of Gyeonggi Philhamonic

August
-60th Celebration for Daeseongdong Village 
August 2 (Fri) 10:00 to 13:30 / Daeseongdong Village, Imjingak
Welcoming ceremony for UN Command security force, Building rice cake tower in the hope of peaceful unification, and etc.

-DMZ World Peace Concert
August 3 (Sat) 18:00 to 20:30 / Pyeonghwanuri, Imjingak
Cast: Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Deulgukhwa, Lee Moon-sae, Kim Jang-hoon, and etc.

-Celebration for Tongil-chon’s opening of brand village and its 40th anniversary
August 14 (Wed) 11:00 to 13:30 / Tongil-chon, Baekyeon-ri, Gunnae-myeon, Paju City 
Touring Village Museum and trail, Trying traditional wedding and traditional rice cake of Tongil-chon

October
-Peaceful Unification Marathon Festival
October 6 (Sun) 08:00 to 14:00 / Imjingak
10,000 participants, four courses (Full/Half/10km/6km)

DMZ, which represented the symbol of division and the pain of the nation before, is now becoming the symbol of coexistence, peace, and life by healing the wounds of the past 60 years.

Marking the 60th anniversary of Korean War Armistice, Gyeonggi Province will hold various peace events before and after July 27, which is Korean War Armistice Day, so that the nation can relive pains of the war and the division, and communicate each other and find harmony.

Under the theme, “From Armistice to Co-existence and Co-prosperity,” DMZ International Symposium will be held at KINTEX on July 23 to discuss co-existence and co-prosperity of the Korean peninsula, measures for reconciliation and cooperation between the two Koreas, and peaceful utilization of DMZ.

In addition, ‘War Veterans Invitation Event’ will be held on July 25 to 30 to visit national security sites in Korea with participation of 96 Korean war veterans and their families from the US, Turkey, Thailand, Canada, and Australia.

Camp Greaves Security Experience Facility, which was remodeled place as a part of Camp Greaves, the military facilities within Civilian Access Control Line (CACL) in Gunnae-myeon, Paju City will have an opening ceremony on July 27, and a visitors-participating large-scale Cheonjijindong Festival on the same day at 6:30 p.m. in Pyeonghwanuri.

The 60th year celebration of Daeseongdong Village, which was designated as “a village of peace” on August 3 in the same year of the Armistice Agreement (1953) and is the only village in South Korea located in Joint Security Area (JSA) within DMZ, will be taken place on August 2. On the next day (August 3), DMZ World Peace Concert will be held for declaring DMZ as a mecca of world peace.

On August 14, Tongil-chon, which was set up as a settlement village in the spring of 1972 in Baekyeon-ri, Gunnae-myeon, Paju city and now widely-known as Jandankong Village, and Civilian Control Line (CCL) lies therein, will open a ceremony of brand village. On October 6, Peaceful Unification Marathon Festival, in which nearly 10,000 participants run the CCL district in the hope of peaceful unification, will be the grand finale of a series of DMZ 60th year events.

ⓒGyeonggi G-News | Cheon Kyung-nam ckn0403@kg21.net

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