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Korea Peace Day 2005 Statement

With renewed tensions once again raising the specter of war on the Korean peninsula, the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK), an organization of scholars working in the United States and other countries who are concerned with U.S. policies towards the Korean peninsula, declares November 10, 2005 to be Korea Peace Day.

On this day we call upon all concerned people and organizations to join together on college and university campuses throughout the United States to express a commitment to a peaceful resolution of the on-going tensions between the U.S. and North Korea (DPRK). Fifty-two years ago, on July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed to end the fighting in the Korean War. That war killed more than three million Koreans, more than half a million Chinese, and more than 35,000 Americans. The Korean War has never formally ended. Korea remains divided, and the United States and North Korea remain technically at war with each other half a century after the armistice.

The first Korea Peace Day was held on November 6, 2003, with events taking place at over forty colleges and universities throughout the United States. As on that day, this Korea Peace Day is dedicated to promoting a formal end to the war and the renunciation of the use of military force on the Korean Peninsula. Events on Korea Peace Day will focus on illuminating the history of the current tensions on the Korean peninsula as well as the importance of and possibilities for the U.S. to build new more beneficial relationships with both Koreas--the DPRK and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) through dialogue, cooperation, and the active pursuit of peace.

Korea Peace Day Activities

Here are some suggestions for easy-to-organize events for Korea Peace Day. Please send information about your planned activities and any questions or suggestions to peaceday@asck.org.

  • Send out a press release (see the sample press release).
  • Invite a knowledgeable faculty member, staff or student to give a presentation or contact peaceday@asck.org for help in arranging an outside speaker.
  • Show a movie (for some suggested films, see the resource list).
  • Put some materials on reserve at the library and hold a discussion group based on those materials (for some suggested readings, see the resource list).
  • Set up a table at the student center for students, staff and faculty to write letters to their elected officials urging a peaceful resolution to the current conflict (see some sample letters).

Korea Peace Day Participating Schools

Arizona State University (Hyaeweol Choi, organizer; hchoi@asu.edu)

Boston College (Michelle Kim, organizer; kimgx@bc.edu)

Columbia University (Theodore Hughes, organizer; th2150@columbia.edu)

Cornell University , (J.J. Suh, organizer; js286@cornell.edu)

George Washington University (Young-Key Kim-Renaud, organizer;
kimrenau@gwu.edu)

Hanyang University (John Michael McGuire, organizer;
squiremcguire@gmail.com)

Langara College (Vancouver,Canada) (Ju min ho, organizer; hesse38@hotmail.com).

Lewis and Clark College (Marty Hart-Landsberg, organizer; marty@lclark.edu)

Occidental College (Jennifer Jung-Kim, organizer; jenniferjungkim@gmail.com)

Princeton University (Erik Mobrand, organizer; emobrand@princeton.edu)

Stanford University (Chiho Sawada, organizer; csawada@stanford.edu)

University of British Columbia (Don Baker, organizer; don.baker@ubc.ca)

University of California, Irvine (Kyung Hyun Kim, organizer; kyunghk@uci.edu)

University of California, Los Angeles (Namhee Lee, organizer; lee@humnet.ucla.edu)

University of Georgia (Hyangsoon Yi, organizer; hyangsyi@uga.edu)

University of Hawaii at Manoa (Theodore Jun Yoo, organizer; yoojun@hawaii.edu)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Jin-Heon Jung, organizer; poem04@gmail.com)

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Hye Seung Chung, organizer; chunghs@umich.edu)

University of Southern California (Matthew Shapiro, organizer; mattheas@usc.edu)

University of Texas at Austin (Rob Oppenheim, organizer; rmo@mail.utexas.edu)

Wesleyan University (Jennifer Kim, organizer; jkim05@wesleyan.edu)

Yonsei University (Cho Haejeong, organizer; haejoang@korea.com)

Korea Peace Day Resources