It will be the third summit between the South and North Korea, agreed by Moon Jae-in and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.
A hundred year ago, Yanagi muneyoshi and his friends Asakawa brothers had visited North Korea to see beautiful Korean pocelin kilns’places and they understood beautiful art would be tied peoples’ heart. They had tried to show them to the world, through their friend Barnard Leach, who was the father of modern English pottery, lived for two years at Yanagi’s house in Abiko.
I believe the place should be UNESCO Memory of the World heritage of humanity.
His parents were refugees from South Hamgyeong Province (currently in North Korea) who fled their native city of Hungnam during the Hungnam evacuation.[7]
Moon Jae-in 's family eventually settled in Busan and Moon attended a local school. He enrolled in Kyunghee University where he majored in law He was arrested, convicted, and imprisoned and expelled from the university after he organized a student protest against the Yushin Constitution.Later, he was conscripted into the military and assigned to the South Korean special forces, where he participated in "Operation Paul Bunyan" during the Axe murder incident
After his discharge, he passed the Bar Exam and was admitted to the Judicial Research and Training Institute. He graduated second in his class but was not admitted to become a judge or government prosecutor due to his history of activism against the Yushin dictatorship under Park Chung-hee's rule as a student Moon chose to become a private lawyer instead. After becoming a lawyer, he partnered and worked with future President Roh Moo-hyun in the 1980s. Along with Roh, he took cases involving human rights and civil rights issues defending labor rights activists and students persecuted for opposing Korea's then military dictatorship.They remained friends up until Roh's suicide in 2009. His son studied in USA and his daughter studied in Japan.
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