"Love you Korea"
Peace and Communication to bring world together '
Place of meeting'
MANNAM
Volunteer association host's final for '1st Korean speaking contest'
-America, Nepal,
China, Indonesia, etc 7 countries 9 participant's experience in Korea.
"1st MANNAM's Korean speaking contest' was held
may 12th 4pm at Jowun Samsun Hospital 8th floor with many of the foreigners to
bring peace through communication.
This event's host 'MANNAM volunteer association
Busan North sector' had opened 'Korean class' since last year and supported
everyone to understand Korean and Korean cultures for free, and because of
people's ongoing interest and enthusiasm made this 'Korean speaking contest'.
'Korean speaking contest' was held first time this
year and it's purpose was to bring everyone to have interest in Korean culture
and language, and through understanding of the cultures eventually will bring
everyone to look past countries, race, and culture and achieve peace. This will
be the annual event and it will be the next cultural icon in Busan's
international community.
This day MANNAM volunteer association Busan North
sector's president Kyung Min Nam, Second chance study's chairman Pan Su Yoo,
Busan international University's professor Noel Woodword, Korean Nepal
community Busan sector leader L.B.Bist, Busan Joong-gu volunteer centre's
president Sang Soo Choi came as guest to
honor the occasion.
In this day MANNAM volunteer association Busan North
sector's chief Su Kyung Kim and members of the MANNAM volunteer association and
200 of the participant's friend cheer on as the event went on.
MANNAM volunteer association Busan North sector's
chief Su Kyung Kim said "It was very hard when we first started Korean
class but hard works of true volunteers and eager students made thing work and
now we have over 70 students and growing.
And "We follow the act of MANNAM's honorary
president Mr. Man Hee Lee, who also volunteers and works for the world peace,
in the mind of the unconditionally giving nature of sunlight, rain and air so
we could eventually achieve world peace."
Following the successful preliminary everyone
anticipated for this final. Nepal, Indonesia, Russia, America, China, Taiwan,
and Philippine 7 countries 9 participant spoke about the title which was called
'Korea that I met'.
Each speaker was given minimum of 5 minute to speak
and they were firmly judged on pronunciation, contents, originality, and
attitude. When everyone finished presenting there was a voting for the most
popular presenter for the audience.
This day Brett Warren Inskip (America), Zhang Dong Mei (China), Punla Jeanenalyn (Philippine),
Chen Jhen-Rong (Taiwan),Sanjeep Prasai (Nepal) and other contestants had
prepared speech titled, 'Beauty of Korea', 'Korea corporation', 'Korean
kindness', 'Korean afterwork dining party' and presented them in Korean.
These finalists, who were chosen from 70 people from
preliminary, were so great they surprise everyone including the judges with
their perfect pronunciation and variety of topics they spoke of.
Especially Sanjeep Prasai(Nepal) who spoke of
'Korean afterwork dining party' was captivating with perfect pronunciation and
sang Korean trot to be the crowds favorite and got a lot of applause from the
crowds.
One of the judges from Second chance study's
chairman Pan Su Yoo has replied "I was very surprised by these foreigners’
Korean skills and episode of their Korean experiences were very
memorable." and "By looking at these participants us Korean have to
learn from them and work even hard to study and change the way we live as
well"
In this event Zafira Wirawan(Indonesia), Khoikova
Tatiana (Russia) came 3rd, Zhang Dong
Mei (China)came 2nd, Sanjeep Prasai(Nepal)came 1st and popular award was given
to him as well.
This day's winner of 1st and popular award Sanjeep
Prasai (Nepal) has replied in his interview " At first speaking in front
of many people frightening to me but with the helps of Korean teachers from
MANNAM helped me a lot and so did my friends." and "I am very
thankful for MANNAM volunteer to given me this opportunity and I would like to
volunteer to teach Korean to the foreigners if I have chance."
2nd prize winner Zhang Dong Mei (China) replied "I am
very grateful for the MANNAM to host such events. Everyone did great and I am
little surprised that I won 2nd prize. I have been to other speaking contest
but nothing like warmth of this contest."
There were performances by Bit-sol dance team's
Korean traditional fan dance and Light team's k-pop 'Gentleman' dance as for
everyone to enjoy together.
MANNAM volunteer association is non profit
organization which host 'Victory Cup', 'Talk concert (The Peace Talk)', 'Korean
class', and various activities to bring all international people regardless of
their nationality, race, and religion. This speaking contest will be held
annually.
MANNAM volunteer association Busan North sector is
holding Victory cup that began last month. For the 1st and 2nd place Vietnam vs
Thailand, For the 3rd and 4th place Vietnam vs Nepal on may 26th 4-7pm
in Eulsukdo soccer field.
