Gwangju Nam-gu to Hold 'May Unification Walk' Event on the 22nd

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Kim Byeong-nae) announced on the 17th that the citizens of Gwangju often sang the song "Our Wish is Unification" in May 1980, and in line with the historical spirit and value of the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration, it will hold the "Nam-gu May Unification Manbo" event with the citizens of Gwangju on the 22nd.

The slogan of this event is "From May to Unification, Walking Towards Unification."

The event is co-hosted by Unification Manbo active in Gwangju, the Gwangju Regional Committee of the National Unification Advisory Council, and the Gwangju University Democratic Alumni Association, and participation will be minimized to prevent COVID-19.

In particular, the Unification Manbo walking movement has been led by four civic organizations including Gwangju YMCA, Gwangju Heungsadan, Chonnam National University Democratic Alumni Association, and Unification Uibyung for the past four years to form and spread a consensus on unification in the Gwangju and Jeonnam communities.

Any citizen of Gwangju can participate, and it is a unique citizen movement for unification where participants walk 10,000 steps a day and share certification posts on apps, etc.

Participants will gather by 8:45 a.m. in front of the Sewol Ferry Memorial Sculpture Plaza at Baegun Square, undergo temperature checks, and then begin the march in earnest.

The walking course is a round trip of 5.6 km from Baegun Square to in front of Dongseong High School in Jinwol-dong.

Additionally, participants in the May Unification Manbo event will create a flower path about 3 meters long shaped like the Korean Peninsula.

The flower path in the shape of the Korean Peninsula will be filled with marigolds, which symbolize "friendship," and a total of 427 marigold flowers will be decorated to embody the will to realize the April 27 Panmunjom Declaration.

A Nam-gu official said, "Based on the spirit of May 1980, we prepared the Unification Manbo event with the hope that everyone becomes one and prays for the unification of the Korean Peninsula," adding, "The citizen-participatory unification movement is a modern inheritance of the spirit of May 1980 and lays a flower path for peace on the Korean Peninsula."

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