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  • Residential Environment Improvement work by Daejin Welfare Team
    On Novemer 17, 2017, Daejin Welfare Team of Daesoon Jinrihoe Welfare Foundation visited an elder’s house in Songchon 2 gil, Daeshin-myeon, Yeoju city and reformed the house to improve the living condition. It is one of the residential environment improvement projects of the foundation. The volunteers from Daejin Welfare Team cleaned all areas of the house first, and then removed and replaced the broken upper sink board in the kitchen, and renewed wall papers and laid new linoleum floor in the rooms and living room. The Daejin Welfare Team is planing to continue and expand their volunteering works for the residential environment improvement project in 2018.
    2017-11-26
  • Mongolia Berunduru Representatives visited Yeoju Headquarters Temple Complex
    The representatives of 9 people from Mongolia Berunduru Township visited Yeoju headquarters temple complex and affiliated organizations in November 13-17, 2017 to seek for the ways of international exchange and collaboration. The Berunduru deputy mayor Etgeongcheok and the principal of Borund High School, Dugersurang promised that they will positively recommend Daejin University to their students who wish to study in Korea. Also, they discussed the specific means, such as to establish Daejin-Borund Korean Language Center where Mr. Altang Eot who earned master degree in the graduate school of Daejin University could teach Korean and promote the students to come to Daejin University and study. Furthermore, Daejin International Volunteers Association has agreed to go to Mongolia and do charity and aid work for people who are in difficult living conditions.
    2017-11-26
  • Winter Charity: Making and Sharing Kimchi for the Winter
    On Nov. 17, 2017, Daejin International Volunteers Association participated in the event titled “Winter Charity: Making and Sharing Kimchi for the Winter”, together with other volunteers from Yeoju city. The event was supported by Gyeonggido Volunteers Center. About 60 people of volunteers made kimchi with 2,000 heads of cabbage in cold weather and delivered them to elders who live alone, the neglected people, and single-parent families in 12 towns and villages of Yeoju city.
    2017-11-25
  • Missouri Blues: Multi-faith Visit to Missouri University
    As an interreligious dialogue project, there was a special lecture on new religions at the University of Missouri Columbia Campus on November 3rd, 2017. The event was co-hosted by the Department of Religious Studies, the Vietnam Institute, and Asian Affairs Center at MU. Here, Daesoon Jinrihoe from South Korea, Cao Dai from Vietnam, and CESNUR(Center for Studies on New Religions) from Italy made presentations and introduced their religions and institution. The three delegation groups consist of the following people: Daesoon Jinrihoe LEE Tae Yeol, director of religious research and edification department, Daesoon Jinrihoe LEE Gyeong Won, professor and dean of the department of Daesoon Theology, Daejin University CHA Ik Je, head of international affairs team, Daesoon Jinrihoe KIM Dong Hwan, staff at international affairs team, Daesoon Jinrihoe CAO DAI Reverend Thuong Canh Tranh, President of Cao Dai Overseas Missionary, Nguyen Tan Khoa from New Orleans, Louisiana CESNUR Massimo Introvigne, director of Center for Studies on New Religions Rosita Soryte, Lithuanian minister counselor The special lecture on November 3, 2017, was attended by more than 150 students and faculty members of MU. It was a great and successful opportunity to introduce Asian New Religions such as Daesoon Jinrihoe and Cao Dai to the West. Also, the event was much more pleasant as we had best friends Mr. Massimo Introvigne and Ms. Rosita Soryte, who are always giving advises and helping Daesoon Jinrihoe on its work for globalization, and Rev. Tran Canh and Mr. Nguyen Tan Khoa, with whom we have been in continuous contact and found out that we share a special connection in our religious and spiritual journey. The lecture was proceeded as the following schedule: 1:00 – 2:00 pm – Prof. LEE Gyeong Won made a presentation on Daesoon Jinrihoe Religion. About 150 students from the Department of Religious Studies were in attendance. 3:00 – 4:00 pm – In a seminar titled “New Asian Religions in a Globalized World”, Director Massimo Introvigne, Rev. Canh Tran and CHA Ik Je made their presentations for twenty minutes each in front of about 50 faculty members of MU. In addition to the lecture, for five-day visit to MU from October 30th to November 3rd, the Daesoon Jinrihoe delegation spent meaningful time with faculty members of MU and other delegation groups, such as having discussions on how to make further cooperative activities that would help us spread Asian new religions and culture to the West. We give special thanks to all faculty members and students at Missouri University including professor Signe Cohen of Religious Studies department, Professor Joe Hobbs of Vietnam Institute, Director Kim Sang of Asian Affairs Center, who welcomed us with warm hospitality and showed interest and enthusiasm to learn new Asian religion by asking many questions about new religions and Daesoon Jinrihoe. Daesoon Jinrihoe is planing to expand this lecture event to other major universities in USA in cooperation with Cao Dai and other religions that may join us. Please see the news on Missouri Blues that were made by two other delegation groups, Cao Dai and CESNUR in the following website: http://caodai.com.vn/en/news-detail/show-me-missouri-blues-university-of-missouri-columbia-hosts-event-on-asian-new-religions.html http://caodai.com.vn/en/news-detail/cao-dai-presentation-at-missouri-university-nov-2017.html http://www.cesnur.org/2017/missouri.htm
    2017-11-18
  • Chiseong to celebrate the147th Gucheon Sangje’s Descension
    On November 7, or September 19 in lunar calendar, thousands of disciples came to Yeoju headquarters temple complex to attend Guchen Sangje's Descenscion Chiseong, which is one of the biggest Chiseongs in Daesoon Jinrihoe. It is held to celebrate the day when Supreme God or Sangje of the Ninth Heaven descended into human world as a human being named Jeungsan Kang in Jeolla-do, Korea in 1871 to reoder the whole universe and open an Earthly Paradise where the ideas of Haewon and Boeun Sangsaeng(resolution of grievances and grateful reciprocation of favors for mutual beneficence) are realized. The day also coincided with the seasonal Chiseong to celebrate of the beginning of winter.
    2017-11-17
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