Daesoon Jinrihoe

2017 Chuseok Chiseong
Chuseok(harvest festival or Thanksgiving Day) is one of the two major national holidays in Korea along with the New Year's Day. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar on the full moon. Like many other harvest festivals around the world, it is held around the autumn equinox, i.e. at the very end of summer or in early autumn. As a celebration of the good harvest, Koreans visit their ancestral hometowns and share a feast of Korean traditional food such as songpyeong and rice wines such as sindoju and dongdongju. In Daesoon Jinrihoe, Chuseok Chiseong is held at 1 am before the morning of Chuseok day in Main Sanctuary Building (Bonjeon) at Yeoju headquarters temple complex. In the pictures below, participants are waiting in line to get in the building and attend Chiseong ceremony. After Chiseong is over at around 5 am, they head to their home to attend morning Charae ceremony with family members or visit ancestral graves.
2017-10-04

Vietnamese Vico Land Corp. Visits Daesoon Jinrihoe
Chair Bui Duc Long and four other people from Vico Land Corp. situated in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, visited Daesoon Jinrihoe. They came to tour the Daesoon Welfare Foundation, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital in turn for 4 nights 5 days from April 30 to May 4. The visitors had a meeting with the Daesoon Jinrihoe movement regarding the fields of education and welfare. As for education, the two parties discussed international exchanges between high schools and dispatch of university students. About the welfare side, they agreed to support active volunteering of in the mid-northern part of Vietnam, known to be a vulnerable area. Daesoon Jinrihoe also promised to counsel the Vietnamese party about the construction of welfare facilities for senior citizens and hospital will also continue. VICO Land Corp. is dedicated to undertaking colleges while managing four construction companies international primary and secondary schools such as Hue Star School in the southern part of Hue Province. In addition, the corp. provided 10,000 apartment units for lower income families and spend 10% of their profits for charity and relief every year. Meanwhile, on April 13, 2017, Chair Yoon Eun-Do of the Daesoon Welfare Foundation was invited to Hanoi where the headquarters of the VICO Land Corp. are located. Daesoon Jinrihoe signed the MOU in order to vitalize welfare services and cultural exchanges between the two parties.
2017-05-13

2017 Religious/Cultural Field Trip
The initial religious/cultural field trip began on April 26, 2017 in front of about 100 executives. Director Seongam Kim Wuk of the Academic Affairs Dept said at the welcome ceremony that he hoped the participants would learn a lot from the field trip so that they could be a stepping stone for the world propagation. The Daesoon Hanmadang Pungmul team performed at the welcome ritual ceremony to wish for happiness and peace for the audience. This year, the religious/culture field trip continues to tour Chungcheong, Gyeongsang Province, Busan, Hwayang Valley, Mandong Shrine, Bangu Pavillion, Doju’s birthplace, Hoeryong House, Disciple Kim Byeong-Mun’s house, Mt. Cheonma, and Gamcheon Town for 2 nights 3 days with the topic called ‘Retracing Doju’s footsteps.’ 504 people applied for the five field trips in total.
2017-04-29

7th Academic Conference held by the Daesoon Academy of Sciences, 2017
The Daesoon Academy of Sciences held the 7th academic conference with outside researchers to publish the Journal of Daesoon Academy of Sciences on April 8. The special issue on the perspective of Daesoon Thought and general papers on the meaning of empathy appeared in the Jeon-Gyeong and resolution of grievance for mutual beneficence were presented at the conference. Prof. Kim Deok-Sam from Daejin University and 8 other researchers from various institutes presented on Daesoon Thought. The commentators were the researchers from the Academic Affairs dept. Daesoon Institute of Religion and Culture, and the professors of Daesoon Theology dept. and Prof. Kang Don-Gu of the Academy of Korean Studies.
2017-04-15

Sheaf Burning Event on the First Full Moon of the Lunar New Year
The sheaf burning event was held at Yeoju Headquarters Temple on February 11 when the moon rose (6:24pm). Around one thousands of followers and Yeoju citizens participated to celebrate the New Year (Jeongyu Year) and made wishes upon the burning sheaves. During this celebration, the Daesoon Hanmadang Pungmul crew prayed for peace, good harvest and blessings to reign on each household through stepping on the spirit of the Earth. Unlike last year's celebration, this year's celebration has left an impressive memory to the participants through fireworks. The moon symbolizes prosperity, and fireworks as a purifier of every corruption and evil. Yeoju Headquarters Temple has held a sheaf event annually for harmony and well-being of its devotees and Yeoju citizens.
2017-02-11

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