Internet: The Best Tool For Peace

Internet: The Best Tool For Peace

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Produced by Miyoomo (the Korean Student Ambassadors for Innovative Volunteer Outreach)- www.miyoomo.org

This video is a documentary based on a peace project that was centered on the 2010 World Cup period this past summer. By use of the Internet, we were able to complete this project, even though portions of the project came from various countries around the world, including America, South Korea, Qatar, and China. Our common goal for global peace is what connected us idealistically, but the Internet was the pathway from which our ideas could be connected physically.

During this period, the political environment in the Korean peninsula was very volatile. Using this climate to our advantage, without exacerbating the situation, Miyoomo (an online-based community of Korean international students in the US) created a project that would emphasize the need for peace by metaphorically using the World Cup situation.

For the first time in 44 years, North Korea participated in the World Cup this summer, making headlines internationally. This kind of public acknowledgment of global cooperation, despite the political and social dissent, was very meaningful in the eyes of Miyoomo members. Through this metaphor, we wanted to send a message of global unity and peace, not just for North Korea, but for everyone.

With the help of Berklee College of Music students, "Become One" was created as a message of peace to East Asia during the 2010 World Cup. The core idea behind the song and music video was to plead with North Korea to elicit a more peaceful environment and thereby encourage the rest of the world to do the same.

One of the most moving scenes during the World Cup was when cameras caught North Korean player Jung, Tea Se crying during the playing of the national anthem. We interpreted his tears to represent the struggle in obtaining peace for such a war-torn, poverty-stricken area. As a result, we decided to emphasize this and make the message more accessible by creating a music video about it.

By utilizing the Internet, we gathered the ideas we wanted to emphasize in the song from members in many different countries. All of our collaboration and brainstorming could not have been possible without a means of efficiently communicating globally, which is exactly what the Internet has provided. Through social networking, we were able to successfully complete and distribute a message of peace and humanity to all corners of the world.


Produced by MiYooMo (www.miyoomo.org)
Executive Director: Sean Kim
Assistant Director: Eunice Choi
Editing and Animation: Eunice Choi
T-Shirt Design : Eunice Choi
Technical Advisor: Justin Long, Heeyong Daniel Jang, Albert Hyukjae Kwon,

Music (Become One) by Berklee College of Music

Composition: Jung Eun Kwon
Lyrics: Jongchan Marco Baek
Vocals:
Jourdan Rystrom ( http://www.youtube.com/jourdania05 )
Faustina Abad Sokolov, Jiyoon June Dong
Mixing Engineer: Dongeun Ray Kim

Special Thanks To:

Emily Grace Mangione
Jwa-Min Nam
Hanna Kang
Won Taek Chung
Zachary Long
Sarah Milewski
Sangsoo Park

Gabriel José Peguero Céspedes
Jungwoog Dan Lee
Remi Lee
Saemi Lee
Yongjin Kwon
Mindy Kim
Jeonghyo Lee
Na Young Lee
Hyerin J Kim
Page Moon
David Kim
William Wells
Lauren Bracken
Kevin Greene
Rishabh Sharma
Hadrien Pierson
Norman Kim

Hyeon Cho
Jung Yun Hwang
Yoon Seop Lee
Julia Ji Young Byun
Sue Yeon Moon
Hye Won Kim
Bokhung Kim
Nisha Patel
Christina Kawai
Allison Sakakida
Sangwoo Park

Kyu Hwan Kim
Joon Hur
MinJung Kim
Jongwoong Kim
Jae Wook Ha
Grace Choi
Joo yeon Chon
Sorah Seong
Kyung-Ah Kim
Sooah Choi
Sun Kyu Park
Eun Ji Kim
Jeehoon Jung
Dong Han lm
DK Lim
Sunjin Park
Jiwon Lee
Sam Park
Brian Dong-Yoon Kim
Pureway Kwon

Jean Hensley
Patricia Harms
Courtney Wright
Matthew Coury
Jennifer Tackett
David Stutznegger

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• miyoomo
• Become
• One
• Internet
• for
• peace
• noble
• prize
• wired

[miyoomo]

-----Become One (Lyrics)------

I look out the window and I see a lot of faces

I look deeper into their eyes they start to hide all of their pains

Everyday they seek the true light hoping they'd find justice

Everynight they start to cry innocent hearts being torn apart

It would be a shame if we looked the other way instead of helping

[miyoomo]

Wouldn't it be better if six billion become one and they all tried to/ share the fruits of life and all the joy and love/ get rid of all the hatred

Use your words as bullets for peace shield those in pain and weak

Feed them with the soft bread of life the wisdom of love that they strive

Like the festivals and games we share and play let us join and sing for love to never go away

[jourdania05]

I'm so glad people have SEEN OUR VIDEO and our PEACE message can get around! The power of the internet...

Please everyone keep passing it around! I'm glad you like it :)

- Jourdan

[jourdania05]

@ballalas dude, we weren't lip synching. check out my youtube page, its the same voice. we are all singers who go to berklee. you should calm down.

[chchjudoschool]

Having Justice creates peace!

Assist that first

[chchjudoschool]

I agree

Justice creates peace!

We need justice first!

Concentrate on assisting growth in justice.

Perhaps amnesty international ??

Wishing for peace is all very kind.

Assisting justice will create that pathway!

[Alxfalck]

@eathenicus It's not the grammar that matters..

[placidokaluba]

Very good

[jjasonwrght]

@OnlyGiggs Of course it can EVENTUALLY happen.

I think the real question is when can we make it happen?

[leeryruefulne]

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[MadaOOS]

Beautiful vid, music, voice and message keep it up

[menschunskinder]

Beautiful. More videos should be made. Great way to spread peace