- Spoke on the subject of “A Prepared Life is a Beautiful Life” to 400 1st-Year Students at Handong University

 

POSCO TJ Park Foundation held an anniversary lecture given by Volunteer Prize winner Won Ju-hee, president of Saemmul Hospice Mission, at Handong University on April 11th. This lecture, given as a special lecture  for Handong Character Education, was a great success and was attended by over 400 new Handong University students.

 

Speaking on the topic of “A Prepared Life is a Beautiful Life”, Pastor Won discuss the need to escape from our former concept of a negative view of death and even reject the word itself to accept death as a part of life. He said that well-dying is just as important as well-being and that we should not consider it a negative event but include well-being in the process of moving toward well-dying. By accepting death as a positive thing, we will instill a culture of beautiful life including greeting death instead of suffering from it.

 

In this lecture, President Won stated, “After a diagnosis of cancer last November and surgical removal of 1/3 my stomach, I find my body doesn't move like my mind. While considering whether to halt my hospice activities, I was awarded the TJ Park Prize.” He added, “I believe God is telling me not to stop, but to extend my hospice work even further.” The pastor also expressed his gratitude that people are informed of the hospice duty through the TJ Park Prize.

 

President Won was awarded 200 million won in the 12th POSCO TJ Park Prize ceremony in the POSCO Center Atrium in Seoul on March 21st and donated 100 million of that to found a hospice in Cambodia with the remaining 100 million to be used as a welfare fund for the Saemmul Hospice volunteers.

 

The POSCO TJ Park Awards were established in 2006 and given to expand national interest and participation in Posco’s values of creativity, talent, sacrifice, and volunteering to contribute to national development and to honor the work of Posco's honorary chairman, the late Park Tae-jun, who aided Korean commercialization through self-reliance on steel, bringing it from a country devoid of steel to a steel producer through determination. There are four prize categories (science, education, volunteering, and technology), and prizes are awarded to groups or inviduals with outstanding achievements after impartial evaluation by a selection committee comprising experts in each field.

 

Applications for the 2019 awards will be accepted from June 1st until September 30th of this year. Please see the POSCO TJ Park Foundation homepage (www.postf.org) for details.