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- Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital Delivers New Hope Through Surgery for Mongolian Twins
Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital (Director Na Hwa-yeop) announced that on March 12 and 13, it successfully performed surgery on 31-month-old twin boys from Mongolia who were suffering from congenital hypospadias and scrotal deformities. The twins’ parents had been told in Mongolia that treatment was not possible. In December of last year, they met a medical team from Bundang Jesaeng General Hospital who were visiting Mongolia to attract international patients, and sought help through Korea’s international medical charity support program. The surgery became possible thanks to financial assistance from Da-li Partners. The operations were successfully completed under the direction of Dr. Son Jeong-hwan, a leading authority in urological surgery.
2024-03-13
- Gapjin Year First full moon of the lunar year Daljip(moon house) Burning Festival
On February 25, the Order hosted the 2024 Gapjin Year Jeongwol Daeboreum festival at Bamgol, next to the main stadium. Joined by local residents, the event drew around 600 participants and featured a range of hands-on activities, including tuho (pitch-pot), dol-biseokchigi (stone-standing), shoe tossing, rice cake pounding, and kite flying. A generous spread of food—tteokbokki, eomuk (fish cake), injeolmi, and snacks—was provided, making it an occasion enjoyable for all ages. * A “daljip” (literally “moon house”) is built by bundling straw, branches, or brushwood into a large mound or hut-like structure, symbolizing the welcoming of the full moon and the warding off of misfortune.
2024-02-25
- Grand Opening of the Museum Cafe at Yeoju Main Sanctuary
The opening ceremony for the cafe was held in the first-floor lounge of the museum on February 16. Dao cultivators who attended the event participated in a tasting session for the desserts sold at the cafe and gave very positive reviews. A museum official stated, "We have prepared a space where people can rest at the museum," and expressed the hope that "all culivators will be able to spend time here healing while enjoying delicious desserts." The museum cafe operates during the same hours as the museum (10:00 AM to 5:00 PM) and is closed every Monday. Exceptions apply: on the days of Chiseong (Devotional Offering), Bonbuseong (Headquarters Offering), and Hapgangsik (Combining Ritual of Descending), it operates until 7:00 PM, and on the day of Bonggangsik (Reverent Ritual of Descending), it operates until 10:00 PM.
2024-02-16
- Mongolian government officials and representatives visited the Daesoon Jinrihoe Yeoju Headquarters
On November 2, five Mongolian government officials and representatives, including Gan-Ochir Ser-Od, Director of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining, and the Department of Mining Audit and Permits, visited the Yeoju Headquarters. The delegation first discussed various exchanges at Daejin University, including plans to train Mongolian geological and mining experts and recruit Mongolian students to the Department of Energy Engineering. They were then invited by President Yoon Eun-do to visit the Yeoju Headquarters for a meeting. At the meeting, Director Gan-Ochir said, "We have become like family through 10 years of exchanges with Daesoon Jinrihoe. We will work hard to make the name of 'Daejin' widely known in Mongolia through even deeper exchanges in the future." The Daesoon Jinrihoe Yeoju Headquarters visited Mongolia in 2014 at the invitation of Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. This is when the mutual cooperation exchanges between Daesoon Jinrihoe and Mongolian government began. Meanwhile, Mongolia is one of the top 10 resource-rich countries in the world, and many countries, including Korea, are exchanging with Mongolia for resource development.
2023-12-02
- World-renowned scholars gather to address the crisis of modern civilization - Daesoon Academy of Sciences hosts the 3rd World SangSaeng Forum International Conference in 2023
The 3rd World SangSaeng Forum International Academic Conference was held successfully at the Lotte Hotel World in Seoul from October 4 to 6, 2023, under the theme of "How Can Religions Help the World Solve Its Civilizational Crises?" The conference was hosted and organized by the Daesoon Academy of Sciences of Daejin University, sponsored by the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), the International Taoism Association, and the Daesoon Jinrihoe Yeoju Headquarters Temple Complex. Over 200 domestic and international scholars and religious leaders from 12 countries participated in the three-day conference, sharing their wisdom on how to overcome and solve the modern civilizational crises that humanity is facing. In the first and second sessions, eight keynote speeches were delivered by Eileen Barker, Honorary Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Massimo Introvigne, President of CESNUR, Bae Gyu-han, Director of the Daesoon Thought Research Institute, Livia Kohn, Honorary Professor at Boston University and President of the International Taoism Association, Sung-min Ryu, Honorary Professor at Hanyang University and former President of the Korean Association for Religious Studies, Jung-ja Seo, Honorary Professor at Ewha Womans University and former President of the Korean Association for Taoism Studies, Kim Hun, Professor at Peking University and Executive Director of the China Religious Culture Research Institute, and Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Honorary Professor at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne and Director of the European Institute for the Study of Religion and Secularism. In the third to ninth sessions, scholars of international renown, including Holly Folk (United States), Michael Walsh (United States), Terry Clemans (United States), Huang Fuqi (Taiwan), Edward Irons (United States), Cha Seon-geun (South Korea), and David Kim (Australia), presented and discussed various academic perspectives on religion, philosophy, and science to address the world civilizational crisis. In particular, Eileen Barker, a world-renowned scholar of new religious movements, emphasized the need for a paradigm shift from "what religions should do" to "what religions should not do" to solve the crisis of human civilization. Bae Gyu-han, Director of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences, argued that global practice of Haewon Sangseon is necessary for humanity to move towards a permanent world of peace in which humanity and nature are in harmony. Sung-min Ryu, former President of the Korean Association for Religious Studies, suggested that religion should be on the curve where peace is more important than war on the hyperbola of war and peace. Massimo Introvigne, President of CESNUR, said that the World Sangsaeng Forum International Academic Conference has now become a major international academic conference. Livia Kohn, President of the International Taoism Association, evaluated that the World SangSaeng Forum has played a role in the time when scholars and religious leaders from various countries and cultures need to meet and discuss in person to solve the world civilizational crisis. Participants said that the conference was a precious and meaningful time to examine the accumulated conflicts, clashes, and civilizational crises in the world, and at the same time, to newly examine and discuss various ideologies and theories that resolve them. In his welcome address, Yoon Eun-do, President of Daejin University (President of Yeoju Headquarters Temple Complex of Daesoon Jinrihoe), said, "This World SangSaeng Forum was a meaningful occasion to discuss the essential role of religion in coping with the various crises that threaten human civilization today. It has become an international academic conference where scholars and religious leaders from home and abroad gather in one place to communicate and exchange ideas under one theme." In his closing remarks, Bae Gyu-han said, "The 3rd World SangSaeng Forum was a meaningful time to academically discuss the ideas and wisdom of humanity on the civilizational crisis beyond the meaning of the conference theme. It was a timely academic conference that explored serious and interesting topics to find ideas, logic, and wisdom that would help overcome and solve the global complex crises that humanity is facing."
2023-11-06
