Daesoon Institute of Religion and Culture and Beijing University Religion and Culture Institute held a joint international conference on "the Idea of Immortals Embedded in East Asian Tao Culture" from July 7 and 8 in Beijing, China.

The conference was a forum for sound academic debate of Korea, China and Japan. From Daesoonjinrihoe, Seongam Cha Seon-Geun(Daesoon Institute of Religion and Culture) gave a presentation titled "Theories on Immortal Realm in Korea during Modern and Contemporary History-Focused on Immortal Realm-." It's the conference's 3rd year and the conference emerged to be the only place for in-depth discussions and presentations based on East Asian traditional religions

From Korea, Hwang Seon-Myeong(former president of Korea Assoc. of New Religions), Chinese Rep. Prof. Kim Hun and Prof. Wang Zong-Yu(Beijing University) and from Japan, Hachiya Kunia(Honorary Prof. at Tokyo University) presented their researches at the conference. They agreed to continue to research on traditional cultures based on Tao of  the three countries paying attention to the different aspects resulted from each country's circumstances.