By Baek Byung-yeul
Far East Broadcasting Firm (FEBC)-Korea hosted a live performance on the John F. Kennedy Heart for the Performing Arts in Washington on Friday, commemorating the 79th anniversary of Korea’s liberation and the 71st anniversary of the 1953 Korean Armistice Settlement which ended hostilities of the 1950-53 Korean Struggle.
The live performance featured about 700 youngsters from FEBC-Korea’s 13 regional youngsters’s choirs, in response to the worldwide Christian radio community’s Korea department.
The live performance has been held yearly by FEBC-Korea since 2011, touring varied cities throughout Korea. That is the station’s second efficiency in the USA, following the primary in 2016 at Carnegie Corridor in New York.
“We organized this live performance to reinforce the constructive picture of Korea’s future to the worldwide viewers gathered in Washington, D.C., by way of the efficiency of harmless youngsters, to provide energy and braveness to Korean Individuals and to encourage pleasure as Korean residents and a need for peaceable unification of the Korean Peninsula within the subsequent era,” Billy Kim, chairperson of FEBC-Korea, mentioned.
President Yoon Suk Yeol mentioned in a congratulatory message, “I consider this live performance shall be a chance to recollect the preciousness of freedom and affirm the robust relationship of the Korea-U.S. alliance.” Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gave a welcoming handle, with different outstanding U.S. political figures additionally attending the occasion.
A day earlier than the live performance, the kids’s choir, together with the Korea-U.S. Alliance Basis, held a wreath-laying ceremony on the Korean Struggle Veterans Memorial on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, honoring those that fought within the Korean Struggle.
On the ceremony, the choir sang the nationwide anthems of each Korea and the U.S., in addition to well-known tunes “God Bless America” and “Wonderful Grace.”
By way of their songs, the kids remembered the veterans who responded to their nation’s name to guard the nation and its individuals and conveyed gratitude and luxury to the Americans gathered there. Guests to the memorial park responded with applause, in response to FEBC-Korea.