Sounds of Peace—More than a Utopia: Isang Yun
摘要
In early October 2000, I received a letter from South Korea with a concert programme enclosed. The sender was the Forum of Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific, an organization sponsored by the Kim Dae-Jung Foundation. There was an invitation to a concert, ‘Sounds of Peace’, at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul on 19 October. The aim was to celebrate ‘peace and harmony, which radiate from the South-North [Korea] Joint Declaration of 15 June 2000’. Famous pop musicians would be appearing there: ‘Together they will echo a message of world peace through the symbolic harmonies of sound’, as the invitation put it.