TSQ Ad Campaign for Peace in Korea
Good News!
7/31, Our recent YouTube videos and other platforms, such as TikTok and Facebook Reels, have been a tremendous success, reaching over 140,000 views in just several days. Let’s build on this momentum and aim to reach an even larger audience by this Sunday. We also reached out to the 300 national assembly members in Korea. Starting next Monday, we will be reaching out to the 435 legislators in the U.S. Congress and White House with our peace messages. We deeply appreciate your support in sharing the video widely.
7/19, two videos below are scheduled to run in Times Square, New York City, Manhattan for one week, from Monday, July 22, through Sunday, July 28, informing the existence of the unresolved Korean War and signaling there is still hope in this prolonged conflict. We believe the recent deadlock and escalating tension in the military and politics are the consequences of both politically inoperative actions and inopportune inactions. Campaigning peace in Korea, we hope to channel this pent-up aspiration for peace and reunification in Korea and ultimately to connect with people suffering any form of violence, including war, by demonstrating the united people’s power in closing the decades-long hostility.
Times Square Korea Peace Campaign
The Korea Peace Video prepared by the Korean American Peace Fund (KAPF) began showing on the large Times Square electronic screen in the middle of Manhattan on Monday the 22nd.
Ahead of the Armistice Agreement Anniversary on July 27th, from July 22nd (Monday) to July 28th (Sunday) , there will be (1) urging declaration of the end of the war ( 2 ) 71 years of armistice is too long (3) messages urging the conclusion of a peace agreement. Two 30 - second videos are shown an average of 480 times per day for a total of 1680 minutes (28 hours).
KAPF 's Times Square Korea Peace Video Campaign is an effort to inform American society of the unfinished Korean War and to urge American public opinion to pay attention and act, as military tensions on the Korean Peninsula are worsening day by day and the war crisis is escalating. KAPF plans to launch a campaign every year to upload Times Square videos for peace in Korea.
KAPF President Yu Soung Mun said, “We will send letters and videos announcing this campaign to all U.S. Congressmen and Korean National Assembly members to raise awareness of the war crisis on the Korean Peninsula and urge policies for peace.”
Yong Yi Yoo, who lives in New York and appears in this video, said, “For me, who experienced the Korean War first-hand, the important meaning of this campaign is to earnestly hope that our descendants will not have to go through the painful things I went through.” Yoo's mother, a soldier's wife , had to live separated from her children during the Korean War and suffered separation throughout the war.
Becky Belcore, a Korean adoptee, also appears in the video. He expressed his intention to participate in the campaign by saying, “The Korean War created many war orphans,” and “200,000 of them were adopted overseas, and I am one of them.”
Ana Yang, a second- generation Korean living in Chicago, also appears in the video holding a poster calling for the signing of a peace agreement. He said, “Growing up, I heard stories from my family about the divided Korean Peninsula,” and “I participate in the peace campaign because I know that deep emotions and cultural divisions still persist.”
KAPF supports the Korean Peninsula Peace Act (HR1369) currently being submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives and is appealing for participation in supporting the bill through the Times Square video. This bill (1) calls for serious and urgent diplomacy to pursue a binding peace agreement to formally end the war on the Korean Peninsula ; (2) requires a report from the Secretary of State outlining a clear roadmap for achieving a durable peace agreement on the Korean Peninsula; (3) ) The Secretary of State is conducting negotiations with North Korea to establish liaison offices in the capitals of North Korea and the United States . (4) The Secretary of State is conducting a comprehensive review of travel sanctions against North Korea, especially for those who wish to visit North Korea for family -related events. We are calling on you to carry out this and submit a report to Congress outlining the eligibility criteria for exemption from the restrictions.
KAPF, which was formed in March 2023, (1) reduces U.S. military spending in Korea and around the world and puts it into the U.S. health / welfare budget ; (2) stops and reduces excessive ROK -U.S. war exercises , and reduces the military spending of the U.S. and South and North Korea; We work with the goal of stopping competition (3) concluding a peace agreement between the United States and the United States, declaring the end of the war, and negotiating for peace between South and North Korea with the United States (4) creating a Korea and the world free of nuclear weapons and nuclear threats.
