Lucas Garden

From LoveBridge A charity concert was held in the Jakobs Church in Augsburg, Germany at December 13, 2008, in commemoration of the birth of Christ. It was sponsored by the Korean Christian Congregation in Augsburg , to support North Korean and South Korean children who are patriarch or matriarch. Not only did many competent Korean musicians dedicate opera songs and Korean traditional songs, but also some of them played chamber music with violin, cello, organ, and basson. In particular, a tenor Seunghyun Kim's performance, which was an opera song titled as "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz", received great applause. Also, the concert was followed by delightful and pious chorus performed by the Korean Women's Choir and the Halleluja Parish Choir. A great screen, where German translation had been provided for Korean songs, was a new and striking challenge and attracted audience's attention. From LoveBridge The concert was so successful to arouse people's interest in pit...

Pyongyang has limited all but essential train travel passing over the border between South Korea and North Korea from Dec. 1, limiting access for South Korean technicians and officials. The stand off has resulted in yet another serious deadlock in the relationship between two Koreas and brings the present South Korean government hardline policy to a crossroads. The latest antipathy comes as a result of North Korea's disquiet towards the South's President Lee Myung-bak's "nuclear-free, opening, $3,000" North Korea policy. The plan, in essence, states that South Korea will support the DPRK economically until the per capita income of North Korea reaches $3,000 on the strict condition that North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons program and opens up its economy. This policy is a contrast with the more liberal "Sunshine Policy" pursued by more moderate South Korean governments over the past decade. First proposed by former president Kim Dae-jung, the sunshin...