Internet：The Best Tool For Peace

 miyoomo∣西元2010年08月28日

Internet：The Best Tool For Peace

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This video is a documentary based on a peace project that was centered on the 2010 World Cup period this past summer. By use of the Internet, we were able to complete this project within three weeks, even though portions of the project came from various countries around the world, including America, South Korea, Qatar, and China. Our common goal for global peace is what connected us idealistically, but the Internet was the pathway from which our ideas could be connected physically.

During this period, the political environment in the Korean peninsula was very volatile. Using this climate to our advantage, without exacerbating the situation, Miyoomo (an online-based community of Korean international students in the US) created a project that would emphasize the need for peace by metaphorically using the World Cup situation.

For the first time in 44 years, North Korea participated in the World Cup this summer, making headlines internationally. This kind of public acknowledgment of global cooperation, despite the political and social dissent, was very meaningful in the eyes of Miyoomo members. Through this metaphor, we wanted to send a message of global unity and peace, not just for North Korea, but for everyone.

With the help of Berklee College of Music students, "Become One" was created as a message of peace to East Asia during the 2010 World Cup. The core idea behind the song and music video was to plead with North Korea to elicit a more peaceful environment and thereby encourage the rest of the world to do the same.

One of the most moving scenes during the World Cup was when cameras caught North Korean player Jung, Tea Se crying during the playing of the national anthem. We interpreted his tears to represent the struggle in obtaining peace for such a war-torn, poverty-stricken area. As a result, we decided to emphasize this and make the message more accessible by creating a music video about it.

By utilizing the Internet, we gathered the ideas we wanted to emphasize in the song from members in many different countries. All of our collaboration and brainstorming could not have been possible without a means of efficiently communicating globally, which is exactly what the Internet has provided. Through social networking, we were able to successfully complete and distribute a message of peace and humanity to all corners of the world.


Produced by MiYooMo (www.miyoomo.com)
Executive Director: Sean Kim
Assistant Director: Eunice Choi
Editing and Animation: Eunice Choi
T-Shirt Design : Eunice Choi
Technical Advisor: Justin Long, Heeyong Daniel Jang, Albert Hyukjae Kwon,

Music (Become One)

Composition: Jung Eun Kwon
Lyrics: Jongchan Marco Baek
Vocals: Jourdan Rystrom, Faustina Abad Sokolov, Jiyoon June Dong
Mixing Engineer Dongeun Ray Kim