Eastern Promise - South Korea; Israel

June 10, 2018

Eastern Promise - South Korea; Israel

Binyanei Hauma
Jerusalem
June 7 2018
2nd year in Israel
This organization began to perform in NY in support of Israel in 2013

Invited by Chanoch Youk
Pictures: Jieun : volunteer

Danny Song
Yay won chung
Dancers

History:
Israel and South Korea both founded in 1948
It was Jewish soldiers from America who came and defended south Korea and their freedom in the Korean War 1950.
This is a Christian organization and these Asian Christians take on the responsibility to ask forgiveness and make amends to jews for the actions of Christians in europe in the holocaust.
Israel and Korea has a unique connection in the fight for freedom, dignity and human rights.

It was Jewish soldiers who helped liberate South Korea when the North invaded, Jews who joined the American army and participated in this global fight for freedom. Before their independence, Korea was a colonized gulag undeo imperialist Japan, and it was an American President with deep ties to the Jewish community from back in his youth who courageously ordered the deployment of the atom bomb that led the west to decisive victory in this case as well. I don't know if this is true, but in high school we learned that Harry Truman, as a child, worked as a "Shabbos Goy (helper)" for his Jewish neighbors. In exchange he partook in their cholent and other Shabbos food. Supposedly his favorite was Matzo.

Here's the website~

Name of the organization is KCSJ

(Korean Christians for Shalom Jerusalem)

https://www.kcsj-israel.com/

The first ever "First Lady": Franziska Donner, was Austrian Jew.

While the European Jews were persecuted by Nazis, at the same time, Korea was colonized and persecuted by Japanese Empire

Korea was liberated in 15.8.1945

Kore was colonized for 36 years.

Here is a further description of the organization from Daniel Treiman of Tablet magazineTablet magazine.

While less than a third of South Korea’s population is Christian, the country is sometimes called an evangelical superpower. Until fairly recently, South Korea sentmore Christian missionaries abroad than any country other than the United States. And like their American counterparts, Korean evangelicals often feel very warmly toward the State of Israel—none more so than Mansuk Song, the Seoul-based founder of Korean Christians for Shalom Israel. During the opening festivities, a video played in which Song, accompanied by the mournful theme music from Schindler’s List, recounted in Korean how the existence of modern Israel had led him to question traditional Christian teachings that God had forsaken the Jews, and the shame he felt learning about the Holocaust and historic Christian anti-Semitism. “I made a decision to spend the rest of my life to comfort the Jewish people,” he said.

This idea of comforting Jews, I later learned, is inspired by Isaiah 40:1: “Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God.” But could even a biblical prophet have foreseen this exhortation someday being carried out in New York via fashion shows, martial arts displays, and bilingual biblical operas?