<table id=cafe_editor_main_table_color bgColor='#e4f7ba' cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=100%><tr><td id=cafe_editor_main_table class=text><p><br></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(102, 75, 0); font-size: 14pt;">Korean laypeople to be honored with awards </span><!--Search Word Highlight--><span style="color: rgb(102, 75, 0); font-size: 14pt;"> </span></strong></p><div style="width: 100%; height: auto; float: left;"><h3 class="printexcerpt" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> Award has three categories: love, culture and justice and peace </h3></div><div style="width: 100%; height: auto; float: left;"><div style="width: 22%; height: auto; margin-top: 20px; float: left;"><h4> December 12, 2016 </h4></div></div><div class="share_box"><!--<div class="share_1">
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</p></div></div></div><div class="printcontent"><p>The Catholic Lay Apostolate Council of Korea has announced the winners of the 33rd Catholic Grand Awards who will be honored at a Dec. 13 ceremony at the Catholic Center in Myeongdong, Seoul.</p><p><br></p><p>The lay council announced on Dec. 1 that it had selected nurse, Theresa Cho Bong-sook, film director, Cho Jung-rae and activist, Theresa Kim Sun-shil.</p><p><br></p><p>Theresa Cho, the love category winner has been doing volunteer work in North Chungcheong province since 1976. After retiring from Youido St. Mary’s Hospital in 1987, she started volunteering at a hospice. In 2002, she donated all of her belongings to the Catholic University of Korea, her alma mater, and to Kkottongnae University.</p><p><br></p><p>Film director, Cho was chosen for the culture award after producing the film, <em>Spirits’ Homecoming</em>. The movie was based on the true story of former comfort woman, Kang Il-chool and was released in February 2016. Currently, the movie is screening around the world to show the truth about comfort women under Japanese occupation.</p><p><br></p><p>Theresa Kim, the justice and peace category winner, had seen the sorrow of the comfort women as co-representative of the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan and director of the War and Women's Human Rights Museum.</p><p><br></p><p>The annual award started in 1982 and has three categories: love, culture and justice and peace.</p><p><br></p><p>Watch the trailer for Theresa Cho Bong-sook's film <em>Spirits’ Homecoming:</em></p><p><em><br></em></p><p><iframe width="100%" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/14l4l9GNrss" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p></div><div class="re_box"><h4 style="margin-bottom: 3px;">Related Reports</h4><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ucanews.com/news/korean-dioceses-end-mercy-year-with-calls-for-more-charity/77648"><u><font color="#0066cc"> Korean dioceses end mercy year with calls for more charity </font></u></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ucanews.com/news/korean-catholics-pitch-in-to-help-bolivian-kids/77704"><u><font color="#0066cc"> Korean Catholics pitch in to help Bolivian kids </font></u></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://www.ucanews.com/news/korean-bishops-to-release-reconciliation-manual-/77771"><u><font color="#0066cc"> Korean bishops to release reconciliation manual </font></u></a></li></ul></div><p>
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