[Sept. 22] A Music Concert was held for imprisoned Dr. Song Kang-Ho
There was a music concert for Dr. Song Kang-Ho who was violently arrested
on April 1 (click HERE for reference) and met his 175th day in jail as
of Sept. 22. The concert title was ‘ A Song for the Gangjeong and Hope.’
In the photo, Song Saem, his daughter played a cello.
(photo by Daegwi Lee,
forwarded by Lim Ho-Young)
Dr. Song Kang-Ho has sent a long letter
from the Jeju prison on Sept. 19. Here are the excerpts:
“The hope of Gnagjeong is the hope for
justice and peace. The people have sung a song of hope for more than six years.
Your concert is to spread the song of hope. I think your concert is beautiful.
It is because the most beautiful song is the song for peace.
[..]
The prison that confines me is what jails our church and nation. You are jailed
with me, too. Please sing a song for freedom. Please call for justice. And
please sing a song for peace. Please sing the most beautiful song in the world,
which defeats the evil spirits of violence and war that tie us.”
(Letter forwarded by Choi Hye-Young, translated)
His book, titled, 'Peace, walking on the hope from the far-back: Song
Kang-Ho’s Stories for Peace from Rwanda to Gangjeong 평화 그 아득한 희망을 걷다- 르완다에서 강정 까지 송강호의 평화 이야기' will be published by the IVP on Oct. 8, 2012.
Information and photo by Ho-Young Lim and Abigail you