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| ▲ During the PyeongChang Olympic Games in February 2018, IOC President Thomas Bach is in conversation with President Moon Jae-in, North Korea Delegation President Kim Young-nam, the Assembly Standing Committee Supreme People’s and Kim Yeo-jeong, the first vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Labor Party. | |
| Ⓒ Lee Hee-hoon |
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The Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation (President Yeom Jae-ho) announced on the 23rd that it had selected IOC President Thomas Bach as the recipient of the 15th Seoul Peace Prize.
The judging committee consisting of eight people from all walks of life revealed that President Bach participated in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics in North Korea, contributing not only to the successful organization of the Olympics, but also to establish an opportunity to build peace on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia.
He also added that for the first time in Olympic history, South Korea and North Korea played a leading role in forming a single women’s ice hockey team.
The committee then praised President Bach’s contribution to promoting the human rights of refugees around the world by participating in the Olympic Agency for Refugees for the first time in history at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as a believer in the Olympic movement to promote peace through sport.
He announced the creation of the Olympic Agency for Refugees at the UN General Assembly in October 2015 and has since allowed 10 refugee athletes from South Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Syria to participate in the Olympic Games in River.
The Seoul Peace Prize was established in 1990 to commemorate the success in organizing the 88th Olympic Games in Seoul, and so far it has been awarded up to 14 times every two years.
President Bach will receive an award, a plaque, and a cash prize of $ 200,000. The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place in Seoul this year.
After hearing the award, President Bach said, “Thank you to the Seoul Peace Prize jury for awarding me a great honor, and I will donate the money to the Olympic Refugee Support Foundation, the Olympic Refugee Agency and some organizations. charities I support. “
Previous winners of the Seoul Peace Prize are as follows.
1st Chair IOC Juan Antonio Samaranchi
Former United States Secretary of State George Schulz
III Medical College Without Borders
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
5th UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata
Sixth International Relief Organization ‘Oxfam’
Former Czech President Vaclav Havel seventh
Eighth President Muhammad Yunus Gramin Bank
President of the 9th Susan Salty Advocacy Forum
X José Antonio Abreu, Founder of El Sistema
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Twelfth German Chancellor Angela Merkel
13 Deni Mouquege, Director of the Panjang Hospital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
14th Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
