Korea

Good Responses to
“Alternative Living”


By Seoul News Group (Originally in Korean)

 


Daegu

On March 12, 2006, sisters and brothers from Daegu City and nearby locations gathered at the city’s center to distribute “Alternative Living” flyers and provide free samples of vegetarian food to the public.

Some initiates dressed in animal costumes that caught the children’s attention and who happily approached them to see the very cute animals. Some even had their pictures taken with them. Three children who became good friends with the animals joined the campaign to distribute Alternative Living flyers to Daegu citizens, and even followed the initiates back to Daegu Center and joined them for tea.

In order to introduce young people to a compassionate lifestyle through vegetarian living, a Daegu sister who is a schoolteacher posted the flyer and News Magazine articles about vegetarianism on the board in her class so that her students could learn more about vegetarianism.

 


Seoul

From March 21 through March 24, 2006, the Seoul International Food Expo was held at Kintex and about 600 business groups from 50 countries participated in the biggest food exhibition ever held in Korea. Every day the venue was filled with a tremendous number of visitors including more than 50,000 professions in the food industry.

This exhibition offered the best opportunity to disseminate “Alternative Living” because people from the food industry, some specializing in food ingredients, beverages, confectionery, baking and catering, attended the event and were the most appropriate targets to publicize vegetarianism. Therefore, fellow initiates from Seoul and Youngdong centers including initiates involved in the food industry participated in the exhibition and actively shared the concepts of “Alternative Living”.

The “Alternative Living” flyers were warmly received by the people, most of whom had already seen the flyer through an advertisement on the subway, making the initiates realize the power of subway promotions. School nutritionists and catering companies showed a considerable interest in soy meat after learning that it would enable them to make clean, healthy, economic and nutritious food at half the price they normally spent.

About 30,000 copies of “Alternative Living” were distributed and a variety of soy meat products were provided for sampling. In addition to this, Seoul center made and distributed special vegetarian information leaflets entitled “One Vegetarian Meal a Day Saves the Earth” raising the awareness among people that vegetarianism is easy to practice. Even people, who had previously declined to be completely vegetarian, were easily convinced that they could begin with one vegetarian meal a day and many of them decided to give it a try .

During this event, the “Love Life - 10 Million-Signatures Collection Campaign” was initiated. The aims of the campaign are threefold:






(1) to have one vegetarian meal a day,

(2) to make a vegetarian option available in group meals within schools, companies, armies and prisons, and

(3) to enforce animal protection laws.

 

At first fellow initiates were worried about how many people would sign in support of the campaign, however, the world has changed now. In only four days about 8,000 people agreed to these aims and voluntarily signed the petition. To thank those who signed, fellow initiates gave each a gift; a vegetarian food can with the “Alternative Living” contents printed on it. Fellow initiates were also moved that people still signed even when the gift was not offered. This signature collection campaign will be continued nationwide and the list of signatures representing people’s hope for vegetarianism will be presented to the National Assembly, the Minister of Education and the National Committee for Humane Rights so that society can become more favorable to vegetarianism.

All day brothers and sisters publicly called out slogans like “One vegetarian meal a day!” “Vegetarianism saves the earth!” “Vegetarianism means love!” all the while displaying selfless service in order to share Master’s messages. They were surprised that as time went on, they became fully charged and felt Master’s boundless grace instead of feeling tired. The initiates witnessed the elevated consciousness of people and their positive response to vegetarianism and were grateful for being messengers of “Alternative Living”.

 

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What can human beings do to deal with repeated outbreaks of epidemic diseases? To address this question and save the lives of countless animals, Master has personally compiled a concise article complete with colorful illustrations entitled “Alternative Living”, providing basic information about vegetarian alternatives to the meat-based diet and a list of the “Vegetarian and Vegan Elite of the World.”
Please refer to http://AL.Godsdirectcontact.org.tw for details. The print version in various languages will be available later. You are welcome to forward, reproduce, reprint or set up an Internet link to this flyer.