Giving Back
In Korea has duty to rest of world, Yoon Hyun-bong, General Secretary of Korea NGO Council for Overseas Cooperation, writes about the enormous amount of aid Korea received after the Korean War, and the responsibilty the now-wealthy country has to the rest of the world:
In Korea has duty to rest of world, Yoon Hyun-bong, General Secretary of Korea NGO Council for Overseas Cooperation, writes about the enormous amount of aid Korea received after the Korean War, and the responsibilty the now-wealthy country has to the rest of the world:
- "...Korea's share of official development assistance is 0.06 percent of GNP, 10 times less than 0.6 percent, a figure recommended by the OECD and less than 0.22 percent, the average of OECD member countries. As the biggest beneficiary and a successful example of development assistance from abroad, it is a pitifully low level. We rail at the conglomerates and resent stingy rich people, but we don't realize that we may appear like stingy rich people to the world."
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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