In the middle of March I was asked to come to Korea for a STF Leaders Meeting. I took this opportunity of being already in Korea to visit the Korean and Japanese Second Generation Departments. In this short report I want to share my experience of these few days and my impression of their work.

I already met the leaders and some of the staff members of the Korean and Japanese Second Generation Department from the Leaders Meetings in Alaska with Hyun Jin Nim and events like the Blessing.

The Director of the Korean Second Generation Department is Kyeng Seuk Yoo. He is one of the oldest Blessed Children in Korea and he and his wife have 4 children. Unfortunately, he didn’t have much time when I was there so his right hand man, In Chun Hwang, who is responsible for Second Generation Blessing in Korea, took care of me.

The Korean Second Generation Department is just about 10 minutes by foot from the Seoul Station and right next to the National HQ. The office itself is actually one big room divided into few cubicles, so that each cubicle has space enough for 4 to 6 people. In total, there are enough desks with computers for about 27 people to work. There is also one more meeting room. Right now there are 17 people working full time in the office and another 10 that work part time.

All of them work in a specific area of responsibility, like HARP, Blessing, elementary students or other things. In Chun Hyung took time to share in detail about the work that is going on in the Department and in his area of Second Generation Blessing. That was quite helpful to me, to get an inside look at the organisation. We also discussed different issues about the Blessing and how we can improve our cooperation, especially with the International Blessing Homepage. I was very grateful that he took the time to really explain everything to me and also to be open for any of our ideas or just to hear about how we are working here in Europe.

It’s quite difficult to give an overview on the work that’s happening in Korea. It’s just so complex, because the number of Blessed Children is incredibly high. The work is divided in age groups, for which at least one person is responsible to provide education plans and material. The activities are all done in regions, except the really big workshops that are held in Chung Pyung.

After few days I left for Tokyo in Japan. I was warmly welcomed at the airport by one of my old school friends from my time of study in Korea. He was asked by the Second Generation Department to pick me up, so that I could be picked up by someone that I know.

The Japanese Second Generation Department Director is Hirao Masuyama. He is also one of the oldest Blessed Children in Japan and he has 2 daughters. He has been Director for about 2 years now. The core staffs of the Department are 7 people including him. They take care mostly of HARP and Blessing. Japan is divided into 72 regions and each region has one HARP Leader. That’s already a big task to take care of all those regions and their leaders.

Their office is in a big room with some other departments from the church. There are many more members of the Second Generation who work for our movement in different departments in other offices close by, like the media department, the elementary education department, the Moon World magazine production, etc. All of these departments are doing Second Generation related work with other First Generation church members.

The most impressive building for me was the Hee Won Church (a church building for the Second Generation). It’s a building that has existed for about 10 years and was built for the Second Generation. It has a big chapel room for about 400 people to gather and a few lecture and meeting rooms. There is also an office room with about 6 work places.

The building is used for all kinds of Second Generation meetings and for preparation of activities. The Sunday Service for all members of Second Generation from Tokyo is also held there.

Another nice experience for me was to go through the list of my class mates from my study year 1998 in Korea. I was really happy to hear what they are doing now, few are on STF USA, Korea or Japan, and others are still studying on the Sun Moon University in Korea or studying in Japan. I even met one of my old class mates by coincidence on the street—that was quite a nice surprise.

Both nations took really good care of me. I really felt loved like younger brother. At the same time it’s their natural way of treating guests. I had a really rewarding time, where I could expand my view on things and deepen my relationship with them by seeing their working places and daily schedule. I would like to give all of you the same chance to feel free to visit our Department here in Europe anytime. We would be happy to have you :)

Thank you, IMN,
Emanuel Bauer

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