{"id":5021,"date":"2023-11-27T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2023-12-01T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T08:12:58","slug":"news-gangneung-city-gangwon-province-south-korea-awards-the-title-of-honorary-citizenship-to-ikeda-sensei-and-mrs-ikeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/news-gangneung-city-gangwon-province-south-korea-awards-the-title-of-honorary-citizenship-to-ikeda-sensei-and-mrs-ikeda\/","title":{"rendered":"[NEWS] Gangneung City, Gangwon Province, South Korea awards the title of \u201cHonorary Citizenship\u201d to Ikeda Sensei and Mrs. Ikeda"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recognition of Ikeda Sensei and Mrs Ikeda\u2019s Contributions to the Development of the Community and the Culture and Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mayor and National Assembly Members attended the award ceremony.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated from <\/span>Seikyo<\/span> Shimbun article <\/span>on 21 November 2023.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Mayor Kim (sixth from the right), guests and SGI representatives pose for a commemorative photograph at the conferral ceremony (at Gangneung Gyeonghwa Culture Center) where the title of \u201cHonorary Citizenship\u201d was awarded by Gangneung City, South Korea.<\/p><\/div>\n

The title of \u201chonorary citizenship\u201d was conferred upon Daisaku Ikeda Sensei and Mrs Kaneko Ikeda by Gangneung City, Gangwon Province, South Korea.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This award extolled the recipient for his leadership in developing the local community and his great contribution to culture and education.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The conferral ceremony started at 2 pm on 18 Nov at Korea SGI\u2019s Gangneung Honor Culture Centre to celebrate the anniversary of Soka Gakkai\u2019s founding. The event was attended by Mayor Kim Han-Guen, National Assembly member Kweon Seong-dong, and City Council President Kim Ki-young, as well as SGI Korea General Director Kim In-soo, Women Division chief Kim Hyong-hee, and 300 representatives from the Gangwon 1 region. The award was conferred just before the news of Ikeda’s passing was released.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gangneung City is situated in the north-eastern part of South Korea. The traditional Gangneung Danoje Festival was designated as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2005 and entertains many people inside and outside Korea. It is also the birthplace of the oldest novel written in Hangul and a famous poet.<\/p><\/div>\n

The members of SGI have been expanding the movement in this area for many years, including cleaning activities, donating books to educational institutions, and holding “Happiness Concerts” to which friends from the neighbourhood are invited. These activities were highly praised, and the Gangneung City Council presented the Sensei and Mrs Ikeda with a \u201cspecial commendation plaque.\u2019\u201d in March 2014.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Currently, Mayor Kim Han-Guen takes the lead in the city’s administration, holding up an ideal to place the citizen as the centre of focus. Through interactions with the members and understanding from Hua Kwang newspaper (Korea SGI’s official newspaper), he has learned about the thoughts and actions of Sensei and Mrs Ikeda, and strengthened his sense of trust and empathy in them.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Honorary citizenship Plaque for Ikeda Sensei<\/p><\/div>\n

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Honorary citizen Card for Ikeda Sensei<\/p><\/div>\n

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Honorary citizenship Plaque for Mrs. Kaneko Ikeda<\/p><\/div>\n

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Honorary citizen Card for Mrs. Kaneko Ikeda<\/p><\/div>\n

At the conferral ceremony, Mayor Kim handed out honorary citizenship plague and honorary citizencard to General Director Kim In-soo and Women Division chief Kim Hyong-hee, respectively, and thunderous applause filled the venue. The honorary citizenship plaque is engraved with the words, \u201cIn order to honour your achievements and form eternal connection with Gangneung City, we raise the will of the citizens and present you with an honorary citizen card.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>In his congratulatory speech, Mayor Kim Han-Guen deeply expressed his gratitude to SGI members for their continued contributions to the local community, including their support for the restoration from the forest fire that occurred in Gangneung City in April. Thereafter, he praised Sensei and Mrs. Ikeda for the achievements in dedicating themselves to world peace and exerting themselves for the Japanese-Korean friendship, and joyfully welcomed them as honorary citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

source: https:\/\/www.seikyoonline.com\/article\/F7FA2167029F9951E293BA24A3095A0E<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On November 18, 2023, Sensei and Mrs Ikeda were conferred Honorary Citizenship from Gangneung City, Gangwon Province, South Korea. This marks the inaugural posthumous award bestowed upon Sensei. <\/p>\n

<\/br> Click to read full article published on Seikyo Shimbun.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-27nov","category-news-feed","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5734,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daisakuikedalegacy.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}