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Founder 美源 Dr. Young Seek Choue
ㆍ Founder-Chancellor
ㆍ Kyung Hee University System
Perpetual-President-Emeritus
ㆍ International Association of University Presidents Honorary President
ㆍ GCS InternationalCo-Convener, the 1999 Seoul
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Dr. Young Seek CHOUE was born in Woon San, Pyungbook Province, Korea in 1921 and graduated from Department of Laws, Seoul National University in 1950. In 1951, he established Shinheung Junior College, and Kyung Hee University (KHU) in 1955. Since then, he has developed KHU into a comprehensive educational institution inclusive of kindergarten to graduate school programs.
After successfully developing the Rural Enlightenment Movement in the early 1950s together with the faculties and students of KHU, Dr. Choue continued to initiate and carry out the following social programs and movements: the Better Living Movement, Rural Service Activities, Free Medical Service Activities, the GCS Movement, the World Peace Movement, and the Movement for Reconstructing Human Society. By doing so, he expanded and strengthened the function of the university to include social service activities as well as academic research.
Furthermore, to bring about academic development through friendly ties and mutual cooperation among universities and to promote world peace and human welfare through higher education, he proposed and founded the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP). Its inauguration conference was held in Oxford University, United Kingdom, in June 1965.
At the 4th Triennial Conference of the IAUP held in Boston, U.S.A. in 1975, Dr. Choue proposed "the Boston Declaration" to promote the GCS Movement in full and worldwide scale. The ultimate goal of this GCS Movement was to overcome the adverse effects of contemporary materialistic civilization such as disrespect for human dignity alienation of human beings; and to improve modern human society into a better and more desirable one by harmonizing the spiritual culture and the materialistic civilization.
During the 1980s, when the superpowers were competing in a massive arms race by producing innumerable weapons of mass destruction, Dr. Choue proposed the establishment of the International Day and Year of Peace at the 6th Triennial Conference of the IAUP held in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1981. He contributed greatly to promoting world peace by playing a pivotal role in encouraging the UN to adopt his proposal and promulgate the UN International Day (the third Tuesday of every September) and Year (1986) of Peace.
Dr. Choue received over 100 honors and awards from many countries and world organizations like the UN, wrote over 50 books including Democratic Freedom, The Creation of a Civilized World, Reconstruction of the Human Society, and Oughtopia, and presented and delivered over 120 papers and keynote speeches at national and international conferences. He has received 34 Honorary Doctorates from many world-renowned universities since the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Miami University, U.S.A. in 1959.
Dr. Young Seek Choue, the proponent and its first International President, was appointed as the Honorary President of the GCS International on November 4, 2006.
￭ Co-Initiators of the GCS Movement (77 world leaders)
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| H.E. Diosdado Macapagal |
Ex-President Republic, Philippines |
| H.E. Po Sun Yun |
Ex-President Republic, Korea |
| H.E. Rodrigo Carazo Odio |
Ex-President Republic, Costa Rica |
| Hon E. De La Mata |
President, International League of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Spain |
| Hon. Nagendra Singh |
President, International Court of Justice, Holland |
| Hon. Bohdan Lewandowski |
Ex-Under-Secretary-General, the United Nations, Poland |
| Dr. Charls Huggins |
Nobel Laureate(1966), U.S.A. |
| H.E. Fidel Sanchez |
Ex-President, El Salvador |
| Dr. Gunnar |
Myrdal Nobel Laureate(1974), Sweden |
| Dr. Aurelio Peccei |
President, The club of Rome, Italy |
| Dr. F. H. Hinsley |
Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University, U.K. |
| Dr. Hubert Niederlander |
Rector, Heidelberg University,Federal Republic of Germany |
| Dr. Peter De Somer |
Rector, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
| Dr. Seiji Kaya |
President-Emeritus, Tokyo University, Japan |
| Dr. Alhaji Ado Bayero |
Prime Minister, Nigeria |
| Dr. Henry King Stanford |
President, University of Miami, U.S.A. |
| Dr. Alexander Prokhorov |
Nobel Laureate (1964), USSR |
| Dr. R. C. Mehrotra |
Chancellor, University of Delhi, India |
| Dr. J. P. Duminy |
Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town,Republic of South Africa |
| Dr. Ho Sang Ahn |
President, Korea GCS Club National HQs, Former Minister of Education, Republic of Korea |
| H.E. Dr. Shafik Abrahim |
Deputy Speaker of the Senate, National Assembly,Egypt |
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￭ History
| 1970s |
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 Adoption of the Declaration of the Brighter Society Movement at the Kyung Hee school conference |
| Adoption of the Boston Declaration containing the principles of the GCS Movement at the 4th IAUP Conference |
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Adoption of the Teheran Declaration officially proclaiming the worldwide GCS Movement at the 5th IAUP Conference |
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Inauguration of the GCS Korea Chapter |
Inauguration of the GCS International Headquarters in Seoul
The first annual conference of the GCS International |
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| 1980s |
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Inauguration of the first GCS overseas chapter in India |
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Establishment of the "UN International Day of Peace" and the "UN International Year of Peace" proposed by President Young Seek Choue of the GCS International |
| Free Medical Service in Thailand, a ghetto near the Cambodian border |
| The first annual commemorative ceremony for the UN International Day of Peace |
| Establishment of the GCS Thailand Club |
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Establishment of GCS Taiwan Chapter |
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Establishment of GCS Sydney Club |
| Dr. Young Seek Choue, the President of GCS International receiving the UN Peace Medal from the Secretary-General of the UN |
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Establishment of GCS Macau Chapter, GCS Toyota Club |
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GCS Korea Chapter Charity Concert for the Blind |
Commemorative Ceremony & International Conference
GCS Charity Concert for the UN Peace Fund (collection of contribution was passed on to the UN)
GCS Event for World Peace Torch relayed around the globe
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Establishment of GCS Ginjo Club, GCS Higashi-ku Club, and GCS Chile Club |
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Commemorative Opera "Choonhyangjun" by the Seoul Opera for the International Year of Peace (Queen's University, New York) |
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Establishment of GCS Tokyo Club, GCS Yokohama Club |
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Establishment of GCS Malaysia Chapter, GCS Thailand Chapter, GCS Philippines Chapter |
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| 1990s |
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| Establishment of GCS Chicago Club, GCS Argentina Chapter, GCS Brazil Chapter, GCS Colombia Chapter, GCS Costa Rica Chapter, GCS Mexico Chapter |
| Establishment of the "UN International Day of Peace" and the "UN International Year of Peace" proposed by President Young Seek Choue of the GCS International |
| Fund-raising for the starving Somalia children in Africa |
| Fund-raising for the child victims from the Chernobyl nuclear accident |
| GCS International entry to UN NGO/DPI |
A special program of 'Hand-in-Hand for the Reunion of Separated Families in
Korea' Establishment of GCS Hawaii Club |
| Establishment of GCS Nagoya Club, GCS Belgium Chapter, GCS Kazakhstan Chapter, GCS Sakha Chapter, GCS L.A. Club |
| A signature collection-drive for the reunion of separated familiees in Korea (collected 21,202,129 signatures in 153 countries) |
| Establishment of GCS Beijing Club, GCS Henan Club, GCS China Culture University Club |
| The World Youth Leaders Conference in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UN |
| Free medical service grants in Alma Mata, the Republic of Kazakhstan, CIS |
| Establishment of GCS Ukraine Chapter, GCS Paraguay Chapter, GCS Chile Chapter, GCS New York club, GCS Jilin Club, GCS Liao Ning Club, GCS Changchun Club, GCS Taiwan Da Hua University Club |
| The UN Special Award of Meritorious Services on Peace to Dr. Young Seek Choue |
| GCS L.A. Club Multi-Cultural Leadership Korea Visitation Program (annual event) |
Grant of the special consultative status with the UN ECOSOC, (GCS entry as an UN-NGO)
GCS-KBS joint medical service to the Korean resident in Sakhalin
Income-doubling program for the Korean resident in Yianbian, China |
| Conferring of the Great World Peace Award by the Oughtopia Peace Foundation upon the former UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. |
| Co-hosting of the 1999 Seoul International Conference of NGOs |
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| 2000s |
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| Establishment of GCS Kenya Chapter and GCS Mongol Chapter |
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GCS International Annual Convention in New Delhi, India |
| Free Medical Service in Ulan Bator, Mongolia |
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Establishment of GCS Uruguay Chapter, GCS Peru Chapter |
| Medical support to the India Chapter and support for the better living movement in India |
| GCS voluntary service and supply of information booklet for the World Cup 2002 |
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Oriental medical service grant in Russia |
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The GCS International Annual Convention in Manila, Philippines and International Academic Peace Conference for 22nd commemoration of the International Day of Peace |
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Prize awards for right conduct by GCS Korea Chapter for national high-school students |
| GCS International Annual Convention in Seoul, Korea and Commemoration of the International Day of Peace |
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Relief funds for the tsunami victims in Sri Lanka |
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GCS International Annual Convention and the inauguration of the 2nd president of the GCS International, Dr. Chungwon Choue |
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￭ Contact Us
GCS International Headquarters
115-3 Gwonnong-dong, Chongno-gu Seoul 100-380, Republic of Korea
Tel. (02) 743-5934, (02) 743-5932 Fax. (02) 743-5935
Email. gcs@khu.ac.kr
Website. www.gcs-ngo.org
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