WFPL, organizes 1 million signature campaign to fight school violence
Candidates for "2017 Korea Model Leader Awards" to prevent and eliminate school violence on October 31
Sep.29, 2017
President of World Federation of Power Leaders(www.wfple.org, hereinafter "WFPL") announced on the 29th that it will hold the launch ceremony of the 'National People's Movement Headquarters for School Violence Expulsion' on December 19 at the International Press Conference Center on the 20th floor of the Korea Press Center.
Lee San-ha, President of World Federation of Power Leaders, announced a statement on September 25, who proposed 'three ways to resolve school violence' to eradicate school violence, which is getting worse.
Lee San-ha, President of WFPL, said in the statement on the day that she should pay attention to that recently, following the brutal attack on a Busan middle school student by her peers, Busan City Superintendent of Education Kim Suk-joon met with local NGOs to discuss countermeasures and even called together a task force with NGO heads, but eventually reached the conclusion that the prevention of school violence could no longer be resolved by school and educational authorities’ efforts alone.
Lee San-ha, President of WFPL, also emphasized "in order to create safe schools where students can fulfill their dreams, not only schools and educational authorities both also all of society need to actively pitch in. And She suggested "three activities to counter school violence, such as ▲Model Leader Awards for students who actively endeavor to eradicate school violence, ▲The Establishment of a Third Evaluation Agency, ▲Need to Promote the National Movement for the Expulsion of School Violence."
“We can no longer neglect the vicious cycle of the damage of school violence passed onto our second and third generation children who will shoulder the future of Korea as well as all Korean citizens,” said Word Federation president San-ha Lee announced on September 25. “We are setting up a pan-national campaign headquarters to eradicate school violence through continuous pan-national activities until it rooted out.”
WFPL standing advisor Lee Chee-soo (current president of Internet Newspaper Association of Korea) said, “WFPL will separately form a “headquarter for school violence eradication” dedicated to root out school violence and organize regional branches in each region across the nation while starting a 1 million signature campaign.”
Accordingly, WFPL is urging for the participations of individuals, organizations including schools, social groups and companies in the activities for eradicating school violence. You can either join the WFPL homepage (www.wfple.org) as a member or send an email to webmaster@wfple.kr indicating that you want to take part in the activities.
Meanwhile, “the ceremony for the inauguration of pan-national campaign for eradicating school violence” will be held on December 19 with the first part being the inauguration ceremony and the second part being the ‘2017 Korea Model Leader Awards’ ceremony.
‘2017 Korea Model Leaders Awards’ prepared to prevent or eradicate school violence including bullying will present awards to and encourage exemplary students who have participated in voluntary activities and students who have taken the lead in preventing school violence including verbal violence, thereby letting the teachers and students altogether contribute to happy and healthy school environment and awaken the students of the qualities to grow into true leaders.
Model Leader Awards consist of grand prize, gold prize, silver prize, bronze prize and participation prize and will be given to elementary, middle and high school students. The grand prize in particular will be given to each elementary student, one middle school student and one high school student along with certificate of award and plaque while participation awardee will receive certificate of award.
The applications for candidates for Korea Exemplary Leaders Awards will be accepted until October 31, and the awardees will be announced within November. For more details, refer to the notifications on World Federation homepage (www.wfple.org) or Worldyan homepage (www.worldyan.com).
The awards presenting ceremony will be directly held by the World Federation of Power Leaders instead of the initially planned National Youth Institute in order to encourage pan-national support and participation to eradicate school violence.
'2017 Model Leader Awards' hosted by WFPL is supervised by IYRI and Worldyan Media Group Inc. and sponsored by WFPL PRESS CORPS HQ(President Lee San-ha), Internet Newspaper Association of Korea (Chairman: Lee Chee-soo), IPRI, Korean Pharmaceutical Association, KPA News, AsiaTimes(President Cho Yong-ha), News Culture, Sisun News(President Kim Kwang-woong) and Internet Newspaper of Korea (publisher: Lee Chee-soo) and approximately 70 media companies & others.