Sun Myung Moon
September 27, 1988
Hannam-dong Residence, Seoul, Korea
Compiled by Taekon Lee
On September 17, 1988, True Parents announced at the Hannam-dong Residence that they would hold the ‘World Culture and Sports Festival’ at an assembly for leaders from 120 nations. Main daily newspapers in Korea reported the proclamation of the World Culture and Sports Festival, and there was a press conference at the Seoul Sheraton Grande Walkerhill Hotel. After preparing for more than four years, the First World Culture and Sports Festival was held in Seoul during August, 1992. (Materials provided by the FFWPU History Compilation Committee)
"Think about holding an ideal families’ blessing event as a cultural event that has never happened i human history, at the Olympic Stadium, through satellite. Would people want to see an Olympic game or a blessing event? With live broadcast through satellite, it would show Reverend Moon standing in the center betrothing couples. People would say that they would watch that, wouldn’t they? They have interest in that. They don’t have interest in other things. How many young people of the world would take interest in it? They would easily all be tied into pairs. If we tell them our statistics of a wonderful spiritual union, such as the number of those who did not separate and that it has a 100 percent effect on the birth problem, it will become an opportunity to completely embrace the young people. "(The Sermons of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Book 182 P.22, 1988.10.04)