[MANNAM Int’L ]Why don’t you try MANNAM culture club? : MANNAM Judo Class

[MANNAM Int’L ]Why don’t you try MANNAM culture club? : MANNAM Judo Class

Do you feel like you are getting cold easily at these days?

Or you might want to do some exercise or try out some sports?

If you answer ‘yes’ to my questions above, there is an amazing free Judo class for you.

MANNAM International offers free Judo class which runs by pure volunteers.

How amazing is it? You can learn Judo with any charges, and plus you could meet amazing people who love volunteers (since MANNAM is a non-government volunteer association, you could meet many volunteers!)

If you are afraid to join the class because you had never practice Judo, then do not worry about it!

Just contact MANNAM Judo class, then volunteer coach will figure out good solution for you!

If you had tried Judo before and want to improve your Judo skill, still MANNAM Judo class is a good opportunity for you to join. Some members in MANNAM Judo class took part in amateur judo tournament too.

Despite your Judo skill, you are always welcome to visit or join MANNAM Judo class!

There could be slight changes in the MANNAM Judo club schedule.

For more accurate and recent information, I’d strongly recommend you to visit MANNAM Judo Class’ official blog: 
http://mannamjudo.blogspot.kr/

MANNAM Volunteer Association

is a NGO which works for 

better

&

peaceful world.

[MANNAM] Make your heart beating in MANNAM and MIYC!

[MANNAM] Make your heart beating in MANNAM and MIYC!

How are you doing in these days?

I think not only me, but everyone is running around their own cycle.

If there is not really special thing happen, there is no big difference.

Heart beats all the time, but did you had any time that you can feel your heart is beating?

When something is incredible and awesome that touches your mind, you can feel your heart is beating very strongly.

Then, how many times have you had those times?

Actually, I almost didn't had those time a lot before I met MANNAM International.

It doesn't mean I was always boring and didn't had happy time, but compare to how I feel now, I can say there were not special time that I can feel my heart.

However, now, I can confidently introduce you the heart beating work.

It is MANNAM! When I am in MANNAM, joining MANNAM, my heart is always beating strongly.

First, when I am joining MANNAM culture clubs, I feel like I am traveling all around the world.

In that short time, I can experience lots of different cultures.

But the most cool thing is that even we are different, we are looking same thing and work together.

Second, when I go volunteer and do volunteer works. you don't know how exciting it is.

Even though we don't speak same language, we can feel and understand each other when we are sharing love.

By sharing love, we gets warm and with that temperature, we can also warm up the cold world.

Third, I want to introduce one more group. It's MIYC which is a international youth coalition.

As you know MANNAM and MIYC's purpose, we are having many special events for world peace.

As you know, because we are an international group, when we start to make peace in us, this will be the way to make peace in whole world.

There are many international peace groups, but the reason why MANNAM and MIYC are special is that we really gather and work together.

This gathering really inspires each of us and it's motivates us to make world peace.

Even though I don't say why this makes my heart to beat, you can imagine various people being one is amazing things.

So, don't you want to make your heart beating strongly?

For your heart, give chance to have duty to beat as hard as it can.

Once more, I am sure that you will not be disappoint to spend your time with us.

It's not late yet. We are planning awesome project from now on.

Join us! We are hoping to see you on our next event:)

[MANNAM] The Five Cardinal Colors of Korean Food

Hi, MANNAM International friends! Do you like Korean Food? How do you describe Korean food using only one word? You may say “delicious”, “spicy”, or “hot”. If I describe Korean Food with one word, I will choose “colorful”.

Look at the photos above. Do they look delicious? They are three different kinds of Korean Food — “Jeon”, “Kim-bab”, and “Bi-bim-bab”. In each photo, you can find yellow, green, white, red and black. Yellow, white, red, black, and blue are called Korean five cardinal colors.

From the three kinds of colorful Korean Food, we can see Koreans ideas of “What looks good tastes good.” By adding different colored vegetables, Koreans improve not only the nutritional value of food, but also the appearance the dishes.

As Korean Food, MANNAM International Volunteer Association is also colorful. Why MANNAM International is colorful? One may say, “Because we have a wide variety of races, nationalities, languages, religions, and cultures.” Yes. That’s the answer. As members of a colorful volunteer association, let’s unite our hearts and efforts to make a more harmonious world through our volunteerism and peace campaign.

[MANNAM] MANNAM K-POP Flashmob

[MANNAM] MANNAM K-POP Flashmob

Ever since the development of recording technology and online, we are able to access video contents easier than ever before.

Without special technician or special education, it is easier to record and make a video due to advanced technology. For these reasons, online is full of creative and interesting video contents.

One of the categories of video is ‘Flashmob.’

Probably we all know what does flashmob it is, and here is a defined definition of it.

Flash mob is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act for a brief time, and then quickly disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment, satire, and artistic expression.

Then why am I talking about Flashmob?

I wanted to introduce a Flash mob video (perhaps more than one) to you.

One of MANNAM’s cultural clubs, MANNAM K-POP did flashmob in the subway.

They danced the song Twinkle of Girl’s Generation, Ling-ding-dong of SHINEE and Gangnam Style.’

Not all of them are professional dance or professional film director, but they made this MANNAM K-POP flashmob in a way to express their passion. 

They did put hard efforts to make this video, so hope you enjoy this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uHZqqVHI3HY

If you want to see another youTube video, here is another video of MANNAM KPOP Dance Team dancing the song ‘Lollipop’

 [K-POP COVER] Lollipop-Mannam KPOP Dance Team’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64G5jHsVhk8

[MANNAM] “Tae-kwon-do” — “The Way Of The Foot And The Hand”

Hi, MANNAM International friends! Do you know the sport in the photo above? It is a Korean traditional sport called “Tae-kwon-do”. You may have seen Tae-kwon-do performances on TV. In Korean, “tae” means "to strike or break with foot"; “kwon” means "to strike or break with fist"; and “do” means "way", "method", or "path". Thus, “Tae-kwon-do” may be translated as "the way of the foot and the hand”.[1]

Every week, MANNAM International Tae-kwon-do Club members get together and practice "the way of the foot and the hand”. We learn some new skills and perfect older ones we’ve already learned.

If you want to learn Korean sports or do some exercise during weekends, join us. We hope we can together build a strong body as well as spirit through this great sport.

Source: http://mannamischange.blogspot.kr/2013/03/mannam-culture-taekwondo.html

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taekwondo

MANNAM International K-POP “Dong-go-dong-rak” Trip

MANNAM International K-POP “Dong-go-dong-rak” Trip

MANNAM International friends, have you ever heard the word “Dong-go-dong-rak”? It means to “share one´s joys and sorrows”. In MANNAM International Volunteer Association, members share joys and sorrows together. Sometimes we make an effort to work for world peace, and sometimes we get together to have fun time. Here is the video of MANNAM K-Pop “Dong-go-dong-rak” Trip. We hope we can share our happiness with you.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZhyrmxUpf6A#!

[MANNAM] MANNAM JUDO CLUB

MANNAM international offers cultural club to help expactsliving in Korea.

One of them is MANMAM Judo club!

As you know, Judo is a type of material art.

It is registered as also one of Olympic sports since 1964.

It was the sport mainly played among Asian region including China, Japan and Korea, but now Judo is an international sports which played in many countries.

To play Judo, you have to bare foot for safety and there is auniform for its own too.

In MANNAM Judo clubs, you can learn Judo, and there’d be a chance to compete in tournaments too.

To learn more about MANNAM Judo club, it would be nice to listen the real comments about Judo club from its member!

Here is a part of interview done by one of member of MANNAM Judo Club.

“My favourite thing about the judo club is learning judo.

I love judo, because it is fun to throw people (lol) and exercise.

I also like that the people in the judo class are very friendly.

I think the judo club is a very relaxing and friendly place.

I like joking around with the club members.”

Judo is helpful for physical health and self-defense.

Not only that, Judo focus on respecting others, even its your opponent of tournament.

Does it sound interesting?

If you are interesting in joining MANNAM Judo Club, you can visit MANNAM judo club blog.

Below is the address of MANNAM Judo Club.

http://mannamjudo.blogspot.kr/

[MANNAM] The Korean Culture Of “Woo-ri”

Hi, MANNAM International friends! How long have you been living in Korea? During your stay in Korea, what is the most frequently heard Korean word? As for me, one of the most frequently heard words is “Woo-ri”. “Woo-ri” means we, our, us, ours or ourselves. Koreans use “Woo-ri” so often that you can hear it whenever and wherever. “Woo-ri Na-ra (our country)”, “Woo-ri Seon-su (our athletes)” “Woo-ri Mal (our language)”, “Woo-ri Gul (our alphabet)”, “Woo-ri Ssal (our rice)” and so on.

In fact, you can say “Korea” instead of “Woo-ri Na-ra” or use “Korean Athletes” rather than “Woo-ri Seon-su”. There is no difference in meaning. However, when you hear “Woo-ri Na-ra”, “Woo-ri Seon-su”, or “Woo-ri Mal”, you can feel the Korean people’s love, responsibility, and loyalty to their country and cohesiveness, unity, and oneness among Korean people.

As members of MANNAM International Volunteer Association, we all work together to embody the spirit of pure volunteerism and promote unity among the peoples and the cultures of the world. In a word, MANNAM International is doing a great work not only for us but for the world.

To do a great work as a group, all MANNAM International members should be cohesive, united, and work as one. That is the culture of “Woo-ri”. Also, to do a great work for the world, we need love, responsibility, and loyalty to the world. That is the spirit of “Woo-ri”. Above all, the reason why MANNAM International does a great work for the world is there is only one world and it belongs to everyone in the world. In Korean, we can say “Woo-ri Se-gye (our world)”.

MANNAM Have you ever look up the moon in the sky today?

MANNAM Have you looked up the moon in the sky?

Have you looked up the moon in the sky?

I’m not sure whether you looked it up or not, but it was full moon tonight,

 Today’s moon was a little more special than normal one

It was the first full-moon since lunar new year began.

You might think the shape of the moon is not so important, but this is Korean holiday.

It is called 대보름 (Dae-bo-reum, which literally means ‘Great Full Moon’.

It is the day that celebrates the first full moon of the new year of the Korean lunar calendar.                                

On this Dae-bo-reum, the Great Full Moon day, there are some traditional customs and cultural games.

As one of the traditions, people burn the dry grass on the rice fields. Children also whirl around the cans with holes, with fire in it. This action fertilizes the fields and gets rid of the harmful worms that destroy the new crops. It is called 쥐불놀이(Geuy-bul-no-ri).

To celebrate the full moon, people stand beside each other and make a big circle to dance together.

Most of all, the highlight of the Dae-bo-reum (full moon day), is Burning Dal-jip (달집).

Dal-jip is a heap of straw or twigs. Some of them are tall as 30m.

Around Dal-jip, people tie the paper one which their wishes are written.

On the first full moon day, people write their own wishes and burn heap of straw to ward off their misfortune and bring good luck.

They wish for good luck and no one wants misfortune or bad luck, because they don’t want to live a miserable life.

What is your wish? Living a healthy life? Or making a fortune?

Those wishes are also good, but how about making a small wish for people you don’t know yet?

Most of people make a wish for themselves, or for their beloved family.

However, not many people make a wish for others.

Tonight with the full moon, how about making a small wish for people who live in the opposite position of your country?

You don’t know them, but as we are living in the same global village, it would be nice to wish for someone you don’t know.

It might sound strange to you, but wouldn’t you feel good if someone is wishing a good luck for you, even those person who do not know you?

So, why don’t we make a small wish for the others, underneath the first full-moon?

MANNAM Soccer Team

All over the world, there are more than 180 countries that play soccer.

Among all different soccer teams, I want to introduce a very special team.

It is.... MANNAM soccer team!

Do you know about MANNAM Soccer Team??

What is so special about MANNAM soccer team?

If you have ever seen them playing, you will know what makes them so special.’

The thing is, MANNAM soccer players came from all over the world.

In the world, there are some place where war is going on; like USA and Afganistan.

They have to against each other to survive.

However, in MANNAM, they are united as one team and get together!

Isn’t it awesome? Every players make small PEACE within the team and the game.

Moreover, they don’t just play sport, but also they share each other’s culture.

Since they are from all around the world individuals have their own cultures.

Perhaps, some cultures can clash due to differences of each culture.

However, we, MANNAM soccer team respect each other and share cultures!

We even make unique PEACE and CULTURE in MANNAM!

Although we don’t speak same language, now we understand each other just by looking at other.

So! Are you interested in MANNAM Soccer Team?

Don’t you want to make PEACE playing soccer?? :)

We are always welcome you with to join us and make a small peace among us.