▲ Pastor Choi Il-do of Dail Community

Dail Community is one of the leading NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) in Korea. It held the 4th Bab Peacemaker at Odusan Unification Tower on August 8 to wish a reconciliation and peace in the Korean Peninsula on the occasion of the recent thawing mood between the North and the South.

300 people big or small attended the event including Park Jong-sam (World Vision chairman), Park Jong-geun (We Together Foundation president), Yu Chang-jun (Handong Global University professor), Kim Sang-min (former lawmaker) and Shin Jong-ho (Korea Disability Arts & Culture Center president). Bab Peacemaker was first organized by 7 co-leaders and 70 executive committee members in 2015 to promote peace in the Korean Peninsula.

Pastor Choi said "Whether it is North or South, the home of our souls start from a dining table our mothers prepared for us with love" and it touched the many hearts of the people. Choi and the co-representatives and planning committee members announced a declaration on the day that contains 10 suggestions for reconciliation and peaceful unification which must be sought in one mind regardless parties, conservatives or progressive alike. 

Former Deputy Prime Minister Han Wan-sang alongside Park Jong-sam took the advisor's role while head pastors of Yoido Full Gospel Church and Suwon Central Baptist Church, president of the International Green Tree Foundation, president of P.P.L Foundation, president of We Together Foundation, chancellor of Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary and chancellor of Handong Global University took the honorary president's role. 

Dail Community is engaged in charity activities in 10 countries at the moment covering free meals, education, medical services and modernization. The foundation was first formed in 1988 at Cheongnyangni Station, Seoul by giving out free rice and it turned into the current Dail Community in 1998. Average 800 to 1,000 people in need are still being served free meals daily today. 

Dail Community launched Dail Angel Hospital in 2002 to provide free medical services to underprivileged people and foreigners and in 2011 established Dail Little Heaven for elderly people to rest and recover. 

10 countries including Cambodia, China, Nepal, Uganda, the Philippines, Tanzania, Vietnam, the US and Canada also are being benefited from the activities of Dail Community through free meals, medicines, education, schools, music performance, crafts and language training, rice and blanket and tents.