'40 Years of Visiting Special Forces Soldiers' Park Young-bong, Director of Cheongunjae'

40 Years of Community Service: Delivering Early Morning Newspapers and Scholarship Funding Projects

Park Young-bong, Director of Cheongun Foundation, encouraged the world’s elite special forces operators who were fully engaged in special operations training on the 31st of last month.

Director Park, a former member of the Special Forces, voluntarily enlisted in 1976 and played a key role in establishing the 11th Special Forces Brigade, serving as a special operations instructor for the Moroccan Army in Africa and as a parachute training instructor for the Special Forces. He was honorably discharged as a national merit recipient in 1980 due to a parachuting accident. Since then, as a citizen of the Republic of Korea, he began his second life by walking the path of social service.

Since 1983, Park Young-bong, director of Cheongunjae, who has been visiting ROK Armed Forces soldiers including special forces for 40 years this year, visited special forces soldiers training on the East Coast on the 31st, delivered fruits produced by farms in Gangneung City as consolation gifts, and took a commemorative photo. Photo by the provider

Visiting and Encouraging ROK Armed Forces Soldiers Including Special Forces, 40 Years Since 1983

The candlelight scholarship program, which Director Park started in 1989 by delivering newspapers at dawn, has reached its 35th year this year, with a total disbursement amounting to 320 million KRW. Additionally, social service activities such as disaster rescue operations, helping national merit recipients, environmental cleanup, child assistance campaigns, and aid for the underprivileged have also reached 40 years.

Director Park stated, "As a former Special Forces member, I will always prepare for national crises and, as a national merit recipient, I will continue to walk the path of social service for those in need until the day I dedicate my life."