The Youth Federation for World Peace Holds the Pure Love Seminar for Sexual Values Education of Youth.

Today, the discussion on the first steps that need to be taken for the sexual values of today’s youth in society garnered much interest. The Youth Federation for World Peace reflects on the meaning of pure love and the sexual values of youth as it celebrates both its own 20-year anniversary and the First Anniversary of Foundation Day.

On the afternoon of the 7^th, on the 19^th floor of the Korean Press Center, the Youth Federation for World Peace (President Kyung Deuk Yoo, a.k.a. Youth Federation) hosted 260 sexual education specialists, pure love educators and parents of students for the “Sexual Values Education for Youth, Current State of Affairs and Method for Vitalization”

Pure Love Seminar.

◆ The Corrupt View of Sex, Acute Culture Shift

In the opening address, Youth Federation President Kyung Deuk Yoo said, “The first question that young people pose to society is that of sex. “I want to express my will for young people to hold strong moral sexual values, and for these young people to fix the corrupt sexual culture of our society.” He also urged for young people to participate in pure love movements to change the views of society, saying, “The young people need to take a stand for protecting themselves and children from sexual violence.” He also said, “I feel that the purity movement we are holding for middle, high school and university students will become a meaningful basis for the solution we have been seeking in education. I hope that this seminar proposes a new solution that can become the cornerstone in the vitalization of sexual values and character education in schools.”

Na Young Moon, President of the Women’s Federation, said in her congratulatory message, “I want to applaud all those who have worked hard on the front line to establish moral sexual values in our young people through countrywide education for the last 15 years.”

Participants of the Pure Love Seminar examined the current state of sexual education for youth, and sought the method and direction for vitalization of pure love education. A scientific basis was prepared for the effective study and expansion of sexual values education.

◆ “We Need to Reform the Negative Image of Pure Love Education”

In the second part of the seminar, the keynote speech and debate were given by Korea National University of Education’s honored professor Ijong Kwon, discussing ‘Sexual Values Education, Current State of Affairs and Method for Vitalization.’

Professor Geon-Ryeong Yeom, researcher from the Korean National Police Academy, discussed the serious sexual problem in Korean society through the speech titled, “The Problem of Korean Sexual Delinquency and Educational Counterproposal.” He brought up the premise that as the best alternative for today’s society, moral sexual values are extremely important, and that the negative view of pure love education needs to be reformed.

Bog-Joon Kim, Korean Criminology Researcher, agreed that the sexual problem facing today’s youth is indeed extremely serious, and emphasized that there was no other alternative in solving the sexual problem of the youth than by educating the parents.

Jung Hyun Lee, Head of Education Development for the Korea Youth Pure Love Movement, in his speech titled, “A Proposal for the Change in Sexual Education in Schools to Focus on Students,” criticized the current cramming method of sexual education in schools and proposed a plan for sexual education in schools centered on the students.

Principal Gil Yeon Lee of SunJung Tourism High School, seconded Jung Hyun Lee’s proposal and introduced active prevention methods and educational guidance for sexual values education. He observed that there is a possibility for the shift in ‘sexual education focused on students,’ through carrying out debate classes and reading contests at SunJung High School.

Finally, Professor Jae Il Lee of the Pure True Love Department at Sun Moon University, gave a speech titled, ‘Research for Advisable Sexual Education,’ about his opinion on the moral sexual education required by today’s young people. His proposal included: sexual education focused on values, sexual education focused on abstinence and self-control, sexual education based upon the connection between sex, love and marriage, sexual education that uses appropriate content and methods for the different sexual development stages and appetites of young people, sexual education that focuses on a close relationship between the educators and students, and the cooperation between families, society and schools regarding sexual education.

Professor Sun Ae Moon of the Pure True Love Department at Sun Moon University, disclosed that in order for a couple to experience the greatest happiness, they must maintain purity before marriage and fidelity within marriage to each other.