136 barbed wire crosses on display in Rome…靑 “Overcoming division and wishing for peace”

Melting old barbed wire to make a cross… President Moon visits the Santa Nhacio Cathedral exhibition

(Rome = Yonhap News) Reporter Hyeong-seop Lim and Gyeong-jun Park = President Moon Jae-in and his wife, who are visiting Italy to attend the G20 summit, held the ‘Barbed Wire, Peace Becomes’ held at the Basilica di Santa Nhacio in Rome on the afternoon of the 29th (local time). visited the exhibition.

At this exhibition, 136 ‘Peace Crosses’ made in the shape of a cross by melting the old barbed wire used in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) were exhibited.

Considering the fact that the two Koreas suffered division for 68 years after the armistice of the Korean War, 136 crosses, double the number of 68, were used.

The exhibition was attended by Minister Lee In-young of the Ministry of Unification, who organized the event, Dae-hoon Kwon, a professor of sculpture at Seoul National University, who created the work, and Yong-man Park, chairman of Walking Together Road, who is known to have come up with the idea for this exhibition (Chairman of Doosan Business Research Institute).

In particular, President Moon and his wife were handed candles from Korean and Italian copy children (children who help with mass) to light the last piece of art on display depicting the Korean Peninsula.

The Blue House explained, “Utilizing the scrap barbed wire that has fulfilled its mission, the desire for overcoming division and peace has been sublimated into a work of art.”

Meanwhile, the Blue House reported that the Santa Nhacio Cathedral is continuing its relationship with Korea by holding a concert on the theme of peace on the Korean Peninsula in 2019.