Actor Jung Woo-sung receives the Nogunri Peace Prize for Human Rights.
Jung Woo-sung, who is a Goodwill Ambassador to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), will receive an award at the 12th Nogun-ri Peace Prize ceremony at the Auditorium of the Nogun-ri Peace Park Education Center in Hwanggan-myeon, Chungbuk English, on the 18th.
“We appreciated the fact that Jung Woo-sung has contributed to the spread of consensus on refugee issues for five years since he was appointed as an honorary ambassador for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2014,” said the committee.
Since 2008, the Nogunri International Peace Foundation has selected individuals or organizations that have contributed to the development of world peace and human rights, and has given Peace Prize to honor the Chungbuk English Army Nogunri incident, which was massacred by refugees during the Korean War.