{"id":306762,"date":"2019-01-30T22:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/korea-the-sung-sim-dang-bakerys-special-guest\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T18:38:53","slug":"korea-the-sung-sim-dang-bakerys-special-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/korea-the-sung-sim-dang-bakerys-special-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Korea: The Sung Sim Dang bakery\u2019s special guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On January 24 Korean President Moon Jae-in visited the Sum Sim Dang bakery, which is part of the Focolare\u2019s Economy of Communion project.<\/em>  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-184578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Korea-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><strong><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-184442 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/190124_Compleanno_MoonJaein_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"227\"><\/strong>For a business owner, it goes without saying that having the president of the republic visit your business is an exceptional event. But if that visit happens on the president\u2019s birthday, it\u2019s even more so! That\u2019s exactly what happened in Daejeon to Amata Kim and Fedes Im, two Korean entrepreneurs who are part of the Economy of Communion and run the well-known bakery Sung Sim Dang.  <strong>Moon Jae-in<\/strong>, who has been South Korea\u2019s president since May 2017, is known in the West for starting the peace process with North Korea after almost 70 years of cold war. He celebrated his birthday at Sung Sim Dang with a magnificent cake and was able to get to know the business\u2019s history and reality up close. His Instagram post got more than 76,000 likes in just a few hours.  \u201cI was pleasantly surprised today to celebrate my birthday at the Sung Sim Dang bakery in Daejeon,\u201d he said. \u201cDuring the war in 1950 my father and the bakery\u2019s founder (Fedes\u2019 father) were on the same evacuation ship, Victoria, fleeing North Korea. Remembering this moment of history is for us is something we hold dear and precious. My birthday is a day like any other, but today I am recharged with new strength from the well wishes of so many. Thank you!\u201d  The event resonated widely in the media, partly because Sung Sim Dang is universally recognized and highly valued throughout the city of Daejeon.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DHPo1PNE2Mw&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;fbclid=IwAR1dH9wTuz0CBB0Lpjwndt62xrod3Q3J3wYxePIY0SYApzipUaoIKaMn7Cs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> to see video highlights from the visit. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Antonella Ferrucci<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Source: &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/edc-online.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> www.edc-online.org<\/a>  <img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-184579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Korea-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184601 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Korea4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-184612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Korea5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 24 Korean President Moon Jae-in visited the Sum Sim Dang bakery, which is part of the Focolare\u2019s Economy of Communion project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}