History of KACC

For over 100 years, Korean Americans have settled in Washington D.C, the capital of the United States of America. Unfortunately, despite the long history of settlements, no structures that represent Koreaโ€™s proud culture exist.

Washington D.C is not only the capital of the United States, but it is also the world center of politics and cultures. Creating a unique identity of Korea here plants the beauty of the Korean culture in the United States and preserves the Korean culture and history for future generations of Korean Americans so that they can be proud of their roots. Moreover, this is a chance for this generationโ€™s Korean Americans to share the beauty and wonders of our culture with mainstream American society with the purpose of establishing peace and harmony throughout communities.

‘์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ๋ฒจ ๊ฐ€๋“ ’ (์ผ๋ช…: ํ‰ํ™”์™€ ํ™”ํ•ฉ์˜ ์ข…) ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ ์ทจ์ง€

ํ•œ๋ฏผ์กฑ(Korean American)์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ด๋ฏผ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ 100๋…„์ด ๋„˜์—ˆ์Œ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋„์ธ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ†ค(Washington) ์ง€์—ญ์—๋Š” ํ•œ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ์šฐ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ์˜ ์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ์ด ์—†์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜์ˆ˜๋„์ด๋ฉฐ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ์ •์น˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ง€์ธ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ†ค์— ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ๊ณ ์œ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ํ•œ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ์‹ฌ์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ํ•œ๊ตญ์ธ๊ณผ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™”์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ๋„๋ฆฌ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ณด์กดํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ›„์„ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฐ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์ž„์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์•ผ ํ•  ์‹œ์ ์— ์™€์žˆ๋‹ค ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋”์šฑ์ด ์›Œ์‹ฑํ†ค์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ํ•œ์ธ(Korean American)๋“ค์€ ํƒ€ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํ•œ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™” ์šฐ์ˆ˜์„ฑ์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ํ™”ํ•ฉ์˜ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“  ์ทจ์ง€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

For the first time in history, one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in Washington, D.C, which is not only the capital of the United States but also the worldโ€™s political center, will hold the Korean Bell Garden. The Korean Bell Garden represents and shares the Korean culture and history, instilling identity and national pride in Korean American descendants living here in the United States. It is also a great cultural heritage that can be shared with other ethnic communities as an instrument of unity as well as symbol of exchanges and cooperation with all.

Also, 2010 marked the 60th anniversary of the unforgettable 6.25 Korean War that formed a friendship between Korea and United States. The completion of the Bell of Peace of Harmony celebrated and promoted everlasting peace and became a historical milestone to be commemorated always.

์‚ฌ์—…๋ชฉ์ 

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ˆ˜๋„์ด๋ฉฐ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ์ •์น˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ง€์ธ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ†ค์ง€์—ญ์— ๋ฏธ๋™๋ถ€์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์‹๋ฌผ๊ณต์›์— ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ •์›์กฐ์„ฑ (์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ๋ฒจ ๊ฐ€๋“ )์„ ์กฐ์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ, ํ•œ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ์‹ฌ์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ์ž์ž์†์† ํ›„์†๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ์ž๋ž‘์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ๊ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์‹ฌ์–ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋˜ํ•œ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ๋ฌธํ™” ์œ ์‚ฐ์„ ํƒ€๋ฏผ์กฑ๋“ค์— ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ชจ๋ฒ”์ด ๋˜์–ด ํƒ€๋ฏผ์กฑ ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€์˜ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ , ํ™”ํ•ฉ์˜ ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋˜ํ•œ 2010๋…„์—๋Š” ์žŠํ˜€์งˆ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” 6.25 ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „์Ÿ์˜ 60์ฃผ๋…„์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜๋Š” ๋œป ๊นŠ์€ ํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ๋ฏธ ์–‘๊ตญ๊ฐ„์˜ ์šฐ์˜์ฆ์ง„์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์œผ๋กœ ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์ข…๊ฐ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง์œผ๋กœ์จ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธธ์ด ๊ธฐ๋…๋  ์ด์ •ํ‘œ๊ฐ€ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

On the ninth day of June two thousand and seven, the undersigned gathered to recognize an agreement between the Korean American Cultural Committee (KACC) and the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority (NVRPA) to develop the first Korean Bell Garden in a public garden in the United States of America.

This Korean Bell Garden is a key feature of Meadowlark Botanical Gardens and provides a place of beauty and reflection for the public to enjoy.

In Korea, bell pavilions are used to mark places of great significance. This bell pavilion and surrounding garden marks Meadowlark Botanical Gardens as one of the premier public gardens in the United States and provides a place of cultural identity for over 200,000 Korean Americans living in Northern Virginia.

We, the undersigned, bore witness to the new partnership and the significant contribution it represented.

Located in the outskirts of Washington D.C., the center of Virginia is Fairfax County with a Korean population over 70%. The Korean Bell Garden is located at Meadowlark Botanical Garden (9750 Meadowlark Gardens Ct., Vienna, VA 22182), the only park in the Washington D.C Metropolitan Area with an entrance fee.

In July 2006, the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authorities for the Korean Bell Garden awarded a site for the Korean Bell Garden to be built. On April 18, 2007, KACC (Chairperson Jeung Hwa Elmejjad-Yi) and NVRPA (Chairman Bill Dickinson) signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the site that would become the Korean Bell Garden.
For this occasion, the Korean media as well as the American media, most notably the โ€œWashington Postโ€ was present to share this news with mainstream American society and to document the memorable event.
Professor David Chung of Michigan University, who was responsible for the design concept of the Korean Bell Garden, was also present and revealed the design to the public.

On November 11, 2007, a public viewing of the concept design was held and in the following year, on November 29, 2008, the concept landscape of the Meadowlark Gardens with the Korean Bell Garden was revealed. On this day, KACC was able to achieve the second fundraising goal through the donations made by the Koreans in the Washington D.C Metropolitan Area who donated approximately.250,000 stocks($150,000)Through theNOVA(Northern Virginia Regional Park Authorities) generous donation of 4.5 acres that is the site of the Korean Bell Garden today, the KACC was able to build a traditional bell pavilion with the hopes of accomplishing these goals: to share our culture with America, be recognized as Korean-Americans, and inspire the 1.5~2nd generations to feel ownership of the Korean culture. In addition, through this historical work, the KACC hoped to share our Korean culture with Americans and to create and build a foundation of unity between all the nationalities represented in the U.S. If everyone were to come together as one mind and heart, it would symbolize not only the joint immigration history in the U.S. but also the great American symbol of multiracial harmony.
Upon completion, the KACC representing the Korean American community, agreed to donate the Korean Bell Garden to park authorities, who would then be responsible for maintenance and management.

Finally, the Korean Bell Garden lies on a total of 4.5 acres of land, of which 1.6 acres holds the representative Bell of Peace and Harmony in the bell belfry that shows the theme of longevity, which can be seen throughout the garden. In order to preserve the characteristics of a traditional Korean garden, traditional Korean lamps can be seen upon entering the garden through the front gates. Pass the entryway, theJejuHarubang(volcanicRock)can be seen, as well as the Harmony Hall, the Flower Wall, the Wall of the Ten Symbols of Longevity, and the beautiful Turtle Fountain. Then, pass the stone walkway stands the grand Bell of Peace and Harmony, the centerpiece and pride of the Korean Bell Garden. Throughout the entire Korean Bell Garden, traditional Korean plants, such as the Korean national flower, the Rose of Sharon, and pine trees, are planted to enliven the entire garden and to add authenticity of a Korean traditional park to the garden. Also added are stone benches to rest on after walks along the garden.

์‚ฌ์—…์„ค๋ช…
๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ(County)๋Š” ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ๊ทผ๊ต์— ์žˆ๋Š” ํŽ˜์–ดํŒฉ์Šค ์นด์šดํ‹ฐ(Fairfax County)์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ด ์ง€์—ญ์—๋Š” ์›Œ์‹ฑํ†ค์ง€์—ญ ํ•œ์ธ๋“ค์˜ 70% ์ด์ƒ์ด ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  โ€˜์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“ โ€™ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ ๋ถ€์ง€์ธ โ€˜๋ฉ”๋„์šฐ๋ฝ ์‹๋ฌผ๊ณต์›โ€์€ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ†ค ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ ์œ ์ผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž…์žฅ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด [Meadowlark Botanical Garden Park] ๊ณต์›์ด๋ฉฐ ๋น„์—”๋‚˜ (9750 Meadowlark Gardens Ct., Vienna, VA 22182)์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KACC๋Š” 2006๋…„ 7์›” ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„์ฃผ ๊ณต์›๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋‹น๊ตญ(NVRPA/Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority)์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ๋ฒจ ๊ฐ€๋“  ๋ถ€์ง€๋ฅผ ์„ ์ • ๋ฐ›์•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋“ฌํ•ด์ธ 2007๋…„ 4์›”18์ผ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  ๋ถ€์ง€์—์„œ KACC(์œ„์›์žฅ ์ด์ •ํ™”)์™€ NVRPA(ํšŒ์žฅ ๋นŒ ๋””ํ‚จ์Šจ)๊ฐ€ โ€˜์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์Šน์ธ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๊ธฐ๋…์‹โ€™์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€˜์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์Šน์ธ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๊ธฐ๋…์‹โ€™์—๋Š” ์ฃผ์š” ํ•œ์ธ ์–ธ๋ก ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌผ๋ก ์ด๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ์–ธ๋ก ์ธ โ€˜์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ดํฌ์ŠคํŠธโ€™ ๋“ฑ๋„ ์ทจ์žฌ์˜ ์—ด์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜์‚ฌํšŒ์— ๋ณด๋„ํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
โ€˜์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์Šน์ธ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๊ธฐ๋…์‹โ€™์—๋Š” ์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ ๋””์ž์ธ์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•œ ๋ฐ์ด๋น— ์ •(๋ฏธ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€ ๊ต์ˆ˜)์”จ๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ์„ํ•ด ์ข…๊ณผ ์ข…๊ฐ ๋“ฑ ๊ณต์›์กฐ์„ฑ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋””์ž์ธ ์ปจ์…‰์„ ์ฐธ์„์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

2007๋…„ 11์›” 11์ผ์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฐ๋„ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ๊ด€๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๊ณ  ์ด๋“ฌํ•ด 2008๋…„ 11์›”29์ผ์— ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  ๋ถ€์ง€์ธ ๋ฉ”๋„์šฐ๋ฝ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์—์„œ ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋„ ๊ด€๋žŒ์‹์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์ผ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ์ต๋ช…์˜ ํ•œ์ธ ์‚ฌ์—…๊ฐ€๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฃผ์‹25๋งŒ์ฃผ/$150,000์ƒ๋‹น์˜ ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ์„ ์ „๋‹ฌ ๋ฐ›์Œ์œผ๋กœ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ๋ชจ๊ธˆ ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ 2์ฐจ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์•ก์„ ๋‹ฌ์„ฑํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

KACC๊ฐ€ ๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ๊ณต์›๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๊ธฐ์ฆ๋ฐ›์€ ๋ถ€์ง€ 4.5์—์ด์ปค ์ž๋ฆฌ์— ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ์ข…๊ฐ์„ ์„ธ์›Œ โ€˜์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ๋ฒจ ๊ฐ€๋“ โ€™์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์„ฑํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์†์— ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ์•„๋ฉ”๋ฆฌ์นธ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ์ธ์ •๋ฐ›์•„ ๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๋™์‹œ์— 1.5~2์„ธ๋“ค ์—ญ์‹œ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฃผ์ธ์˜์‹์„ ๊ณ ์ทจ์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋•…์—์„œ โ€˜๋ฌดโ€™์—์„œ โ€˜์œ โ€™๋ฅผ ์ฐฝ์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ์‚ฌ์—…์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ์„์„ ์Œ“๋Š” ์ผ์ด๊ธฐ์— ๊ตญ.๋‚ด์™ธ ๋™ํฌ๋“ค ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋˜์–ด ๋™์ฐธํ•œ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•๋ฌผ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ์œ„๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด๋ฏผ์—ญ์‚ฌ์˜ ๊ฒฐ์‹ค์ผ ๋ฟ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ํ™”ํ•ฉ๊ณผ ์ƒ์ง•์˜ ํ‘œ๋ณธ์ด ๋˜๋ฆฌ๋ผ ์‚ฌ๋ฃŒ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ์ธ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ์ถ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ KACC๊ฐ€ ์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์„ ์™„๋ฃŒํ•œ ํ›„ ์กฐํ˜•๋ฌผ์„ ๊ณต์›๋‹น๊ตญ์— ๊ธฐ์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ํ˜•์‹์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๋ฉฐ๊ณต์›๋‹น๊ตญ์ด ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ์„ ์ •๋ถ€์ฐจ์›์—์„œ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋์œผ๋กœ โ€˜์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“ โ€™์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ง์”€๋“œ๋ฆฌ์ž๋ฉด, ์ด 4.5์—์ด์ปค ๋ถ€์ง€์— ์ž”๋””๋ฅผ ๊น”๊ณ , ๊ทธ์ค‘ 1.6์—์ด์ปค์—๋Š” ์‹ญ์žฅ์ƒ์„ ํ…Œ๋งˆ๋กœ ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ข…๊ฐ์„ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข…๊ฐ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•œ๊ตญ์ „ํ†ต์ •์› ์ปจ์…‰์˜ ํŠน์„ฑ์„ ์‚ด๋ ค์„œ ์ „ํ†ต๊ธฐ์™€ ๋‹ด์žฅ๊ณผ ์ „ํ†ต๋Œ€๋ฌธ (๋ฌด๊ถํ™” ๋ฌธ) ์ž…๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘์œผ๋กœ, ํ† ์ข…ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹๋ฌผ๋กœ ๊พธ๋ฉฐ์ ธ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ์ •์ทจ๋ฅผ ๋Š๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œํ•˜๋ฅด๋ฐฉ, ์žฅ์Šน๋“ฑ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ค‘์•™๋งˆ๋‹น์— ๋“ค์–ด์„œ๋ฉด ์ค‘์•™๋งˆ๋‹น์˜ ์ž…๊ตฌ์—๋Š” ์‹ ๋ผ์˜ ์„ํƒ‘์„ ๋ณด๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋ฉฐ Harmony Hall(์กฐํ™”๋ฃจ)๊ณผ ๊ฝƒ๋‹ด, ์‹ญ์žฅ์ƒ๋‹ด๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋ชป๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฑฐ์ณ์„œ,๊ฑด๋„ˆ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“ ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ธ ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์ข…๊ฐ์œผ๋กœ ๋„์ฐฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ฃผ์œ„๋กœ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ตญํ™”์ธ ๋ฌด๊ถํ™”๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•˜์—ฌ ์†Œ๋‚˜๋ฌด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ•œ๊ตญํ† ์ข… ๋‚˜๋ฌด, ์‹๋ฌผ, ๋Œ๋“ฑ์ด ์กฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด๋ฃจ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๊ณ , ํŠนํžˆ ํ•œ๊ธ€๊ณต์›์„ ์œ„์‹œํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ๊ณต์›๋“ฑ์ด ์กฐ์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์™ธ์— ๊ณต์›์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ์‚ฐ์ฑ…ํ•œ ํ›„ ์‰ด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒค์น˜๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ๋ จ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Duration: 2007โ€”2012
Location: Meadowlark Botanical Gardens (9750 Meadowlark Gardens Court, Vienna, VA 22182)
Size: 4.5 Acres

๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐ ์žฅ์†Œ

๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 2007๋…„โ€”2012๋…„
์žฅ์†Œ: ๋ฉ”๋„๋ฝ ์‹๋ฌผ๊ณต์› (Meadowlark Botanical Garden) 9750 Meadowlark Gardens Court, Vienna, VA 22182
๊ฑด๋ฆฝ๋ถ€์ง€/๊ทœ๋ชจ: 4.5์—์ด์ปค

Notes & Special Notes

2010 (First Construction) $450,000
: Bell Tower construction: $350,000 / Bell of Peace and Harmony: $100,000
2011 (Second Construction) $550,000
: Construction of the rest of the garden (Main Gate, Flower Wall, Harmony Hall, Turtle Fountain, Hangul Park, etc.)
Management Funds: $200,000
: Permanent Endowment Fund for the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority to continue to manage the Korean Bell Garden

์ฐธ๊ณ ๋ฐํŠน๊ธฐ์‚ฌํ•ญ

2010๋…„ (1์ฐจ๊ณต์‚ฌ) $450,000
์ข…๊ฐ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ๋น„์šฉ: $350,000 / ํ‰ํ™”์˜์ข…๋น„์šฉ: $100,000
2011๋…„ (2์ฐจ๊ณต์‚ฌ)$550,000
์ฃผ๋ณ€์ •์›๋ฐ๋ฌด๊ถํ™”๋ฌธ, ๊ฝƒ๋‹ด, ํ•˜๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ™€, ๊ฑฐ๋ถ์„ , ํ•œ๊ธ€๊ณต์›๋“ฑ์กฐ์„ฑ๋น„์šฉ
์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“ ์˜๊ตฌ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ์•ฝ์ •๊ธˆ(์˜๊ตฌ์ ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„๊ณต์›๋‹น๊ตญ์—์„œ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ• ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ): $200,000

Project Timeline / ์‚ฌ์—… ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ

July 26, 2006: the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authorities for the Korean Bell Gardenย awarded a site(4.5 acres) for the Korean Bell Garden to be built.ย ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ๊ณต์›๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ถ€์ง€(4.5 ์—์ด์ปค)์ œ๊ณต๋ฐ›์Œ

April 18, 2007: KACC (Chairperson Jeung Hwa Elmejjad-Yi) and NVRPA (Chairman Bill Dickinson)signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the site that would become the Korean Bell Garden.ย ํ•œ๋ฏธ๋ฌธํ™”์žฌ๋‹จ(KACC)๊ณผ ๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„๊ณต์›๊ตญ(NVRPA)์€ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์Šน์ธ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ์‹์„ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋ฏธ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ์ผ๊ฐ„์ง€ Washington Post์—์„œ๋„ ์‹ฌ๋„์žˆ๋Š” ํฐ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ๋กœ ๋ณด๋„ํ•˜์˜€์Œ

November 10, 2007: KACC and NVRPA meeting regarding design plans; Approval of conceptย designs and plans.ย ๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„๊ณต์›๋‹น๊ตญ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž์™€ ํ”Œ๋žœ/๋””์ž์ธ ๋ฏธํŒ…์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์ตœ์ข…์Šน์ธย ๋ฐ›์•˜์Œ

2008:Land Survey completed

November 29, 2008: Raised 250,000stocks($150,000) through anonymous donations &ย Receivedtotal promissory notes of $450,000 through individual, corporation,Virginiastateโ€™s.ย ๋ชจ๊ธฐ์—…์ฒด (์ต๋ช…๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ž)๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฃผ์‹ 250,000์ฃผ($150,000์ƒ๋‹น)์„ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€๋ฐ›์•„๊ฐ ๊ฐœ์ธ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์—…์ฒด์˜ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ์•ก๊ณผ ์•ฝ์ •๊ธˆ, Virginia ์ฃผ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์•ฝ์ •๊ธˆ์„ ํฌํ•จ 2009๋…„ 8์›” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ด $450,000 ์ •๋„๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ๋œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ž„

April 2009: Promoted Seok Hyung Kwon as the manager & completed Bell Pavilionย Designedby Sampoong Architecture.ย ํ•œ๊ตญ์˜ ํ˜„์žฅ์†Œ์žฅ ๊ถŒ์„ํ˜•์”จ(LA ์šฐ์ •์˜ ์ข…๊ฐ ์‹ ์ถ•ํ˜„์žฅ ์†Œ์žฅ)๋ฅผ ์„ ์ •ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ˜„์žฌ ํ•œ๊ตญ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ผํ’๊ฑด์„ค์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์ข…๊ฐ์„ ์„ค๊ณ„ํ–ˆ์Œ.

2009: Received approval from Fairfax County of construction plan.ย Fairfax County์˜ ๊ฑด์ถ•ํ—ˆ๊ฐ€ ์Šน์ธํš๋“.

2009: To receive support and cooperation of the Republic of Korea, membersย traveled toSouth Korea in April, July, and September; received promise of support.ย ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ์˜ ํ˜‘์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด 4์›”, 7์›”, 10์›” ํ•œ๊ตญ ์„ธ์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํ˜‘์กฐ์•ฝ์†๋ฐ›์Œ.

September 2009: Visit Korea with the NVRPA Team (Paul Gilbert, Sue Webb, etc.) to studyย Korean history and traditional Korean gardens.ย ๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„๊ณต์›๋‹น๊ตญ์˜ Paul Gilbert, Sue Webb, ๋“ฑ๊ณผํ•จ๊ป˜ Korean Bellย Garden์˜ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‹๋ฌผ์ •์› ๋“ฑ์„ ๊ฒฌํ•™

February 2010: Received Fairfax Countyโ€™s building permit approval.ย Fairfax County๋กœ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  ๊ฑด์ถ• ์Šน์ธ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์Œ.

April 03,2010: Planting event & awarding of W100,000,000($87,741)donation by Koreanย government(With the cooperation of NVRPA, native Korean plants were planted).ย ์‹๋ชฉํ–‰์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ํ•œ๊ตญ์ •๋ถ€ 1์–ต์› ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ์ „๋‹ฌ์‹(๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ๊ณต์›๋‹น๊ตญ์˜ ํ˜‘๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ์ •์›์ฃผ๋ณ€์— ๋‚˜๋ฌด์‹ฌ๊ธฐ(์€ํ–‰, ๋ฌด๊ถํ™”, ๋ฒš๊ฝƒ๋“ฑ)

June 13, 2010: Professor Young Sun Jung & Director Woo Gun Jung began landscape design. ์ •์˜์„  ๊ต์ˆ˜์™€ ์ •์šฐ๊ฑด ์†Œ์žฅ (์„œ์•ˆ์กฐ๊ฒฝ) ํ˜„์ง€๋‹ต์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ์กฐ๊ฒฝ์„ค๊ณ„ ์‹œ์ž‘.

June 27, 2010: Groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Bell of Peace andย Harmony (Marked the 60th anniversary of the 6.25 Korean War & with the Korean War Veterans, held a Korean War Photo Exhibition).ย ์ข…๊ฐ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ ๊ธฐ๊ณต์‹ ๋ฐ 60์ฃผ๋…„ 6.25 ์ „์Ÿ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ „์‹œํšŒ

July 13, 2010: Master carpenter Kwang Bog Lee, carpenter Jae Bog Lee, and Dong Heeย Kim arrived from Korea and began construction.ย ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋Œ€๋ชฉ๋ช…์žฅ,๋„ํŽธ์ˆ˜์ด๊ด‘๋ณต, ๋Œ€๋ชฉ์ด์žฌ๋ณต, ๋Œ€๋ชฉ๊น€๋™ํฌ ๋„์ฐฉ, ํ˜„์ง€์ธย ์กฐ์‚ฌ๊ฐ‘๋Œ€๋ชฉ๊ณผ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ๊ณต์‚ฌ ์‹œ์ž‘

August 16,2010: Assistant artisan Jae Hyuk Lee arrived from Korea.ย ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ถ€๋„ํŽธ์ˆ˜ ์ด์žฌํ˜ ๋„์ฐฉ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜

September 05, 2010: The belfryโ€™s near-complete celebration called โ€œsangryangsikโ€ held.ย ์ข…๊ฐ ์ƒ๋Ÿ‰์‹

September 24, 2010: Keun Bok Lee &Hak Young Kim arrived from Korea and began work toย complete roof.ย ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์™€๋ช…์žฅ,๋ฒˆ์™€์žฅ์ด๊ทผ๋ณต, ์™€์žฅ๊น€ํ•™์˜ ๋„์ฐฉ ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ž‘์—… ์‹œ์ž‘

October 03, 2010: 1st stage of bell belfry construction completed.ย 1์ฐจ ์‚ฌ์—… ์ข…๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ ์™„๊ณต

2010: Visited Korea 3 times to receive support and cooperation fromthe Korean Government.ย ํ•œ๊ตญ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ํ˜‘์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ 3์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ

February 23, 2011: Gyeonggi Province donates $100,000 for the Bell of Peace and Harmony.ย ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ๊ธฐ๋„์—์„œ โ€œํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์ข… ์ œ์ž‘๋น„ $100,000โ€ ๊ธฐ์ฆ

April 07, 2011: Began the 2nd stage construction of the Korean Bell Gardenโ€”Landscapeย Gardening.ย ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  2์ฐจ๊ณต์‚ฌ ์‹œ์ž‘

May 04, 2011: Construction of the Bell of Peace and Harmony began.ย ํ•œ๊ตญ์„ฑ์ข…์‚ฌ ์ œ์ž‘์˜ ์™„์„ฑ๋œ โ€œํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์ข…โ€ ์ข…๊ฐ์— ๋‹ฌ์•„ ์ข…๊ฐ ์™„์„ฑ

May 14, 2011: 1st Bell Dedication held at the Korean Bell Garden.ย ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  1์ฐจ ์™„๊ณต์‹, ํ‰ํ™”์˜ ์ข…๊ณผ ์ข…๊ฐ ์™„๊ณต์‹:๋งŽ์€ ์ฃผ๋ฅ˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“ค๊ณผ ํƒ€๋ฏผ์กฑ๋“ฑ 500์—ฌ๋ช…์ด ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ ํƒ€์ข…์‹๊ณผ ์žฅ์Šน์กฐ๊ฐ ๋ช…์žฅ ๊น€์ข…ํฅ์”จ์˜ ์žฅ์Šน๊นŽ๊ธฐ ํผํฌ๋จผ์Šค, ์š”๋ฆฌ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฅ์žฌ์˜ฅ ์„ ์ƒ์˜ ํ•œ์‹์š”๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฆ๊ฒผ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํ•œ์ง€ ํšŒํ™”์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์ง„์‹์”จ์˜ ํ•œ์ง€ํšŒํ™”์ „, ์‹ ๋ผ์™•์กฑ ๋ณต์žฅ์ž…๊ณ  ์ข…์น˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์ง„์ฐ๊ธฐ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์กŒ์Œ.

2011: Visited Korea 3 times regarding information and building constructionforย Korean BellGarden.ย 2์ฐจ ๊ณต์‚ฌ ํ˜‘์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ตญ 3์ฐจ๋ก€ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ

March, 2012: Last finishing touches and construction in preparation for the Grandย OpeningCeremony (Harmony Hall, main gate, Flower Wall, etc.)๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์™„๊ณต์‹์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์‚ฌ (ํ•œ๊ธ€๊ณต์›, ๊ฝƒ๋‹ด์„ค์น˜ ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ), ๋„ํŽธ์ˆ˜์ด๊ด‘๋ณต, ๋ช…์žฅ,๋ฏธํ™”์žฅ๊น€์ง„์˜ฅ ์ผํ–‰ ๋„์ฐฉ

March, 2012: Trip to Korea regarding preparation for the Korean Bell Garden Grandย OpeningCeremony.ย ์™„๊ณต์‹์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ

May 19, 2012: Korean Bell Garden Grand Opening Ceremony held & the Korean Bellย Gardendonated to the NVRPA.ย ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  ์™„๊ณต์‹๋ฐ ๋ถ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‹ˆ์•„ ๊ณต์›๋‹น๊ตญ์—๊ฒŒ ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ๋ฒจ๊ฐ€๋“  ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ•จ

April 2015: 1์ฐจ ์˜๊ตฌ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ž‘์—… ์™„๋ฃŒ

November 2017: 2์ฐจ ์˜๊ตฌ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ž‘์—… ์™„๋ฃŒ

October-November 2021: 3์ฐจ ์˜๊ตฌ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ž‘์—…์™„๋ฃŒ ๋ฐ ์ƒˆ ์žฅ์Šน์ œ์ž‘ ๊ต์ฒด์™„๋ฃŒ

Ms. Jeung Hwa Elmejjad-Yi, Chair of KACC, held a fundraising concert in spring 2005 and famous country singers well-known in the music industry Su Hee Kim and Mi Ja Lee were invited to perform. Also that spring, KACC collaborated with writers (seniors) and held a โ€œLiterary Nightโ€ and โ€œOriental Painting Exhibitionโ€ as fundraising events.

In addition, in April and October 2004, the KACC held golf tournaments. On August 9, 2007, fundraising campaign was spread through live-broadcast on AM 1310. In October 2007, KACC held another gold tournament and in November, an event revealing a birdโ€™s-eye view of the planned landscape was held. In February 2008, a fundraising dinner was held at the Korean Embassy and in November, the map of the planned landscape was revealed to the public. On this particular day, for the first time in the Washington D.C Metropolitan Area, anonymous donors contributed $250,000.

KACC๋Š” ์ด์ •ํ™” ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ 2004๋…„๊ณผ2005๋…„ ๋ด„์— ๋ณธ๊ตญ ๋Œ€์ค‘ ๊ฐ€์š”๊ณ„์˜ ์œ ๋ช… ๊ฐ€์ˆ˜์ธ ๊น€์ˆ˜ํฌ์”จ์™€ ์ด๋ฏธ์ž์”จ๋ฅผ ์ดˆ์ฒญํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ฑด๋ฆฝ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•œ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋˜ํ•œ 2005๋…„ ๋ด„์—๋Š” ์›Œ์‹ฑํ†ค์ง€์—ญ ์›๋กœ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์ง€์›์œผ๋กœ ‘๋ฌธํ•™์˜ ๋ฐค’ ํ–‰์‚ฌ์™€ ์•„์šธ๋Ÿฌ ‘๋™์–‘ํ™” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์ „์‹œํšŒ’๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์–ด KACC๋Š” 2006๋…„ 4์›”๊ณผ 10์›”์— ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ๋ชจ๊ธˆ ๊ณจํ”„๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2007๋…„ 8์›”9์ผ์— ์‹ค์‹œํ•œ ๋ผ๋””์˜ค(AM1310) ์ƒ๋ฐฉ์†ก ๋ชจ๊ธˆ ์šด๋™, 10์›”์— ๊ณจํ”„๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ์„ ๋งˆ๋ จํ•˜์˜€๊ณ , 11์›”์—๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฐ๋„ ๊ณต๊ฐœ ๊ด€๋žŒ์„ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 2008๋…„ 2์›”์—๋Š” ์ฃผ๋ฏธํ•œ๊ตญ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๊ด€์ €์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ๋ชจ๊ธˆ ๋งŒ์ฐฌ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 11์›”์—๋Š” ์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•ˆ ๋ฒจ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ด ์„ธ์›Œ์งˆ ๋ฒ„์ง€๋‚˜์•„ ๋น„์—”๋‚˜์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ๋ฉ”๋„์šฐ๋ฝ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์—์„œ ์‹ค๋ฌผ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋„ ๊ด€๋žŒ์‹์ด ์—ด๋ ธ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋‚  ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ์ง€์—ญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์•ฝ25๋งŒ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์˜ ๋ชจ๊ธˆ์ด ์ต๋ช…์˜ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€์ž๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋“ค์–ด์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.