Second episode airs live Wednesday at 2 p.m. via YouTube
First episode featured self-employed worker and part-time laborer
Cheong Wa Dae announced Wednesday that it will livestream the second episode of "National Unity: We Need to Talk," a program bringing together people in their 80s and 20s to share their life experiences, at 2 p.m.
The episode will air on the KTV YouTube channel and feature Kim Myung-ja, a former environment minister and ex-chairwoman of KAIST, as the representative elder, and Lee Mu-geun, currently serving as a youth adviser at the Ministry of Science and ICT, as the representative young voice.
Kim Young-im, an official from the presidential office's population policy secretariat — which handles generational conflict issues — will moderate the conversation, guiding the two guests through an exchange of views on major social issues including AI.
Participants are expected to approach intergenerational conflict not as a matter of right and wrong, but as an opportunity to understand each other's experiences and circumstances and work together toward solutions.
Cheong Wa Dae conceived the program to create a space for dialogue where people with differing perspectives can come to understand one another's point of view.
The first episode, which aired in August, featured broadcaster Hong Seok-cheon and part-time worker Park Hyun-woo and explored the tensions between self-employed business owners and laborers.
"It may be difficult to eliminate all conflict in our society overnight, but we must not become a society that turns its back on others without even listening to their stories," Cheong Wa Dae said. "Understanding each other's experiences through dialogue and finding common ground even amid our differences — that is where national unity begins."
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