The City of Busan (pronounced ['pu'san]) in South Korea proclaimed February 15, 2009 as “Brain Education Day” in honor of the contribution that Brain Education has made, and has the potential to make, to its schools and human resource development. Ilchi Lee, president of BR Consulting, Sedona, AZ, is the creator of Brain Education.
It commemorated the day with a one-hour ceremony attended by over 150 people, including Brain Education instructors and distinguished guests. The ceremony featured congratulatory remarks from Busan’s Mayor Namshik Heo and an address by Ilchi Lee. In his remarks, Lee described Brain Education as an “educational product and form of spiritual culture.”
The Busan Brain Education Day proclamation stated:
“As we welcome the 21st century’s ‘Age of the Knowledge Industry,’ we see that interest in human resource development and Brain Education is growing. As a consequence, excellent human resources developed through Brain Education are becoming a source of national and regional competition in a global era.
In keeping with this historical current, Ilchi Lee, who is an honorary citizen of our city and president of the International Brain Education Association, modernized the traditional mind-body training system of our people, Dahnhak, to create Brain Education programs. These programs are popular in nations around the world, and New York City has declared February 8, 2009 to be ‘IBREA Brain Education Day.’
Accordingly, in order to make known the importance of Brain Education to the general public, as well as to schools in our Busan, which is on its way to becoming one of the world’s finest cities, and timed to coincide with the national program of Special Workshops in Brain Education being held in Busan, I hereby proclaim February 15, 2009 to be Busan Brain Education Day, the first such day in our country.”
This proclamation comes after a year of the City of Busan steadily incorporating Brain Education into its school system. Although it was already in some pilot schools, Brain Education was first embraced by the Department of Education in March 2008, after Ilchi Lee gave a lecture there for educators and administrators and met personally with Busan Superintendent of Educational Affairs, Dong-geun Seol.
Lee also donated 450 Brain Wave Vibration books that were distributed to each school in the city. After this event, the Department of Brain Education started holding Brain Education classes in the morning and formed a task force to determine how to incorporate Brain Education methods into Busan’s schools.
The City of Busan is a major metropolitan area and the largest port city in South Korea. It has a population of 3.65 million and is South Korea's second largest metropolis, after the capital, Seoul. The city is located on the Southeastern most tip of the Korean Peninsula and faces the Korea Strait.