World Madam International Culture Week, hosted by World Madam Foundation and jointly presented by World Madam Group, took place from December 10th to 15th locally in New York. UN ambassadors, elites from all walks of life and candidates from all regions attended the event ceremoniously in batches.

On December 12, Dr. Djibril Diallo, the former United Nations General Assembly Press Secretary served as World Madam 2024 chairman of the annual review committee; Daniel del Valle Blanco, Chairperson of the Youth Advisory Committee of UN-Habitat, led World Madam Global Authentication Officer representatives and the former World Madam Global Winner representatives formed the 13-member jury. After reviewing of videos and live speeches, talents, Chan Laifong from Macao and Liora Michelle Green from America tied for first place as World Madam 2024 Global Overall Champion. At the same time, nominated by the Chair of judges, ? was awarded the honor of World Madam 2024 Global Honorary Champion; and Shayana Rex from Canada won the title of World Miss 2024 Overall Champion, Helena Hou from New Zealand claimed the victory of World Junior 2024 Overall Champion. More than 20 candidates from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, Guyana, Bolivia, EI Salvador and other countries and regions, as well as their families and friends added color to the culture week activity.

The award ceremony was held in Oheka Castle, the largest private castle in New York. The attendees were over 200, including: Anni Huang, founder of World Madam Foundation and World Madam Global Brand, Lisa Chen, Global Authentication officer, Cici Zhang, Europe Authentication officer, Fei Fang, U.S. Authentication Officer, Adem Erol, Turkey Chief Executive, Xuefen Mo, New Zealand Chief Executive, Alice Liao, Canada Chief Executive, Lily Yan, Northern California Chief Executive, Alan Yang, Director of World Madam Group, Zaozao Wang, 2021 World Madam Global Audience Choice Champion, Lili Han, 2022 World Madam Global Overall Champion, Sepideh Behboudi, 2023 World Madam Global Overall Champion, World Madam regional organizing committee representatives and people from fields of art, education, finance, diplomacy, media, etc..

At the award ceremony, World Madam Global Organizing Committee presented Star Organizing Committee Award to New Zealand Organizing Committee, and World Madam Lifetime Achievement Award to Xuefen Mo. Peter Cheng, director of Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) Fushou Senior Center which was sponsored by World Madam Foundation for many times, expressed sincere gratitude and awarded honorary medals.

On the afternoon of December 13, World Madam representatives attended the UNCA 2024 Annual Ceremony, which was supported by World Madam Foundation. Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations and Ambassador representatives had a cordial talk with Anni Huang, World Madam representative and took a group photo.

On December 14, part award winner representatives and their friends and relatives shared their New York experience with honor on reception party held by Anni Huang. Finally, accompanied by the blessings of all representatives and award winners, World Madam 2024 International Culture Week wrapped up.

“WORLD MADAM” is an international brand with global influence. The term “madam” in WORLD MADAM is derived from the French “madame.” It is a polite and formal form of address for women in both English and French languages, pronounced as “ma dame.” It’s registered and initiated by Anni Huang in Canada, later, it operates globally in the way of China- America double headquarters by World Madam Group with support of World Madam Foundation. The aim of World Madam is to establish more female role models, promote the training of female talents, maintain social stability, help the underprivileged women and child, so as to facilitate the world peace and development. With the concept of “One Small Step for Madams, One Giant Leap for the World”, it has become a comprehensive service platform providing empowerment for women from all over the world. Through cultural activities that show female charm and spread their inspirational stories, World Madam aims to push forward the commercial layout and operation for global female entrepreneurship and employment.

Over the years, the brand has been considered as symbol of modern women fashion culture, even been called by people in this field as “Oscar” in women’s world. Since its foundation, hundreds of international activities have been taken place, which attracted millions of women from different countries and regions. These women not only demonstrated their personal talents and charm, but interpreted the core value of the brand World Madam and further enhanced the brand’s depth and connotation.

Over the years, the brand has been considered as symbol of modern women fashion culture, even been called by people in this field as “Oscar” in women’s world. Since its foundation, hundreds of international activities have been taken place, which attracted millions of women from different countries and regions. These women not only demonstrated their personal talents and charm, but interpreted the core value of the brand World Madam and further enhanced the brand’s depth and connotation.

According to De Wet, World Madam Group Global Secretary, as of December 2024, World Madam brand has got 80+ independent intellectual property rights around the world, established over 100 city meeting rooms and partner agencies, held more than one hundred large-scale series events and made charitable donations exceeding 100 times. Nearly 1 million women participated in its activities directly or indirectly, and once set a data record of more than 2 million people online watching worldwide, attracting over 700 mainstream media’s follow and report. In 2024, World Madam launched “Double 100” activity (100 madams endorse 100 brands) to build stronger connections with other international brands. Looking ahead, World Madam will continue to create diversified, open and inclusive career development platform for all women by means of brand cooperation and connection; pass positive energy and make greater contribution for our society with continuous innovation and cross-cultural development strategies.

After years of development, World Madam has shaped into a pattern that taking international cultural activities as their main axis, gradually cooperating with the global female and household consumer goods supply chain, and using a modern network operation mode combining online and offline. Besides, it also created salary incentive mechanism to assist global female in their entrepreneurship and employment, so as to form version 1.0 World Madam brand commercial closed-loop layout. This year (2024), keynote speeches and series of activities conducted by Anni Huang, the founder of World Madam, have repeatedly pushed its brand influence to a new high.

In 2025, World Madam Group will accelerate it’s brand upgrade to version 2.0 and expand the education and multimedia field. In the future, it will take advantage of the platform to build global live video streaming system, making the unemployed women caused by family issues or postpartum reasons as priority, and help them return to work or start new businesses. These initiatives will further strengthen the brand’s influence and appeal worldwide and present it’s social responsibility and global leadership perfectly.

WORLD MADAM List of winners of the 2024 Global Annual Selection

I. WORLD MADAM GROUP：

1、 World Madam 2024 Global Honorary Champion

Rokhaya Niang ｜SENEGAL

Nonhlanhla Jiyane ｜SOUTH AFRICA

Saran Somparé ｜REPUBIC OF GUINEA

2、World Madam 2024 Global Overall Champion:

Chan Laifong|MACAO   

Liora Michelle Green| AMERICA

3、World Madam 2024 Global Audience Choice Champion：

Xiangling Huang|CANADA

Naomi Parisette|AMERICA

4、World Madam 2024 Global Wisdom Champion：

Chen Yun|CANADA

5、World Madam 2024 Global Talent Champion：

Cheng Zou|AMERICA

6、World Madam 2024 Global Elegance Champion：

Yelin Liu|KOREA

7、World Madam 2024 Global Runner-up：

Jocelyn Bullock|VIETNAM

Haixiang Wang|CHINA

8、World Madam 2024 Global Third Place：

Xiaoying Wu|CHINA

Weiyan Huang|CANADA

9、World Madam 2024 Global Charity Ambassador：

Xu Ling|CANADA

10、World Madam 2024 Global Best in Family Harmony：

Chum Yee Yan|SINGAPRO

11、  World Madam 2024 Global Most Inspirational ：

Sophia So|THAILAND

II. WORLD MISS GROUP

1、World Miss 2024 Global Overall Champion:

Shayana Rex|CANADA

2、World Miss 2024 Global Audience Choice Champion：

Xiaojing XU |CHINA

3、World Miss 2024 Global Elegance Champion：

Aislinn Evans|AMERICA

4、World Miss 2024 Global Wisdom Champion：

Haitong Huang|CHINA

5、World Miss 2024 Global Talent Champion：

Desseri Dubhnath|GUYANA

6、World Miss 2024 Global Best in Vitality：

Maria Belen Paz Soldan De Ugarte |BOLIVIA

Daniela María Vasquez Segovia|El SALIVADOR

7、World Miss 2024 Global Most Fashionable：

Jasmine Metivier |FRANCH

III. WORLD JUNIOR GROUP

1、 –World Junior 2024 Global Overall Champion：

–World Junior 2024 Global Best Wisdom Award：

Helena Hou|NEW ZEALAND

2、 -World Junior 2024 Global Audience Choice Champion：

–World Junior 2024 Global Most Talent Award：

Tiffany Chen|AMERICA

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It’s the Year of the Wood Dragon: What to know about Lunar New Year celebrations

Lunar New Year, the beginning of the new year based on the lunisolar calendar, is almost here and the unique celebration has many festivities and traditions along with it.

When is the Lunar New Year?

Each year, the date on which the Lunar New Year occurs varies. In 2024, it falls on Saturday, Feb. 10. However, only the first seven days are considered a public holiday, from Feb. 10 to Feb. 16, according to Chinese New Year.

What is Lunar New Year all about?

According to the National Museum of Asian Art, the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the Spring Festival in China, celebrates the beginning of spring and the start of a new year on the lunisolar calendar. The most important holiday in China, other countries also widely celebrate such as South Korea and Vietnam.

First Lunar US Postal New Year Stamp 1992. Milestone Broadcast Corporation helped with the advertising and marketing efforts. Here is the First Mint Block of the stamp and marketing materials that helped to grow the sales. The stamp was a big hit and still is being created each year and sold worldwide.

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It was rare for the two rival Korean governments to agree to allow a group of peace activists to pass through the border area, known as the DMZ.

Yet some of the symbolism the activists had hoped to generate with their Women Cross DMZ campaign was lost when South Korea denied them permission to walk through Panmunjom, a border village where a truce was signed in 1953 to halt, though not formally end, the conflict, leaving the divided Korea technically in a state of war.

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Instead, the women, who had traveled from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, were detoured to a checkpoint southwest of Panmunjom. There, convoys of South Korean trucks go to and from a joint industrial park in the North Korean town of Kaesong. The women, carrying banners, were again barred from walking across the border, and had to cross by bus.

Still, they considered the endeavor a success. “We have accomplished what no one said can be done, which is to be a trip for peace, for reconciliation, for human rights and a trip to which both governments agreed,” Ms. Steinem told the South Korean news media. “We were able to be citizen diplomats.”

The women — including the Nobel Peace laureates Mairead Maguire from Northern Ireland and Leymah Gbowee from Liberia — arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday for the march, which they hoped would highlight the need to build peace and set the stage for Korean reunification by formally ending the war with a permanent peace treaty.

The crossing, however, took place amid tension over the North’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and over its human rights record.

Just two days before the women’s arrival in Pyongyang, the North’s state-run media hurled one of its harshest — and most sexist — screeds against President Park Geun-hye of South Korea, calling her “a fork-tongued viper” and one “not worth calling a woman” because “she has never given birth to a baby.” Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry said the North Korean government, led by Kim Jong-un, was “one of the most egregious examples of reckless disregard for human rights.”

Some rights activists in the United States and South Korea opposed the women’s trip, saying that it would be used as propaganda by North Korea. They urged the peace activists to call on the North to dismantle political prison camps and end human rights abuses.

When the activists marched in Pyongyang on Saturday, North Korean women in colorful traditional dresses lined a boulevard waving red and pink paper flowers, according to North Korean television footage.

One of the roadside signs said “Let us reunify the divided country as soon as possible!” On the other side of the border on Sunday, hundreds of South Korean activists welcomed the women who crossed into the South Korean city of Paju, north of Seoul. Not far away, however, hundreds of conservative South Koreans, including defectors from the North, also rallied, accusing the activists of “flattering Kim Jong-un” and promoting a “fake peace.”

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“Go back to the North!” they chanted.

The conservative protesters cited reports in the state-run North Korean news media that quoted some of the visitors as praising North Korean leaders. In its reports about the activists’ meetings with North Korean women in Pyongyang, the North’s Korean Central News Agency also cited “speakers” who it said called the United States “a kingdom of terrorism and a kingpin of human rights abuses.”

The conservatives said those reports proved that the activists had been used as propaganda tools by the North. But organizers of the trip said that none of the visiting women had uttered any of the remarks that were reported in the North Korean media. The organizers stressed that their trip had been aimed at easing the mistrust and hostility that not only divided the two Koreas but also people in the South.

Several South Korean activists have in the past defied the ban on visiting North Korea without government permission and traveled to Pyongyang to promote reconciliation. When they returned home to face arrest, North Korea gave them a rousing send-off at Panmunjom. South Korean officials did not want Ms. Steinem and her party to cross Panmunjom partly because they did not want North Korea to use the trip for similar propaganda.

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We are honored to cordially invite you to the “KMF 30^th Anniversary Concert,” also celebrating KCSNY’s 35^th Anniversary, that will take place at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on Friday, June 6^th at 8 PM. This concert is specially presented by the Korea Music Foundation and sponsored by the Korean Cultural Service NY.

The Concert features world-renowned musicians including Judy Kang, HaeSun Paik, Chin Kim, Min Kwon, Na-Young Baek, Yunah Lee, Beth Nam, Alina Lim, Rachel Calin, Anna Park, Jung Yeon Kim, who successfully made their debut in New York collaborating with KMF. The program will include Kodaly’s Violin and Cello Duo, Beethoven’s Eroica Variation and Fugue, Chausson’s Chanson Perpetuelle, and Schubert’s Trout Quintet.

The Korea Music Foundation (KMF) was founded in the State of New York as a non-profit organization in 1984. Since it’s inception, the foundation has presented over 300 solo New York debut recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Merkin Concert Hall; seven orchestra and chamber ensemble’s debut concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center and has presented established artists in concert for fundraising events at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. These artists include, Kun-Woo Paik, Dong-Suk Kang, Young Uck Kim, Alissa Park, HaeSun Paik and Daejin Kim. In 1999, KMF inaugurated a chamber music series at the Korean Cultural Service New York and has presented over 400 musicians at this venue. Since 2001, KMF launched the KMF Virtuoso Concert Series at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, presenting over 40 international musicians in chamber music concerts.

To RSVP, please contact the performing arts manager, Mr. Young Hwan Choi preferably by email at performingarts@koreanculture.org or by phone at 212-759-9550 (x205). He is currently able to reserve two to four complimentary tickets in your name. Please reserve your place by 5PM on May 23rd.

We look forward to seeing you at the concert.

Warm regards,

Young Hwan Choi

Performing Arts Manager

Korean Cultural Service NY

460 Park Ave. 6th Fl.

New York, NY 10022

212-759-9550 x205

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Dame Zhen Joy Lin was invited to watch The Flowers Rain along Silk Road Dance Drama at David Koch Lincoln Center in Manhattan on March 3. 2013, Dame Zhen Joy Lin interviewed Lu Jinlong who is Dean president of Gansu Dance Troupe, Senior art director and together with performer of Avolokatishvora who is great compassion of Buddha who ‘s birthday is today, we share the video to the world for celebrating Avolokatishvora’s birthday to thank her blessing, loving, kindness, great compassion and great merci to sentient beings.

Flower Rain Along Silk Road is making second silk road through perform art as well as Dame Zhen Joy Lin has been dancing Duhan Silk Road “Flying into the Sky’ and conbining eastern and western philosophy, culture, art, beauty, TaiChi, healing, science, fashion to connecting bridge between the east and west like a splendid rainbow

The Flower Rain along Silk Road

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