을사년 새해 아침이 밝았습니다. (New Year’s morning has broken.)
지난 해 보여주셨던 호의와 관심에 깊은 감사 드립니다.
새해에는 建安 하시고 平安 하시고 소망하시는 일들이 모두 성취되기를 기원합니다.
感謝 윤강로 拜上
Dear Global Sport-Loving Friends,
As the New Year’s morning has broken, I would like to take this opportunity to send to you my personal New Year’s Greetings 2025.
In particular, I am most grateful to you for what you have shared with me so far. “I am because of you!”
My life experiences are telling me as the Bible says, “Love your neighbors like yourself, do good deeds, take care of those who are in need, help others whenever you can.” Otherwise we will all regret afterwards. Because life is but an empty dream after all.
At the farewell reception of the Seoul Olympic Legacy Forum held on 23 October 2024, I was asked to propose a toast:
“As one and only person who has been deeply engaged and involved both in the Seoul1988 Olympic Organizing Committee and the PyeongChang2028 Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee, I am very delighted to propose a toast for all participants attending the 2024 Seoul Olympic Legacy Forum.
As Aristotle once said, we are what we repeatedly do, Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Legacy is a form of sustainable habit. So we belong to Excellence group.
The fundamental values in the new era would be Resilience, Adaptability, Creativity, Flexibility, a high rate of learning, and certainly Familiarity of the tools, such as AI and state-of-the art technology equipment.
As the old saying dictates, “When it comes to M.S. and the Speech, the shorter, the better.
Sustainability is Legacy, and Legacy is ESG. ESG is for SGDs. Therefore, now I propose a toast. When I say “ESG-oriented SDGs, then you say “Legacy”!
Partnership is embracing, and embracing is sharing, and sharing is gathering, and gathering is the essence of the Olympic values and philosophy of Baron Pierre de Coubertin who emphasized the importance of Education through Sport while enjoying Sport and Art working together.
As one of the Korean Olympic Community members, I have been deeply engaged and involved in both Organizing Committees of the Seoul1988 Olympics and PyeongChang2028 Olympic Winter Games, I am very much honored and privileged to represent together with you the human Olympic legacy of the Global Olympic Movement and beyond. Heritage is contextualized as Legacy, and Legacy is Sustainability, and Sustainability is an essence of ESG-oriented SDGs, together.
(Third from left is Rocky YOON with his right hand raised as a sign of welcome to Seoul 1988 Games at the Closing Ceremonies of LA1984 Olympics)
