# Seoul Peace Prize

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Seoul Peace Prize Location Seoul Established 1990 Website http://www.spp.or.kr/

The **Seoul Peace Prize** was established in 1990 as a biennial recognition with monetary award to commemorate the success of the [24th Summer Olympic Games](/source/1988_Summer_Olympics) held in [Seoul](/source/Seoul), South Korea, an event in which 160 nations from across the world took part, creating harmony and friendship. The Seoul Peace Prize was established to crystallize the wishes of the Korean people for peace in the [Korean peninsula](/source/Korean_peninsula) and the rest of the world. The nominating group, the Seoul Peace Prize Cultural Foundation, consists of 500 Korean nationals and 800 internationals. The awardee receives a diploma, a plaque and honorarium of US$200,000.

Past Seoul Peace Prize recipients have gone on to be nominated and awarded the [Nobel Peace Prize](/source/Nobel_Peace_Prize), including [Médecins Sans Frontières](/source/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res) (1996 SPP, 1999 NPP) and Bangladeshi Dr. [Muhammad Yunus](/source/Muhammad_Yunus) (2006 SPP, 2006 NPP), the founder of [Grameen Bank](/source/Grameen_Bank) which pioneered the concept of [microcredit](/source/Microcredit) for supporting innovators in multiple developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, and also inspired programs such as the Infolady Social Entrepreneurship Programme[1][2] of Dnet (A Social Enterprise).

## Recipients

Year Recipient Country 1990 Juan Antonio Samaranch Spain 1992 George Shultz United States 1996 Médecins Sans Frontières Switzerland 1998 Kofi Annan Ghana 2000 Sadako Ogata Japan 2002 Oxfam United Kingdom 2004 Václav Havel Czech Republic 2006 Muhammad Yunus Bangladesh 2008 Suzanne Scholte United States 2010 José Antonio Abreu Venezuela 2012 Ban Ki-moon South Korea 2014 Angela Merkel Germany 2016 Denis Mukwege Democratic Republic of the Congo 2018 Narendra Modi India 2020 Thomas Bach Germany 2022 Tim Berners-Lee United Kingdom 2025 Direct Relief United States

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Internet rolls into Bangladesh villages on a bike"](http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/global-news/asia/bangladesh/3284-internet-info-ladies.html). *www.asafeworldforwomen.org*.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Info Ladies – Riding Internet into Rural Bangladesh! | Amader Kotha"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140317182454/http://amaderkotha.com.bd/2012/11/08/info-ladies-riding-internet-into-rural-bangladesh/). Archived from [the original](http://amaderkotha.com.bd/2012/11/08/info-ladies-riding-internet-into-rural-bangladesh) on 2014-03-17. Retrieved 2014-05-22.

## External links

- [Seoul Peace Prize website](http://www.spp.or.kr/eng/main.asp?url=10stPrizeWinner&tab1=10&tab2=1)

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