There is a store which is managed by angels. The goods, donated from angels, are being sold to angels after having been repaired by angels, the benefits through selling these goods are divided to provide to those who need to help. CP family tried to become 'angels' to experience the world in which the angels are living...ED

The Beautiful Store, beautiful store
    The Beautiful Store's benefits come from selling goods for a cheap price. The goods, to obtain benefits, are totally donated; and it displayed after repaired and classified. Some people, who don't know The Beautiful Store well, bring their goods to exchange other things. However, they donate the things they brought when they listen to the system of The Beautiful Store.
    The Beautiful Store was separated from The Beautiful Fund, and it is being managed with three background philosophies. The first, 'spirit of reuse,' it is a motto that extends the world's life through circulation. In the world where vast numbers of products were made and wasted by greedy people, The Beautiful Store offered a suggestion that spirit of reuse to make 'circulation of right and equal.' Next is 'spirit of a net knot', it means relation between people and people. They have made effort to inform others that our life is organized to depend on other people, my life is strongly linked to other people's life, and it is linked with future, present, and past. The 'net knot' stands for it as well, net knot's figure and our life's figure are similar such that the weft and longitude were connected closely and hold other tightly. The last one is 'participation and share.' Share life for descendants to practice recycling, share my goods, time, and talents for neighbors to hope for the other's happiness like my happiness, and share hopes with the poor through fair trade and a flea market; That is, The Beautiful Store.
    The benefits through The Beautiful Store are restored to the society. They support not only the people who worry about schooling expenses, fees for medical treatment, and living expenses, but also programs that grass-roots corps wanted to do. Before anything else, they do an event, 'Nanum-boddari (bundle of share),' which is someone piles up bundles that someone donated. The Beautiful Store has made efforts that make beautiful not only store but also society.

Becoming 'angels'
     On January 13, CP family could become 'angel' during one day. Bae young-ok, general manager of The Beautiful Store, welcomed when the CP famliy opened the door.
    We listened to the explanation of The Beautiful Store, and we received nameplate which we used. Volunteers who volunteer in The Beautiful Store suspend their nameplate. 'Angel' was printed on the nameplate. You can be an 'angel' when you do volunteer work for other people or society. After raising our nameplate, we moved on to start work. 

The beautiful created from naught
     We started the work at 'Deosalimteo (restore room)'. That is, angels repair and classify goods, which were donated from angels, to display or re-donate. All angels were welcomed with smile when we entered the Deosalimteo.
     We could meet a Chungdaite there. His name is Park sang-pil. He started volunteer work to get points, but he was moved by The Beautiful Store so he does volunteer work regularly. Also, he expressed The Beautiful Store as the beautiful thing created from naught. The beginning of The Beautiful Store was obviously naught. They didn't prepare goods for selling, but they have made society beautiful by donating, selling and returning. Likewise, the power which makes society beautiful is coming from the 'We.' 
    Donated goods are almost always clothes. Therefore, Deosalimteo's biggest duty is to classify clothes by discharging them or marking them as reuseable; particular dust is coming out during this step. Angels were worried about their health because of the particular dust, but they repair clothes constantly anyway. The society is to become beautiful because there are some people who strive in the background for others.

The reason that The Beautiful Store becomes beautiful
     It is citizen's participating that The Beautiful Store can be managed. In other words, The Beautiful Store can't be managed without the participation of citizens.
    The Beautiful store should be appreciated for two reasons. First, 'supporting the weak,' the ultimate goal of The Beautiful Store.
    Second, 'recycling of resources.' Korea's discharge of trash per year is high in the world. At home, they discharge useless stuffs and clothes instead of recycling. The amount of trash declines after the trash meter-rate system, and pursuit reuse of resources through separate collection but more is still needed.
    For these reasons, The Beautiful Store can be a good method for the recycling of resources. If you donate useless stuffs to The Beautiful Store, they repair and sell without delay, and they can help the weak. Therefore, we can expect a chain-effect.
    However, citizen's active participation is needed to help The Beautiful store become beautiful. An angel's flutter is too weak to change the world, but the world must be beautiful when large numbers of angels participate.

By  Kim Yeon-woong  CP Reporter
kenesys@cnu.ac.kr