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![SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won, eleventh from front right; Busan Mayor Park Heong-joon, twelfth from front right; Heart to Heart Foundation President and CEO Oh Jee-chul, tenth from front right; Korea JoongAng Daily CEO Cheong Chul-gun, ninth from front right; and members of the diplomatic corps in Korea representing some 40 countries celebrate the opening of the Great Music Festival Charity Night Gala 2022 in Busan at the Asti Hotel in Busan on Friday. [PARK SANG-MOON]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11153960.jpg?imageId=11153960&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Eins Baum Chamber Orchestra, a 46-member group plays “Jubilo! Jubilo!” by Martin Cordner at the Great Music Festival in Konkuk University in Seoul on Tuesday. [PARK SANG-MOON]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/10250413.jpg?imageId=10250413&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Members of the diplomatic corps attend “Great Melody in the Forest,” a concert of musicians with developmental disabilities hosted by the SK Innovation and Korea JoongAng Daily, with the support of the Heart to Heart Foundation, at a forest at Mount Indeung, Chungju, North Chungcheong, on Friday. Countries represented by ambassadors and diplomats were, in alphabetical order: Belarus, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan. [PARK SANG-MOON]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11254757.jpg?imageId=11254757&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![Kim Jong-hoon, chairman of the board of directors of SK Innovation, fifth from front left, Cheong Chul-gun, CEO of the Korea JoongAng Daily, fourth from front left, and ambassadors and spouses partake in the 2021 Charity Night Gala, an evening concert with winners of the 5th Great Music Festival hosted by the SK Innovation and the Korea JoongAng Daily, at the Lotte Hotel Seoul on Tuesday. [PARK SANG-MOON]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11473036.jpg?imageId=11473036&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)
![A still image from the film ″A Long Way to School″ shows a mother of a child with developmental disabilities pleading with residents to allow the construction of a special-needs school in Gangseo District on Sept. 5, 2017. [JINJIN PICTURES]](https://image.koreajoongangdaily.com/11036476.jpg?imageId=11036476&width=240&height=184&format=webp&format=jpg)