module name article_title citizenship occupation
hangul okhwan rr = yun ok-hwan child = yes = 윤옥환 hanja = ! mr = yun okhwan yoon okhwan yoon
 south korean activist for unify korea
okhwan yoon

okhwan yoon is a south korean peace activist who has traveled to 193 countries by bicycle since 2001 in order to reunify the korean peninsula .
he is also a philosopher , writer , political analyst and peace activist .
okhwan yoon got his first bike when he was 6 years old and started to cycle around the rooms of his family home .
in his teenage years , after coming back from school , he would ride around the villages near seoul until it got dark .
he wondered who lived behind the mountains and what it looked like there .
his mother raised him to be independent .
in 1984 , yoon was arrested while demonstrating against the chun doo-hwan regime .
as a university student he was thrown into prison and tortured after peacefully protesting for korean reunification during the chun military regime .
in 1987 yoon graduated in law with a bachelor 's degree and in 1991 he started a trading company in south korea .
in june 2001 , he quit his career as a businessman .
he embarked on a bicycle journey , his stated purpose to support the idea of a more peaceful world and to plant the seed of the reunification of korea .
he has survived five car crashes which resulted in surgery , contracted malaria five times , was kidnapped in afghanistan and south sudan , and almost lost his life from extreme heat and cold .
he was brutally beaten and illegally arrested by police in thailand and has undergone severe psychological trauma as a result of the human rights violation .
in september 2009 yoon met marek mackovič , a slovakian director , in cyprus .
marek started to shoot a feature-length film about yoon .
on july 24 , 2010 , he filmed him in kathmandu , nepal and submitted the footage for the `` life in a day '' project , directed by kevin macdonald and produced by ridley scott .
as top contributors , marek mackovič and okhwan yoon were invited to the premiere at sundance film festival , where it debuted in january 2011 .
in the summer of 2014 , okhwan visited the cook islands , the 193rd country on his journey that has spanned over six continents .
he has been to every u.n. country aside from north korea .
he ran marathons in prague and france -lrb- nice-cannes -rrb- in 2011 .
he plans to climb mt. everest with his bicycle , and to visit micronesia , tuvalu , and aruba .
he eventually hopes to join the national assembly of south korea and publish a book about his journey .
