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Dinner with famous monk sells for 10 million won
Buddhist monk Haemin gives a lecture at Seoul National University in June 2012. / Korea Times file
By Kim Bo-eun
A dinner and mentoring session with Buddhist monk Ven. Haemin have sold at auction for 10 million won.
K Auction, an artworks auctioneer, said the sale started at 3 million won and ended at 10 million won (11.32 million won including commission), Wednesday.
The successful bidder and three others will attend the dinner and mentoring session.
The money, with the exception of meal costs, will be donated to WeStart to support children from low-income families.
The Harvard-educated monk became better known as a youth mentor after his "Things You Can Finally See When You Stop" became a bestseller in 2012.
Haemin Sunim has more than 1 million followers on Twitter, mostly young people. He also was the first Korean monk to teach in the United States, as a professor at Hampshire College in Massachusetts.