Seoul Peace Prize
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 held in 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 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, including Médecins Sans Frontières and Bangladeshi Dr. Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank which pioneered the concept of 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 of Dnet.
Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Country |
| 1990 | Juan Antonio Samaranch | |
| 1992 | George Shultz | |
| 1996 | Médecins Sans Frontières | |
| 1998 | Kofi Annan | |
| 2000 | Sadako Ogata | |
| 2002 | Oxfam | |
| 2004 | Václav Havel | |
| 2006 | Muhammad Yunus | |
| 2008 | Suzanne Scholte | |
| 2010 | José Antonio Abreu | |
| 2012 | Ban Ki-moon |  South KoreaCountry|GermanyCountry|Democratic Republic of the CongoCountry|IndiaCountry|GermanyCountry|United KingdomCountry|United States |