LiNK lectures at Songang U. this Saturday

Liberation in North Korea will be having a lecture series on human rights in North Korea this Saturday:

In place of the [regular weekly] meeting will be a series of speakers, discussing the significance of North Korean Human rights. The information for the lecture can be found below.

Host Organizations: LiNK, Gyodubo, Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea

Date: 2005, November 26th 13:00-18:00

Venue: Seogang University, Matthew Hall, Room 104

If going by subway, take the #6 line (brown) to Daeheung Station or the #2 line (green) to Shinchon Station and walk to the main gate (see map below).

Click on the map if you want to print a copy.

After you go through the main gate, keep to the left.  Mathew Hall is the tall building on the left (north).  In the map above, it is colored light blue.  If you need more detail check out this map.

See you there.

UPDATE:  Here is the full program:

LiNK Seoul, Students Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea, and Gyodubo present:
                  

Why Should We Care?

The film screening & Lectures on North Korean Human Rights  

Host organizations : LiNK (Liberty in North Korea), Gyodubo,

and Students' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights 

Date : November. 26^th. 2005 13:00-17:00pm

Venue : Sogang University, MatthewHall, Room 104

Featuring: 

I.  Introduction : (13:00-13:05) Ik-hwan Kim

(The representative of Students' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights)

II. Welcoming speech : (13:10-13:10) Jeff Choi & Nari Been

(Co-representatives of LiNK Seoul Office)

III. Film Showing (Food and beverage will be served)

IV. Lectures

Session 1 1:40-2:50

The importance of North Korean human rights movement

Chol-Hwan Kang (The author of 'Aquariums of Pyongyang' who met the President Bush at the White House in June 2005 ) 

Kang Chol-hwan is the first survivor of one of these camps to escape and tell his story to the world, documenting the extreme conditions in these gulags and providing a personal insight into life in North Korea. He is the reporter in South Korea as well as the author of 'The Aquariums of Pyongyang' - Part horror story, part historical document, part memoir, part political tract, this record of one man's suffering gives eyewitness proof to an ongoing sorrowful chapter of modern history.

Session 2 2:50-4:00

Why am I working for North Korean human rights as a non-Korean?

Tim Peters (Representative, Helping Hands Korea)

Tim Peters is based in Seoul and runs an organization to help North Korean refugees, Helping Hands Korea (HHK). HHK, a Christian mission established in Seoul in 1990, launched its first endeavor to assist North Koreans in crisis in 1996, by providing famine relief to the northeastern portion of the impoverished nation, particularly to schools and orphanages.  HHK Director Tim Peters has given Congressional testimony in Washington DC on two occasions and sat on other  expert panels (e.g. American Enterprise Institute) in an advocacy role for North Korean human rights and humanitarian aid community. In January 2002, the work of HHK was mentioned in a presentation before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom in the testimony of noted author and expert on North Korean issues, Chuck Downs.

Session 3 4:00 -5:00

The role of Korean college students and South Koreans for North Korean human rights

Young-Hwan Kim (Editorial Board in The DailyNK.com )   

Young-Hwan Kim is a former member of 'HanChongRyun', the leftist student group that supports North Korean government for the reason of Korean nationalism. However, he changed his mind after having experienced the severe suffering of North Koreans and he now works for human rights in North Korea. He is a well-known columnist of The Daily NK.com and helps people understand why we should care about North Korean human rights issues. His personal experience is co-related to the modern history of Korea and his interesting and frank stories will help us have a deep understanding about Korean society as well as the importance of North Korean human rights.

V. Closing: Young-seok Suh (The representative of Gyodubo)

Comments

[Mike]

Excellent map, thanks!

Mike

[usinkorea]

I haven't heard anything back about the idea of filming some or all of the speakers to put on the interent to increase access greatly.

As I noted at Marmots, I've got space and bandwidth to offer if they don't have a webplace to put stuff like that up.

I think getting the videos, especially speeches in English, would greatly increase the ability to reach out to people with the message.

It shouldn't be hard to accomplish either, and if not with this event, it would make sense for LiNK and similar groups to get a website video section up and running to bring the effort together and increase its reach.

Just a suggestion...

[Andy (AKA, The Yangban)]

That is a good idea.

I will talk to Jeff Choi (the guy in charge of LiNK-Seoul) about it. He seems to be as bad with tech as I am, so he may need some help.

In short, let me get back to you on that.

[usinkorea]

To get something up, all you would need is a camcorder and a tripod and somebody to push the record and stop buttons.

Then, if they don't have someone to work with it or a place to put it, we can work on a way to transfer the footage to me via the internet. Loading into a computer is simple if you have a cord which camcorders usually come with. Transferring it through the internet is even more simple.

I can work with it from there, but even there, I don't consider it would be much editing at all beyond putting a title with it.

Then it would be up on the net for anybody to watch.

I've suggested this to the Korea branch of the royal asiatic society as well.

I think there is enough interest around the world to make investing a little money in storage space and bandwidth worthwhile. Doing something like C-Span does with committee meetings is simple and low budget and low tech.

Good luck...

[usinkorea]

By the last paragraph, I wasn't talking about this meeting this weekend, I was just thinking about all the different Korea-related groups that put on presentations like this. A group like the royal asiatic society should be the type that would want to put up some video for all to see.

If I were the head of some group like LiNK too, I'd want to utilize the great resource of the internet broadban revolution.

Voice of People and The Priest and the guys over at www.chunchng.net figured that out long ago.

It would be nice to see some Korea related video put up for free that is positive for a change.....

[adrian]

great ideas, guys.
we'll do it. let's talk.