GT Screening

Georgia Tech LiNK's 1st screening!

November 16, 2011
Thank you to all who came out to GT LINK's first screening. We had a great turn-out of about 70 people! It was amazing to see all who came out in spite of the tornado warning that evening and it being a Wednesday night. A special thanks to all our external guests who braved the rains and confusing parking at Tech to make it to our screening! Lastly, a big thank you to our wonderful members who really came through in preparation for the event and for working so hard during the event. It was all thanks to your efforts that our screening could go so smoothly and reach out to so many people. Members passed out fliers on Skiles from Thursday of the week before the screening until the day of the screening and also met up at night for chalking in front of SC and CULC. We had about 85% of our regular members attending and helping out with the screening whether by setting up or greeting. You guys are the best!
The Southeast Nomad team were awesome and so inspiring. Thanks Zane, Paloma and Jenna for rocking GT! We miss you guys already!
The screening itself consisted of introduction by the nomads, a screening of the Hiding: a beautifully-produced LiNK original documentary about LiNK's efforts to rescue and resettle North Korean refugees, and a Q&A session with the nomads. It was really great to see how many great questions the audience had for the nomads and how moved the audience was by The Hiding.
After the screening, a reception was held outside the Student Center Theater where the nomads were available to answer additional questions and to sell LiNK merchandise. GT LiNK also accepted donations at this time with those donating over a dollar receiving a GT LiNK cookie! Through generous donations, GT LiNK raised $92.50 that night. Thank you so much for everybody's support and generosity!

Cookie?

GT LiNK officers with Prof. Jang.

4th General Meeting

November 9, 2011

We had our 4th general meeting on November 9 and discussed planning for the upcoming screening on November 16! At the meeting, we implemented a new points system, in which members earn points for whatever contributions they make to our chapter. The member with the most points at the end of each month will be recognized and rewarded!

For the screening, we set our goal as 70 attending! After watching the Hiding documentary teaser, Advocacy committee members signed up to advertise by chalking and passing out fliers on Skiles during the week before and after the screening. Fundraising committee organized a cookie fundrasier to be held at the screening, where those who donated over a dollar would get a complementary LiNK cookie! Fundraising committee signed-up to bake and package cookies on Tuesday, Nov 15, the day before the screening. Social Committee organized sign-ups for members to greet guests, set-up before the event, and clean-up after the event and also organized reservations for and driving to Chulgi-sidae with the nomads and general body members for Korean BBQ afterwards!

4th GM presentation

3rd General Meeting

We had our 3rd General Body meeting on November 2. Sam presented a video about Joseph, a North Korean refugee with a passion for soccer. We also asked members to please join our facebook group and pay dues to become an official member. The new officer board was presented and each officer introduced themselves. The general body then separated into their committee of choice. As of now, approximately 18 people are in advocacy committee, 6 people are in fundraising and 6 are in social. We began organizing our screening with plans for advocacy to begin advertising with chalking by next week. GT LiNK Hwaiting!!!

GT LiNK Fall 2011 Officer Board

Congratulations to our new officer board. I'm excited to see all that we accomplish together in the coming year.
Secretary- Grace Oh
Treasurer- Cathy Heo
Committee Chairs
Advocacy Committee Chairs: Hyeji Park & Joan Chung
Fundraising Committee Chair: Chelsey Shin
Social Committee Chair: Kyoung-chan Kwak

October Updates

October was a great start-up month for the GT chapter of LiNK. Thank you to everyone who has shown interest and support for our organization! We are excited to see what the last month of our first semester has in store for us. For now, here's a recap of what we've been up to in the past month.
October 5- LiNK 1st General Body Meeting
We had a great turn-out for the GT LiNK's first general body meeting. We discussed who we are as a non-profit, humanitarian organization, our goals for the semester and the background of the national LiNK headquarters.

October 12- LiNK 2nd General Body Meeting
Thanks for everyone who came out to our follow-up 2nd general body meeting. We introduced the three committees of fundraising, social and advocacy that everyone would be working in and worked together as a social committee to plan a samgyupsal party and monopoly deal tournament.

October 19- LiNK Social: Samgyupsal Party + Monopoly Deal Tournament
From 6:00-9:00 pm, LiNK members got to know each other better over a delicious meal of samgyupsal. Dinner was followed by an intense tournament of Monopoly Deal. Congratulations to Cindy Lee, the winner of the tournament, and Kyoung-Chan Kwak, runner-up of the tournament.

Rice Festival

On October 8, 2011, Georgia Tech LINK participated in AARC's Rice Festival at Stone Mountain Park. A special thanks to our AARC correspondent Ms. Julie Lee, for coordinating and making it possible for GT LiNK to booth at this event as well as to our sponsor, Ms. Eun Choi for providing supplies and funding for the booth.

From 11am-5pm, GT LiNK gave free lessons in folding paper-stars, while spreading awareness of the North Korean crisis and how the Atlanta community to contribute to the crisis. Thank you to all who contributed to our star-jar! We will be auctioning/ raffling off the filled jar soon! Also, thank you to those who gave donations, we received $38.78 in donations through your generosity. :)

GT LiNK's booth at the Rice Festival!

VP External: Sam Kim, GT LiNK volunteer: Grace Oh, VP Internal: Minna Choi, and Co-Pres: Mark Aw. Thanks for all your hard work at this event!

Dr. Chung Un-Chan, Former Prime Minister of South Korea attended this event and LiNK officers had the opportunity to attend a Q&A session with Dr. Chung!

GT LiNK exec board had the opportunity to meet former Prime Minister of South Korea, Dr. Chung Un-Chan. Thank you to AARC for this opportunity!

Grace hard at work on poster: Paper Stars for LiNK. Make three for a star lollipop!

Introducing Co-President, Daniel Kim and VP External, Sam Kim.

Sam and Grace teaching how to fold a paper star

Thanks to our LiNK officers and Grace for making this event a success!

Thanks again to our GT LiNK officers, volunteers, and sponsors , AARC and all those who visited our booth!

Fall 2011!

We kicked off our official chapter activities this Fall 2011 semester and our chapter is off to a great start!
On September 1, we tabled at Georgia Tech's Involvement Week. As our first on-campus event that spread awareness about LiNK, it was exciting to meet students who were moved to have a heart for the North Korean crisis.

On October 5, we had our first general meeting. Thank you to everybody who came out! We have a lot coming for this semester, so let's all work together to become a voice for the voiceless!

 "Many small people, who in many small places, do many small things, can alter the face of the world." - slogan on the Berlin Wall

Welcome to GT LINK's blog!

Welcome to the blog of The Georgia Tech Chapter of LINK. Our organization is a chapter of the nationally based Liberty in North Korea organization. Our job as a chapter is to raise awareness of the human rights crisis in North Korea and to raise funds, which will contribute to programs funding resettlement for North Korean refugees seeking freedom. We hope that you will join us in our fight against these crimes against humanity!