Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
First LINK General Meeting
GT LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) had its first general meeting of the year on September 5, 2012 at IC Room 217!
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| Krispy Kreme doughnuts were provided! |
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| Mr. President and the Secretary |
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Fall 2012: 1st General Meeting
September 5, 2012
Fall 2012 1st General Meeting
Welcome back! Liberty in North Korea at Georgia Tech kicked off the fall 2012 semester with it's first General meeting on Wednesday, September 5 at 6 pm in IC Room 217. We had a brief intro to what we do as an organization and our mission to raise awareness and funds to help refugee resettlement programs as well as organizations sending medical aid to North Korea.
We will be assisting Zero Tuberculosis this Saturday with their 1st Zero TB Health Conference as well as with the Zero TB Golf Fundraising event the following saturday on September 15. They are still looking for volunteers, so please let us know if you'd be interested in helping out at these two great events.
We also introduced our new officer board for the 2012-2013 school-year:
President - Daniel Kim
VP External - Minna Choi
VP Internal - Grace Oh
Secretary - Jacob Mok
Treasurer - Hyeji Park
Historian - Chris Yun
Fundraising Co-chair - Chelsey Shin
Fundraising Co-chair - John Cho
Advocacy Chair - Eddy Kim
Membership Chair - Mingie Song
Artistic Director - Joan Chung
Hope everyone enjoyed the Krispy Kreme donuts and coffee station. Our next meeting will be on September 19, 2012 at 6pm in IC Room 217, so hope to see you all there!
Fall 2012 1st General Meeting
Welcome back! Liberty in North Korea at Georgia Tech kicked off the fall 2012 semester with it's first General meeting on Wednesday, September 5 at 6 pm in IC Room 217. We had a brief intro to what we do as an organization and our mission to raise awareness and funds to help refugee resettlement programs as well as organizations sending medical aid to North Korea.
We will be assisting Zero Tuberculosis this Saturday with their 1st Zero TB Health Conference as well as with the Zero TB Golf Fundraising event the following saturday on September 15. They are still looking for volunteers, so please let us know if you'd be interested in helping out at these two great events.
We also introduced our new officer board for the 2012-2013 school-year:
President - Daniel Kim
VP External - Minna Choi
VP Internal - Grace Oh
Secretary - Jacob Mok
Treasurer - Hyeji Park
Historian - Chris Yun
Fundraising Co-chair - Chelsey Shin
Fundraising Co-chair - John Cho
Advocacy Chair - Eddy Kim
Membership Chair - Mingie Song
Artistic Director - Joan Chung
Hope everyone enjoyed the Krispy Kreme donuts and coffee station. Our next meeting will be on September 19, 2012 at 6pm in IC Room 217, so hope to see you all there!
Spring 2012 Wrap-up
April 21, 2012
Spring 2012 end of year banquet
Thanks to all our wonderful LiNK officers and members for making our first year at Georgia Tech such a success! We celebrated a successful first year of the 1st Liberty in North Korea chapter at Georgia Tech on April 21, 2012 with a end-of-year banquet as a thank you to the passion and giving hearts of all our members and supporters. Special thank again to SANPC and Ms. Eun Choi for providing the food for our celebration and delivering a motivating message to our members. Also, we celebrated the graduation of our VP Internal, Sam Kim at our banquet.
In the 2011-2012 term, we raised $1,449.40 in donations. Our major advocacy events included the fall screening with approximately 80 attendees, the spring guest speaker event with Mr. Song-Byeok, which had about 250 attendees, and outreach to the Atlanta community through our booth at the Rice Festival at Stone mountain in October. Our main fundraising events included our cookie fundraiser at the fall screening and cake-pop fundraiser in February.
See you in the fall for our 2012-2013 school-year for more updates on GT LiNK! :)
Spring 2012 end of year banquet
Thanks to all our wonderful LiNK officers and members for making our first year at Georgia Tech such a success! We celebrated a successful first year of the 1st Liberty in North Korea chapter at Georgia Tech on April 21, 2012 with a end-of-year banquet as a thank you to the passion and giving hearts of all our members and supporters. Special thank again to SANPC and Ms. Eun Choi for providing the food for our celebration and delivering a motivating message to our members. Also, we celebrated the graduation of our VP Internal, Sam Kim at our banquet.
In the 2011-2012 term, we raised $1,449.40 in donations. Our major advocacy events included the fall screening with approximately 80 attendees, the spring guest speaker event with Mr. Song-Byeok, which had about 250 attendees, and outreach to the Atlanta community through our booth at the Rice Festival at Stone mountain in October. Our main fundraising events included our cookie fundraiser at the fall screening and cake-pop fundraiser in February.
See you in the fall for our 2012-2013 school-year for more updates on GT LiNK! :)
Thursday, February 23, 2012
February 23, 2012: Lecture by Mr. Song Byeok
February 23, 2012
Georgia Tech had the honor of hosting Mr. Song Byeok for a lecture and Q&A session in the East Architecture building Rm 123 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm on February 23, 2012. Mr. Song Byeok defected to South Korea in 2002 after years of working as a propagandist for the North Korean regime since the age of 24. Mr. Song Byeok now bravely uses his artistic talents to speak out against the regime, creating satirical pop-art work and in turn, boldly voicing his criticisms of the regime. Mr. Song Byeok makes his U.S. debut in Atlanta from February 17-26 with his exhibition entitled "Departure." Alongside his art exhibition at the Goat Farm Art Center in Atlanta, Mr. Song Byeok also spoke of his life and artwork at various Universities and college including Georgia Tech.
The lecture at Georgia Tech was sponsored by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Department of Modern Languages. Special thanks to Mr. Gregory Pence for extending this opportunity to Georgia Tech and for his efforts in coordinating for the event. Also, thank you to Professor Jang, director of the Korean language program at Georgia Tech, for giving GT LiNK the opportunity to organize the Guest Speaker event and also for his efforts with coordination and encouraging students of the Korean language program and Department of Modern languages to attend the lecture. Thank you Mrs. Eun Choi who so graciously sponsored the generous reception for the night via SANPC clinic and the Korean Medical Association of Georgia!
A big thank you to everyone who came out to give Mr. Song Byeok such a warm and enthusiastic welcome to Georgia Tech. We had approximately 250-300 attendees for the night. Thank you so much and we sincerely hope you took away a lot from listening to Mr. Song Byeok speak.
Lastly, a huge thank you to all of our amazing volunteers and GT LiNK members and officers. Amazing job Chelsey Shin and Kyoung-chan Kwak for being the translators for the night. Also, thank you to our President Daniel Kim, VP Sam Kim, Secretary Grace Oh and Advocacy Chairs Hyeji Park and Joan Chung for their efforts in preparation for the event. And of course thank you to GT LiNK members: Cathy Nguyen, Taejin Kim, Larry Kim, Yumy Lee, Alvin Lam, Brian Biggs, John Cho, Eddy Kim, Mingie Song and Jiwon Hyun for all your hard-work during the event!
Check out pictures of the event below!
Mr. Song Byeok speaking about the culture shock he encountered in South Korea. Thank you to our translators: Chelsey Shin and Kyoung-Chan Kwak.
Thank you to GT students for such a great turnout!
Group picture of GT LiNK officers (left to right: Kyoung-chan Kwak, Chelsey Shin, Minna Choi, Ms. Nicole Conrad, Professor Jang, Mr. Song Byeok, Gregory Pence, Sam Kim and Daniel Kim) and advisor, Professor Jang with Mr. Song Byeok, Gregory Pence, Ms. Nicole Conrad and Zero TB President Yang
GT LINK members, Cathy Nguyen and Taejin Kim helping to sell merchandise showcasing Mr. Song Byeok's work.
Reception
Thank you to our GT LiNK members and officers (left to right: Yumy Lee, Brian Biggs, Joan Chung, Larry Kim, Grace Oh, Alvin Lam and Hyeji Park) who were servers for the reception~
Dessert for the reception.
Reception prepared!!
Cake presented to Mr. Song Byeok by GT LINK.
Group picture of all the GT LiNK officers and advisor, Professor Jang, with Mr. Song Byeok, Gregory Pence, Ms. Nicole Conrad and Zero TB President Yang. Before the cutting of the cake~
Cutting of the cake~
Mr. Song Byeok signing for GT Students
Mr. Song Byeok showing off Georgia Tech LiNK's present.
Mr. Song Byeok modelling GT LiNK's present to him. Mr. Song Byeok is pictured with VP External, Minna Choi.
A big thank you to the hard-working officers who helped set-up and stayed behind to clean up after the reception!
Georgia Tech had the honor of hosting Mr. Song Byeok for a lecture and Q&A session in the East Architecture building Rm 123 from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm on February 23, 2012. Mr. Song Byeok defected to South Korea in 2002 after years of working as a propagandist for the North Korean regime since the age of 24. Mr. Song Byeok now bravely uses his artistic talents to speak out against the regime, creating satirical pop-art work and in turn, boldly voicing his criticisms of the regime. Mr. Song Byeok makes his U.S. debut in Atlanta from February 17-26 with his exhibition entitled "Departure." Alongside his art exhibition at the Goat Farm Art Center in Atlanta, Mr. Song Byeok also spoke of his life and artwork at various Universities and college including Georgia Tech.
The lecture at Georgia Tech was sponsored by Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and Department of Modern Languages. Special thanks to Mr. Gregory Pence for extending this opportunity to Georgia Tech and for his efforts in coordinating for the event. Also, thank you to Professor Jang, director of the Korean language program at Georgia Tech, for giving GT LiNK the opportunity to organize the Guest Speaker event and also for his efforts with coordination and encouraging students of the Korean language program and Department of Modern languages to attend the lecture. Thank you Mrs. Eun Choi who so graciously sponsored the generous reception for the night via SANPC clinic and the Korean Medical Association of Georgia!
A big thank you to everyone who came out to give Mr. Song Byeok such a warm and enthusiastic welcome to Georgia Tech. We had approximately 250-300 attendees for the night. Thank you so much and we sincerely hope you took away a lot from listening to Mr. Song Byeok speak.
Lastly, a huge thank you to all of our amazing volunteers and GT LiNK members and officers. Amazing job Chelsey Shin and Kyoung-chan Kwak for being the translators for the night. Also, thank you to our President Daniel Kim, VP Sam Kim, Secretary Grace Oh and Advocacy Chairs Hyeji Park and Joan Chung for their efforts in preparation for the event. And of course thank you to GT LiNK members: Cathy Nguyen, Taejin Kim, Larry Kim, Yumy Lee, Alvin Lam, Brian Biggs, John Cho, Eddy Kim, Mingie Song and Jiwon Hyun for all your hard-work during the event!
Check out pictures of the event below!
Mr. Song Byeok speaking about the culture shock he encountered in South Korea. Thank you to our translators: Chelsey Shin and Kyoung-Chan Kwak.
Thank you to GT students for such a great turnout!
Group picture of GT LiNK officers (left to right: Kyoung-chan Kwak, Chelsey Shin, Minna Choi, Ms. Nicole Conrad, Professor Jang, Mr. Song Byeok, Gregory Pence, Sam Kim and Daniel Kim) and advisor, Professor Jang with Mr. Song Byeok, Gregory Pence, Ms. Nicole Conrad and Zero TB President Yang
GT LINK members, Cathy Nguyen and Taejin Kim helping to sell merchandise showcasing Mr. Song Byeok's work.
Reception
Thank you to our GT LiNK members and officers (left to right: Yumy Lee, Brian Biggs, Joan Chung, Larry Kim, Grace Oh, Alvin Lam and Hyeji Park) who were servers for the reception~
Dessert for the reception.
Reception prepared!!
Cake presented to Mr. Song Byeok by GT LINK.
Group picture of all the GT LiNK officers and advisor, Professor Jang, with Mr. Song Byeok, Gregory Pence, Ms. Nicole Conrad and Zero TB President Yang. Before the cutting of the cake~
Cutting of the cake~
Mr. Song Byeok signing for GT Students
Mr. Song Byeok showing off Georgia Tech LiNK's present.
Mr. Song Byeok modelling GT LiNK's present to him. Mr. Song Byeok is pictured with VP External, Minna Choi.
A big thank you to the hard-working officers who helped set-up and stayed behind to clean up after the reception!
Friday, February 17, 2012
February 17: Visit to Song-Byeok's Art Exhibit: Departure
February 17, 2012
GT LiNK executive board, Daniel Kim, Sam Kim and Minna Choi made a trip to the Goat Farm Art Center in Atlanta to attend the opening night of Song Byeok's Atlanta debut art exhibition: Departure. Song Byeok is a former North Korean propaganda artist who defected to South Korea in 2002. He now uses his new-found artistic freedom to express ideals of democracy and the fundamental need for freedom for all humans. Song-Byeok is makes his U.S. debut February 17 in Atlanta and will be visiting various colleges and universities to talk about his experiences and art.
Goat Farm Art Center, Atlanta, GA
GT LiNK President, Daniel Kim and VP Internal, Sam Kim with one of Song-byeok's most famous acrylic paintings.
GT LiNK executive board, Daniel Kim, Sam Kim and Minna Choi made a trip to the Goat Farm Art Center in Atlanta to attend the opening night of Song Byeok's Atlanta debut art exhibition: Departure. Song Byeok is a former North Korean propaganda artist who defected to South Korea in 2002. He now uses his new-found artistic freedom to express ideals of democracy and the fundamental need for freedom for all humans. Song-Byeok is makes his U.S. debut February 17 in Atlanta and will be visiting various colleges and universities to talk about his experiences and art.
Goat Farm Art Center, Atlanta, GA
GT LiNK President, Daniel Kim and VP Internal, Sam Kim with one of Song-byeok's most famous acrylic paintings.
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