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.

4th General Meeting: February 15, 2012

February 15, 2012
During our 4th general meeting, GT LiNK began preparations for the lecture by Song-Byeok on February 23. Members signed up for advertising, set-up and clean-up of the event. The members then split into three teams to tackle chalking at the student center and CULC.


GT LiNK members, Taejin Kim and Jamison Go chalking at CULC


GT LiNK member, Cathy Nguyen hard at work chalking for Song-byeok's upcoming lecture


GT LiNK VP External, Minna Choi chalking at CULC.


GT LiNK officers, Joan Chung, Grace Oh and Daniel Kim with GT LiNK member Teyana Gainey chalking in front of CULC.




Please come see Song-byeok speak about his experiences and art on Thursday, Feb 23, 2012!




Check out the presentation below for announcements from the meeting:

Valentine's Fundraiser

February 13 + February 14, 2012
Thank you to all our hard-working officers and members who helped make our first ever Valentine's Fundraiser such a success! It wouldn't have been possible without your help!
We sold approximately 300 cake-pops, 30 cookie pops and 21 chocolate boxes to raise $390! Thank you to all of our supporters!


Our Valentine's Cake-pops (only $1 each!) in three flavors: strawberry, chocolate and vanilla.


Strawberry cake-pops


Chocolate Cake-pops


Cookie pops for $1!

February 11, 2012: Dinner and Lecture with National Unification Council- Atlanta Chapter

February 11, 2012
Amidst preparing for the Valentine's day fundraiser, GT LiNK had the opportunity to attend a dinner and lecture hosted by the Atlanta Chapter of the National Unification Council. The dinner featured keynote speaker, Dr. Lutz Goergens, of the Atlanta General Consulate of Germany, who spoke on the 20 years reunification history of East and West Germany. Hopefully, we can learn from history to find a means of preparing for a peaceful reunification of the Koreas.





Dr. Lutz Goergens speaking on the history of reunification of East and West Germany.


Dr.Lutz Georgens with GT LiNK president, Daniel Kim and VP External, Minna Choi.

February 11: Baking for Valentine's Fundraiser

February 11, 2012
GT Officers headed to Maulding common room to bake, decorate and package 300 cake-pops starting from noon on Saturday, Feb 11, 2012.
Special thanks to Grace Oh, Sam Kim, Hyeji Park, Chelsey Shin, Daniel Kim, Minna Choi, Kyoung-chan Kwak, Joan Chung, Cathy Nguyen, and Brian Biggs who helped on Saturday. We began at noon and finished at 3am. Great work guys and thank you so much for giving up your Saturday to help out!
We ended up with 300 cake-pops and 30 cookie pops to be sold on Monday and Tuesday!


Our VP Internal Sam working hard to prepare cake-pops for dipping.


VP Internal Sam Kim and Secretary Grace Oh setting up shop from noon.

Blank canvases ready to be decorated.




cake-pop taste-tested and approved by our President


GT LiNK member Cathy Nguyen hard at work decorating cake-pops~


GT LiNK member, Brian Biggs, helping decorate cake-pops along with Sam Kim. Kyoung-chan working hard to coat the cake-pops.




Ready for packaging~


LiNK officers, Joan Chung and Chelsey Shin, working til early morning to decorate cake-pops.


LiNK officer, Hyeji Park and Daniel Kim coating the last batch of cake-pops.








packaged cake-pops, ready to sell :)


our container of 300 cake-pops...

February 7, 2012: 3rd GM

February 7, 2012
GT LiNK held its 3rd general meeting at IC Rm 209. We split into two teams with Chelsey and Hyeji's committee heading preparations for the Valentine's Day fundraiser and with Kyoung-chan and Joan's committee planning for the upcoming Feb 23 lecture by Song-Byeok.
We held sign-ups with plans to bake on Saturday from noon- 7 pm and to sell cake-pops on Monday from 1-4 pm and Tuesday from 1-3 pm at the student center.
Please check out the presentation below for additional announcements:

2nd GM Meeting

Jan 31, 2012
As January came to a close, GT LiNK had its 2nd general meeting where we got busy preparing for all of our upcoming February events.
General members watched an informational video about artist, Song Byeok, a former North Korean propagandist who now uses his artistic talent to satirize the regime. He will be coming to Georgia Tech on February 23 to lecture about his artwork and life as a North Korean refugee.
We also implemented our new team system! Team 1, led by Chelsey got a head-start on planning for our Valentine's Day fundraiser. Team 2, led by Kyoung-chan, began planning for advertising and logistics of the lecture by Song Byeok.

Check out the presentation below for other announcements: