by Alex Melton | April 27th, 2013 | 07:00 am
We pass along the following information from our friends at the North Korea Freedom Coalition. Have a look at the upcoming events and attend if you are able. ____ Dear Friends: While the world watches for a possible nuclear missile test by North Korea in the coming days and the Kim Jong Eun regime increases [...]
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by Alex Melton | March 30th, 2013 | 07:00 am
We pass along the following information from our friends at the North Korea Freedom Coalition. Have a look at the upcoming events and attend if you are able. —– Please see below some upcoming events regarding North Korea’s freedom and human rights, but first a special request regarding this year’s North Korea Freedom Week 2013: We hope that everyone [...]
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by Alex Melton | March 23rd, 2013 | 07:00 am
We pass along information on the following as a courtesy to our friends the North Korea Freedom Coalition and NKUS, an organization of North Korean refugees in the United States. The concert, featuring North Korean defector and pianist Kim Cheol Woong, will take place this Sunday just outside of Washington in Burke Virginia. Be sure to [...]
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by Alex Melton | March 17th, 2013 | 07:00 am
We pass along the following information from our friend Christopher Richardson at the University of Sydney. Christopher and colleagues from several other universities in Australia as well as Japan have organized a North Korean film festival to be held on the 21st and 22nd of March. Click on the images below for more details or [...]
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by Alex Melton | February 19th, 2013 | 06:40 am
Tonight at 7pm ET, Reddit will be hosting an Ask Me Anything discussion with a North Korean defector. Below is a copy of the announcement from LiNK who are co-hosting the discussion. —- (To join the 2/19 7pm EST Reddit AMA chat with a North Korean defector, go here (note: you will need a Reddit login [...]
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by Alex Melton | February 10th, 2013 | 07:00 am
We pass along the following information about the upcoming North Korea Freedom Week as a courtesy to our friends at the North Korea Freedom Coalition. The details, courtesy of Suzanne Scholte. —– Many of you have asked about the dates for North Korea Freedom, and I am pleased to announce that the 10th annual North [...]
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by Alex Melton | October 7th, 2012 | 07:00 am
We pass along details about the following event as a courtesy to our friends at The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, The Simon Wiesenthal Center & Liberty in North Korea (LiNK). — The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), The Simon Wiesenthal Center & Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) present North Korea’s Political [...]
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by Stephan Haggard | September 22nd, 2012 | 07:00 am
For those living in Southern California, UC Irvine is staging an exhibition of South Korean political art that looks like it is worth a visit. Following the Kwangju massacre, an important group of Korean artists—most born in the immediate post-war period—turned against Korean modernism by developing a dynamic, political; Youngwoo Lee offers a good introduction [...]
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by Stephan Haggard | September 9th, 2012 | 07:00 am
For anyone in New York, the Korea Society is hosting an exhibition of early realist South Korean photography entitled Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes 1945-1992. The photographs are on loan from one of the first public photography museums in Korea, Dong-Gang Museum of Photography, and from several of the photographers (or their estates) [...]
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by Alex Melton | July 7th, 2012 | 07:00 am
We pass along the following information about upcoming events in the Washington DC area as a courtesy to our friends at The North Korea Freedom Coalition, The Korean Church Coalition for North Korea Freedom, and The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea: Dear Friends: There are a number of exciting events coming up in July [...]
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