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2015-12-29 Radio Free Asia report about FSI's English Speech Contest

 



2015-12-29 Radio Free Asia report on English Speech Contest 

Here's an article by Radio Free Asia seven years ago on this day. At that time, Eunkoo and I had jobs elsewhere so FSI was a part-time hobby that was taking over our lives. FSI wasn't an official organization yet, that wouldn't happen until July 2016. 

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In late 2014, we held several meetings with North Korean refugees to talk about starting a public speaking program and holding an English speech contest. We started with an annual contest, but because of the enthusiastic response from refugee participants, we decided to hold the contest twice a year after we got a sponsor. 

Here's the 2015-12-29 Radio Free Asia article in Korean. https://www.rfa.org/korean/in_focus/human_rights_defector/speechcontest-12292015145252.html 

Two South Korean volunteers translated the RFA article into English. It was great to see the positive comment from Sungju Lee, who later published Every Falling Star. This article is a great reminder of how far we have come from our early days as a fly-by-night group to now being an organization with official status in the USA and South Korea.









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