KBS has a weekly 15 minute show called "Sharing Happiness, Donations." Yesterday they featured (TNKR) Teach North Korean Refugees for one of those 15 minutes!
I have attached some screenshots, and have a 2021 update below the photos.
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2021 update below the photos:
1) It appears that the show is off the air. The archive only goes back to 2018 (of course, their links could have changed or they could have renamed the show, etc.).
Whatever, it does remind me that when KBS came to us in 2016, we were shuttling between using office space of two other organizations at that time. We were trying to settle down into becoming an official organization. One of the KBS reporters asked me what I thought TNKR was going to be doing five years later. That is a question a lot of reporters and allegedly smart people like to ask.
Could the reporter who asked that question five years ago have imagined:
* KBS Sharing Happiness, Donations show would itself be off the air two years later.
* That we would form TNKR into an official organization.
* Five months later, we would move into our own office (in February 2016, that seemed like a long-shot).
* Four years later, we would move into a slightly larger office (that happened in early 2020, but even in late 2019 we weren't sure).
* That five years later, we would have changed our organization's name, from TNKR to FSI.
* Our mission would have flipped a bit, to focus more on public speaking.
Reporters and allegedly-smart people often ask me what I think the future holds for this organization, I occasionally them what they think the future holds for their organization or media outlet. For a while, I would answer, "If you saw me out pushing a car, would you ask me how far I intended to go?"
2) By the way, I don't recall that we received a single donation because of this KBS show, it wouldn't be until later in the year when we were featured on TVN that we received donations because of media (and I'm not complaining, just making a point I have learned that some people wrongly assume that TV coverage=donations). I love the concept of the show and wish the show had been longer than 15 minutes, and that our "feature" would have been longer than 1 minute.
3) I don't work for KBS, I can only share the links they shared with us five years ago. And if I am right that the show is off the air, they may not work for KBS or may be working on a different show.
Here's what they sent five years ago: http://www.kbs.co.kr/1tv/sisa/donate/view/vod/index.html?searchStatus=0&articleIndex=0&vosample=¤tUrl=http://www.kbs.co.kr/1tv/sisa/donate/view/vod/index.html (you may need to search the archive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbaPMOBr08o&index=1&list=PL-6_xImxyTAJw3qeFJBXFv6fSCFEOb9eG or the new Freedom Speakers International YouTube channel.