A great thing about having an office? You have a place to invite guests to meet you.
A bad thing about having an office? I don't want to go out to meet other people.
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During a particularly unstable time in TNKR's history, I was shuttling between the Freedom Factory office near the National Assembly and the temporary TNKR office near Itaewon Station. Some days, I would start the day at Freedom Factory, head over to Itaewon, then go back to Freedom Factory.
Now we have our own office. There are some days that I don't leave the office and have even slept at the office so I could get to work when I wake up. When I go out, it feels like I have been in a cave, but caveman style like that feeling of playing my favorite video games for weeks. It is more difficult to get me out for meetings these days.
But today, I did go out for a meeting.
Today we met the Mayor of Mapo-gu, he wanted to hear about TNKR. Apparently someone at the mayor's office got into trouble because the mayor found out that there is an incredible organization in his district that is being run by volunteers helping North Korean refugees. A staffer rushed to collect news clips about TNKR. They clearly had done their research about us.
We moved into the area July 2016, so it only took them seven months to find us.
Apparently the mayor was like, "What? This is happening in my backyard, and no one told me about it? What the hey?"
Well, those probably weren't the mayor's exact words, but anyway, he now knows TNKR.
After the meeting with the mayor, we talked in more detail with one of the staff members. I don't expect that anything will ever come out of the meeting.
