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2019-12-23 Back at the office!

* Korea Times bloggers' luncheon
* Street interview
* Minwoo's donation
* Mentoring
* Eye Contact


Early morning

I got to the office early, I have a long to-do list, and many people keep reminding me about things I need to do.

Korea Times Bloggers' luncheon

I skipped out early for lunch. Unfortunately, my suit wasn't ready, so I went dressed as I was--a walking advertisement for Harvard University. Because of so much going on, I took a bit of a break from blogging.




Street interview

One of the reporters asked me for an interview right after lunch. At first I declined, knowing I wasn't dressed professionally. But then decided, "What the hell?" So I did it, and enjoyed it! I thought to interview her for my blog, but I knew I had meetings waiting for me at the office.




Seoul Pub Crawl

What's your TNKR Membership level? Minwoo Kim is now a TNKR Patron!

In the last three years, the Seoul Pub Crawl has raised more than 2 million won for TNKR!

Today Minwoo donated 737,000 won ($635 USD) to TNKR from the Seoul Pub Crawl's recent event.

It will support TNKR's new project for hiring North Korean refugee interns in the office, so it means we have enough funding for the first month! https://give.lovetnkr.com/en/NK-internsTNKR 

Membership https://lovetnkr.org/members/





Mentoring

Now that TNKR is in less danger of collapsing, I am focusing on a few projects and activities I have had in mind. One is that a number of North Korean refugees studying in TNKR have asked me to mentor them. I had many reasons to hold off on embracing this, but for a variety of reasons I have decided to take this on during 2020.

Today we met with a North Korean refugee for almost 2 hours discussing and assisting with her future plans.


Eye Contact

Tonight from 9:50 PM, I will be a prop for a feature on a North Korean refugee in TNKR. I won't be watching it, but hopefully friends and others will tell me good things about it. :-)


Interview with me (English)
Eye Contact scene (English and Korean)

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