Skip to main content

TNKR is seeking a full-time paid Academic Coordinator

Help Wanted: The Teach North Korean Refugees Global Education Center (TNKR) is seeking a full-time Academic Coordinator.
Main responsibilities:

* Manage the organization's main three programs
Track 2, Speech Coaching

* Handle the recruitment process for volunteers applying to TNKR.

* Lead one orientation session and one Language Matching session per month.

* Monitor the program by working with volunteer tutors, coaches and mentors studying with North Korean refugees.

* Continuously update the program to fit the needs of North Korean refugee students as a priority and keeping it as flexible and rewarding as possible for volunteers.

*****

Requirements and Expectations:

* Minimum one year commitment.
* Able to be legally paid in South Korea with your current valid visa that you confirm through immigration (or that you are a South Korean citizen).
* Available to work during office hours at the TNKR office near Sangsu Station, and occasional weekends.
* Respect the privacy of North Korean refugees.
* Be a team player able to adapt to rapid changes based on the needs of the students.
* Detail-oriented.
* Help develop a more robust program.
* Keep operations transparent and keep the organization's directors updated.
* English-only immersion program. Bilingual speakers are certainly welcome to apply, but must understand and agree this is an English-only program.
* Understand this position is not to be used for research purposes, hanging out with refugees, or socializing with volunteers.

*****

Expected working hours: M-F 11 am to 6 pm with some occasional weekends.

Location: TNKR is located about a 2 minute walk from the Sangsu Subway Station (line 6, exit 4).

Contact: Email TNKR co-founder Eunkoo Lee at Eunkoo21@hanmail.net with salary expectations.

Experience: Previous teaching experience is preferred, but not required.

Support: We can't help with visas, airfare, relocation expenses.
Learn more about TNKR: 






Popular posts from this blog

Common Sense on North Korea (Korea Times, April 2, 2012)

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. As interesting as Kookmin University professor Andrei Lankov’s writings are, there is nothing quite like attending one of his lectures. He can barely restrain himself behind the podium, often pointing and waving his arms. I also enjoy his unscripted speeches, but his answers in Q&A sessions are like the difference between watching Michael Jordan shoot baskets in warm-ups and an actual game. I have finally discovered the secret behind Lankov’s consistently solid analysis about North Korea: Use common sense. At an Asan Institute conference last summer, he argued that North Korea watchers should try to understand North Korea from its perspective. Don’t most people know that you must understand the mindset of others you are dealing with? Yet, common sense in theory gets ignored politically. From the North Korean perspective, nuclear weapons are the best thing they’ve got going. They will NOT give them up easily, even if President Obama ...
Read more

Rich talking back

The rich are talked about very often in negative terms, but how often do the rich respond in kind? Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart, who inherited most of her money but apparently has also done very well with it, recently railed against class warfare and had some advice for the non-rich : "There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire," she writes. "If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself - spend less time drinking, or smoking and socializing and more time working."   She complained about politicians raising taxes, regulations that slow investment, and other anti-business policies that harm the poor. "If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvenstment and businesses welcome."
Read more

Random photos from today

I went walking around today. Whereas some people like to go walking in the mountains, I enjoy walking around in the city. Well, not D.C. or other cities with many homeless, crazy and/or armed people walking around... * * * Here's where I had lunch today. About $1.90 for a hamburger hamberger.   * * * Ha-ha! Bet you never would have guessed that Batman is a drinking place in Korea! * * * Man Clinic? The Koreans walking by seemed to be very curious about why I was taking a photo of a "Man Clinic." They may know something I don't know...Actually, I wasn't curious enough to go in and find out what it was... * * * Right down the street from the Man Clinic...there's a Love Shop! I love the euphemism. "Love Shop" sounds much better than Sex Shop. I'm guessing that if you don't go to the "Love Shop" to buy condoms that you may need to visit the Man Clinic a short time later? * * * Nobo...
Read more

To be a good volunteer, use your brain (Korea Times, December 5, 2012)

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. There is probably an unwritten rule that a celebrity offering to do volunteer work for a good cause should immediately be embraced. Well, that’s not what happened to Jeong So-dam, the glamorous Korean cable TV announcer when our paths crossed on Nov. 29. Ms. Jeong was the MC of an event about American political philosophy hosted by the Association for Economic Evolution. During my speech about American libertarianism since 1940, I discussed my volunteer work for North Korean refugees. After the speech, Jeong approached me, asking how she could help. I gave her the same tough love I give to potential volunteers by asking: “Who are you?” After all, if you are Bill Gates, then open your wallet. If you speak four languages, then help with translation work. So I first stress to potential volunteers: Use your brain. Tell us about your skills and interests so together we can figure out your initial role.  Jeong was good-natured about it, rather than c...
Read more

Last weekend: Suicide, Kim Young Ha, NK

Credit: Joanne Cho Event 1: Friday night I went to a talk given by Fulbright junior researcher Joanne Cho. She did a great job putting together statistics about some of the most commonly cited reasons that so many Koreans commit suicide. Probably the most provocative tidbit: Cho watched 86 dramas from the spring of 2012 to now, she says that 63 had "scenes depicting or discussing suicide" in a favorable light (as a way to solve problems, that troubled people can be forgiven for their sins and are even seen as sympathetic).  Another interesting tidbit: While it is often cited that Korea is number one in the world in suicide (among countries reporting reliable statistics), what I had not realized or had forgotten is that Korean men are number 8 in the world compared to men in other countries with reliable statistics, Korean women are #1 in the world when compared to women in other countries. My questions for the speaker: 1) What was a finding in your research th...
Read more