We have talked about the GivingPoint Institute a lot in the past couple of years. They are a fantastic group, who help young social entrepreneurs (like TNK!) to develop and grow projects that feed a passion. In our case, that passion is human rights. As members of GPI, we have regularly attended workshops featuring high-ranking […]
I’ve been involved with Think North Korea for well over a year. I got involved in October of 2013, with some planning sessions and meetings, and a couple of email chains. I was a freshman, with a little bit of public speaking experience. I just walked up to the then-seniors who were running TNK at […]
A lot of people have been talking about The Interview lately. It’s a particularly controversial movie, and not in the “oh-hey-that’s-a-topic-no-one-talks-about” kind of way. It’s more of a… “LET’S-LAMPOON-DEATH-AND-DESTRUCTION-AND-OH-BY-THE-WAY-THERE-ARE-HUMAN-RIGHTS-AND-SECRET-AGENTS-AND-WHAT-IS-THIS-MOVIE-EVEN-ABOUT-ANYWAY” kind of way. The moviemakers claim to discuss human rights in the film, and that they spread awareness. Having watched it, I think that they actually […]
Yesterday, two North Korean defectors, Park Yeon-Mi, and Joseph Kim, went in front of the UN alongside two members of the State Department’s special envoy for North Korean human rights issues, Robert King and Tom Malinowski. They did this under very specific instructions from the US Secretary of State to put North Korean human rights […]
Hey! I’m Isabel, a Westminster senior and one of Think North Korea’s presidents for the 2014-15 school year. I became involved with TNK last October after watching a presentation by Michael He and Catherine Zhang on the human rights crisis in North Korea. Before then, I hadn’t known much about the crisis (or about North […]
So, North Korea has been in the news more than usual lately, and for (mostly) valid reason. But the media tends to really emphasize some details that are perhaps not so helpful when it comes to human rights crises. So what has actually been happening? Well, North Korea has been in the news more than […]
(I should probably point out that I am not Catherine. My name is Maxxe, and I was a member of Think North Korea last year. I will be running the blog and the Facebook page, as well as the rest of our online presence now, since Catherine is headed off to college soon. She may […]
This past weekend was bittersweet, something that I’d been anticipating for months now. GivingPoint is an organization that Michael and I have been a part of for over a year now, and I cannot describe my gratitude for this program, which has taught me what it means to be a social entrepreneur. Throughout the year, […]
<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/102051605″>Enter Pyongyang</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/jtsingh”>JT Singh</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p> It seems as though it is no longer accurate to simply characterize North Korea as a country completed isolated from the outside world and the technological advancements of the 21st century. “Enter Pyongyang” is a three-minute film using time-lapse, speed control, and animation to portray […]
In your everyday life, you will encounter many people who yell your way and try to persuade you to support their service project. Starving children in Africa, LGBT rights, autistic kids, human trafficking, education; anything you can think of, you know because you’ve read or heard about somehow. At least, that’s been my experience. Of […]
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