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The Sparks event: A year later
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 […]
Looking Back on More Than a Year With TNK
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 […]
Some Thoughts on The Interview (Movie)
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 […]
The UN’s Agenda Finally Includes the North Korean Prison Camps
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 […]
TNK Takes the Alternative Gift Fair 2014 (Post by Isabel Gupton)
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 […]
A Lot Has Happened in North Korea, Including Some Good News
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 […]
GivingPoint’s Sparks Event: Going Out With A Bang
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, […]
Why North Korea?
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 […]
TNK hosts discussion at Lovett
Hello! My name is Maxxe. I presented with Think North Korea (affiliated with the larger group, Liberty in North Korea) at the Lovett School on Monday. The experience was eye opening, to say the least. I got interested in TNK when they presented for our school. I happened to be one of few in the […]
Workshop at Coke Headquarters: Thursday, February 20
On Thursday, Michael and I went to a branding workshop. At the Coke headquarters on GA Tech campus, this workshop was one that I’d looked forward to the entire year. Coca-Cola, the most recognized brand in the world, has tremendous experience with tailoring ads and campaigns to compel customers to 1. buy their products and […]
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