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summer programs highlights

  • Seminars on a diverse range of Korea-related topics, including contemporary political history; the reunification movement; north Korean famine relief; international solidarity, labor unions, feminism, and student movements.
  • Nonghwal - an extended farming exposure in the Korean countryside.
  • Visits to important landmarks, such as those associated with the Kwangju People's Uprising.
  • Conversations with student movement leaders.
  • Visits to Min-Joong Tangjaewon, a traditional medicine pharmacy run by former long-term political prisoners.
  • Participation in a famine relief street action.
  • Visits to lesbian gay organizations like Kkiri Kkiri and Dongsungaeja Inkwon Yondae.
  • Visits to progressive media organizations.
  • Meeting activists in human rights organization and newly-emerging citizens rights groups like People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD).
  • Meeting labor organizers from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).
  • Visits to a foreign migrant workers center.
  • Exploration of environmental and urban poor issues.
  • Gonghwal - an extended exposure to working conditions in factories.
  • Visits to Sae Um Tuh, a center that assists and organizes women who work in the sex industry around U.S. military bases.
  • Tours of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which divides north and south Korea.
  • Workshops on traditional poongmul drumming.
  • Participation in unification events around August 15th (Liberation Day).