I'm participating in a half marathon in Seoul on June 14 to raise money for an NGO that assists North Korean refugees leave (escape is a better word) China. Such defectors have already made the decision to leave North Korea and then find themselves pretty much in no-man's land in China where they face deportation back to North Korea if found. If interested, I've provided more information on the fundraising site:
Slight Brian Tyler connection. The NGO I volunteer for - seperate from the one I'm hoping to raise money for above - just got a plug on Al Jazeera. At the 36 second mark, you can see a refugee reading a review of Furious 7 to help with her English^
I haven't been keeping up with Al Jazeera's rep. I thought it was a pretty respected news site. Would be curious to learn more about what sparked the Nazi comment. I know some pretty respected Australian journalists have started working for them. Were you referring to its owner, the Qatar government?
There were other reporters at the event, which was held last Tuesday and organised by the British Embassy, so I think more reports are expected. Al J just happened to be the first. The article in the South Korean press was published by a media company I'm pretty sure cannot be likened to the Nazis. but anyway, the content is the main thing. What did you think of the report itself? The NGO itself is quite sound and has a great rep in the NK defector community.
Speaking of the Nazis, the girl at the end of the report grew up near one of the concentration camps. She's one of the defectors I was assigned to help. It's quite a thing to sit with a young woman over a coffee and hear tales about that camp and the coal mine she worked in for 12-15 hours a day. Her grandfather was one of the 60,000 South Korean POWs the North "kept" after the Korean War, so her chances of really making it in that society were dim from the start.
