Join us at the 20th Annual Korean DANO Spring Festival!
Hey everyone! We wanted to let you know that we will be at the Korean DANO Spring festival this weekend, June 1st & 2nd. The festival is located in Korea Town at Christie Pitts Park. Admission is free and the festival will feature Korean food, traditional dance and music, Korean Pop, arts & crafts, Taekwondo demonstrations, [...]
Why and how do North Koreans defect?
A friend of mine last week asked me why and how do North Koreans defect. I answered him and thought that it was worth sharing with everyone else. Here’s what I wrote. How do North Korean defectors leave North Korea? Most of them cross one of two rivers (Tumen or Yalu Rivers) between North Korea [...]
Why North Korea?
Hi everyone! I suppose I should introduce myself here, as I had not in my previous post. My name is Michelle and I am the co-director of NKHRFF. I have decided to write this week’s blog post about how I became interested in North Korean human rights – because it is the question I get [...]
Awareness
Anyone who knows me knows that I talk a lot. I’m always talking. It can be really annoying sometimes, I’m sure. After I learned about the horrible history of North Korea, about the life there today, I continued talking – that didn’t change – but I felt compelled to talk about the situation there. I [...]
The Meaning Behind NKHRFF Campaign
So some of you may be wondering what the message is behind our campaign posters. The poster you see here can have a lot of different meanings and interpretations, but I will tell you what it means to me. The people of North Korea live in a country that is shut off from the rest [...]
Help Us Launch NKHRFF
Hi everyone, I can’t say this often enough but thank you so much to everyone who is supporting our film festival. Without you spreading the word about North Korea and our film festival as well as attending our events, we would be doing all of this for nothing. So to everyone — thank you! We [...]
NKHRFF Reaches North Korea
On April 19th, 2012, we held our first official event where we screened LiNK‘s powerful documentary, The People’s Crisis. Not only did we fill the theatre to capacity by the end of the event, but more importantly, we got to spread awareness to more than 200 people at once. Thank you so much Toronto for [...]