North Korean Human Rights Symposium in Seoul

Adrian Hong e-mailed this schedule of events for the symposium in Seoul on the 27th (Korean version here):

HUMAN RIGHTS IN NORTH KOREA:
Why are they significant? How can we improve the situation in North Korea?

International Symposium on Human Rights in North Korea
Saturday Nov 27th 9:30–16:30
Yonsei University GSIS(main auditorium)

Registration: LiNKSeoul@gmail.com / 02-732-6710

LiNK (Liberation in North Korea) and Korean Youth United present the International Symposium on Human Rights in North Korea: Engaging University Students and Civil Society. The symposium will include a full day of presentations and panels featuring expert researchers, activists, former North Korean political prisoners and North Korean, South Korean and Korean-American university student leaders.

Speakers will come from the World Citizens’ Organization, Jungto/Good Friends, Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, the North Korea Database Center and the Democracy Network against North Korean Gulag. Honored guests include the Korea Peace Forum.

Schedule of Events:

10:00 am
Opening remarks: Adrian Hong, LiNK
Keynote Speech: Kwaak Young-hoon, peace activist and lead architect, Seoul OlympicVillage, Stadium, DMZ Unipeace City.

11:00-12:30–The Humanitarian and Human Rights Crises in North Korea
Famine: Lee Seung-yong, Good Friends
Refugees: Kim Sang-hun, North Korea Database Center
Political Prison Camps: Kang Chol-hwan, Democracy Network Against North
Korean Gulag

1:30- 3:00–Panel Discussion: Approaches to Resolving the Human Rights Situation in North Korea–How to engage university students and civil society. Moderator:
Korean Youth United

3:00–University students from North Korea, South Korea and the United States present
their current and future activities.

4:00–Special screening of Seoul Train, award-wining documentary film on North
Korean refugees in China

For more information about LiNK:
www.linkglobal.org
www.xanga.com/linkorea
For more information about KYU:
www.kyu.or.kr