Giving Back to the Daily NK: Amplify the North Korea Info Flow

The Daily NK has provided us North Korea watchers for the last 8.5 years with big scoops like the currency “reform” of late 2009 and lots of smaller stories that further our understanding of everyday life in North Korea.

Last month they launched their outreach campaign to the international community with a Nightout and a Meetup in Seoul, and this month they’re doing their first crowdsourcing campaign (click image above).

Traditionally, charitable giving was not practiced in Korean society. As such the Daily NK and other NGOs/non-profits in Seoul rarely have attempted (and are often even skeptical of) grassroots funding appeals that we in the West are quite used to and have come to expect. So booya to the Daily NK for venturing out into unknown territory, here’s hoping it’s a wild success!

Yes, as you may have suspected, that’s where we all come in — if you’ve benefited from reading Daily NK articles over the years (One Free Korea has linked to them hundreds of times, I’ve been guilty of it myself even), please check out their appeal and consider chipping in the cost of a few cups of coffee toward improving their website’s design & security.

While they receive funding from NED, it’s still a bare-bones operation and will certainly make the most of our contributions. Their reporting often gets picked up and passed on by much, much bigger news outlets — the New York Times, the Economist, etc.

Note, not sure of the time and the hour of Joshua’s hopefully imminent return, but this is not he. To avoid confusion I will sign my name to posts until he can modify his template to include the author field on posts.

PS, thanks to Adam for reminding me to get this up.