정모주제 8.29 Friday Mr Hong & North Asylum's story

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Coming out changed my life 

www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2008/07/201_27087.html posted by Jennifer

     Actor Hong Suk Chun is a strog man. He is strong not only because he came out of the closet 8 years ago when there was nobody to support him, let alone understand, but because he has lived his life to the fullest ever since. "There were times when it was so hard that I just wanted to give up everything. living as the only one (to come out) in this business is hard. harder than you can ever imagine" He told the korean times during an interview at his restaurant  "our place " Hong 37, recently finished hosting a cable television program "Coming out" Hong worked as a mentor, giving advice and supporting young homesexuals. He currently runs three restauants, "our place" "my tie" and "my china" and a bar "my soul bar" as well as an online shopping mall and has even appeared in several musicals. He is also preparing to publish a new book.

1. In 2002 when he came out of the closet, what was your first thought about it & has it ever changed? What do you think about homosexual in general? 

2. Let's suppose that your only son or daughter confessed own homosexual preferences, what would you do? Would you accept it or will you try to convince them to change it? 

3. What do you think about Mr Hong's commenets? What was the hardest time in your life & how did you overcome?  

4.  If  you are a homesexual like 하리수 or 홍석천, can you come out of the closet? Then, what will you do if you are invited couple's only party where you are required to bring your partner/spouse? 

5. Which gender do you prefer for yourself? If you would are born again, whould you like to stay same or chenge to different gender?

N.Korean asylum in US http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200807/200807230013.html

     A North Korean refugee in Russia has been given asylum in the U.S. Having gained approval of both the Russian and U.S. governments, Han Dong-man, who had been a logger in Siberia, left for the U.S. on Tuesday afternoon. He has been under protection of the Moscow Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees since October last year. He is the first North Korean defector to find asylum in the U.S. from Russia, which has refused to recognize North Korean defectors as refugees and approve their seeking of asylum to the U.S. for fear of harming diplomatic ties with the North. Han is reportedly to settle near Los Angeles.

North Korean refugee Han Dong-man, who was allowed by the Russian government to take asylum in the U.S.

       From Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, Han came to Russia in 1993 to work at a North Korean logging camp in Tynda. But he escaped from the camp in 1998 because the North Korean government failed to pay his wages and has since then tried to go to South Korea or a third country. North Korea exports workers to Russia under a forestry agreement established between the two in 1958. Some 20,000 North Korean loggers are reportedly working in Siberia. In a telephone interview, Han said he decided to go to the U.S. because he was told by the Korean embassy that the South Korean government no longer gives resettlement stipends to those who fled the North more than 10 years ago. South Korea’s Act on the Protection and Settlement Support of Residents Escaping from North Korea stipulates that North Korean refugees who have been in a third country for more than 10 years can be exempted from government assistance. The case has raised hopes of human rights organizations home and abroad working for North Korean refugees that Russia is capable of showing generosity when it makes decisions about North Korean refugees, even if its principles have not changed. “Some 500 North Korean refugees who escaped from North Korean logging camps are waiting for their turn to be sent to South Korea or a third country in major Russian cities including Moscow and Novosibirsk,” said the Rev. Cheon Ki-won of Durihana Mission. “Something urgently needs to be done for them.”

1.  What is your personal perspective on North Korea and their people? What is your initial impression on them?

2.  Have you heard about female North Korean spy case? Which do you care more between national security or brotherhood for North Korean?

3.  What do you think about  Mr Han's decision to apply for US asylum not to South Korea or Japan? Can we provide any support and embrace them as one of our own?

4.  Have you ever met any North Korean escapee? What if you are asked to pair up with one of them and supposed to help them to intioduce to the Korean society, what do you want to do first?

5.  What do you think about the matter of reunification? Do we really need it? If so, when and what do you want to see about it? 

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