Pastor Chun Ki Won in Boston

Pastor Chun Ki Won is one of the most famous activists in the underground railroad that smuggles North Korean refugees from China to freedom in South Korea.  He is the founder of the Durihana mission which has helped over 700 North Koreans escape.

On Wednesday, October 21 at 4:30 PM Pastor Chun will be speaking at Wellesley College at the Pendleton Atrium.  On Thursday, October 22 at 5:15 PM Pastor Chun will be speaking at Boston College Law School.  I encourage all of you in the area to attend this event.

And if you cannot make it I suggest watching the Seoul Train documentary where Pastor Chun is one of the heroes or the PBS Wide Lens video interview which I show above.

Update 2009-10-26: Here is an article about Pastor Chun Ki Won’s talk.

Looking For Refuge: Pastor Chun Ki Won and the North Korean Human Rights Crisis

Thursday, October 22, 2009
5:15-7 P.M.
Boston College Law School, Newton, MA
East Wing 115A&B

One of the primary figures in North Korean refugee work over the last ten years, Pastor Chun Ki Won has endured North Korean prisons, helped hundreds of North Korean refugees escape, and built a network of orphanages and shelters in China, Cambodia, Thailand, and Mongolia.

We hope you will join us in learning about the prevailing human rights issues that exist today in North Korea and the Chinese borders.  Pastor Chun will address:

• Issues surrounding the capture of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two American journalists who were recently released from North Korea, and its political and humanitarian ramifications;
• The lack of discussion regarding negotiations between the United States and North Korea and why this is so;
• Opportunities for students and young professionals in this field.

There will also be a brief showing of the award-winning 2005 documentary, “Seoul Train,” which follows the dangerous journeys of North Korean defectors fleeing through or to China.  The event will close with a Q&A session.

Light refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored by:

Boston College Law School’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), Christian Legal Society, Holocaust/Human Rights Project, and Amnesty International; Boston College’s Korean Students’ Association;Boston University Law School’s APALSA; Harvard University Law School’s APALSA.