Vote for Justice for North Korea

JFNK logoFor the last three years I’ve been an active volunteer with a small group called Justice for North Korea in Seoul.  JFNK currently is one of a dozen and a half NGOs in Korea competing for gift certificates valued at several thousand dollars to be raffled or auctioned off at a fundraising event.

The online voting at 10 Magazine went up late last week and ends Tuesday, December 14th at 11:59 p.m., Korea time (that’s 9:59 a.m. EST on Tuesday).

In a nutshell, JFNK’s mission is to help rescue North Korean refugees in various Asian countries and to raise awareness and action in South Korea (not an easy task).  I wrote some last year about the group here.  Not long thereafter, the L.A. Times did a piece on a rescue mission that we and two other groups were involved with.  We also recently started a program teaching English to defector children and the children of defectors.

We’re an all-volunteer outfit, so this would definitely be a big boost to our fundraising efforts.

And we have a legitimate shot at winning, but as of this writing we’re in second place (out of 17 groups).

Please put us over the top — cast your vote for Justice for North Korea here!

And if you’re so inclined, please encourage your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc. to take 20 seconds to vote.    After all, this really is a contest to see who’s social network is biggest and most responsive….

5 Responses

  1. Thanks everyone for voting. We ended up in 4th place (out of an eventual 18 groups that ended up on the ballot), which was a bit disappointing after leading for the first half of the voting. But we will receive a one-page ad in their magazine sometime next year, and it was a good reminder of how improving our social media presence can have real-world impact. Thanks again.