LET’S BEGIN🤩🤩
📌Saturday, September 16 📌HEYGROUND Seoul Forest
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Part 1 began with an intro by Ra Yeonu !!📍 In Part 2 we split into small groups📎 In Part 3 we had a time to share our impressions with one another~🖇
Part 1 To understand life as a refugee… we listened to Ra Yeonu’s story~ 📙Ra Yeonu explained why he escaped from Syria! In Syria, where Ra Yeonu was born and had made his home, persecution and discrimination for religious reasons continued without end. Ra Yeonu was himself a victim of such abuses, and he was separated from someone he loved because that person believed in a different sect. At that time, the Korea-Middle East automobile business between Korea and Syria was going smoothly, and Ra Yeonu also took the opportunity to come to Korea, and at the age of 18, without even knowing what a “Refugee Application” was, he became a “refugee” rather than an “immigrant.” He now lives with Korean nationality after succeeding in his naturalization application in 2020, and he wants to let the world know that even if people hold “Korean” nationality legally, there are still people like him who are regarded as “outsiders” in Korean society. Above all, he wants to hear your stories! 💡
Part 2 To come closer to their lives… 📗In Part 2 we held small-group talks!! Among them, we recorded the conversation with Deng Yunbi. In the small-group talk led by Deng Yunbi, we took turns announcing our favorite color, our name and so on. After the self-introductions, Deng Yunbi told us about the person he admires and why, and why he came to Korea. Deng Yunbi introduced a person named “Wei Jingsheng”! Wei Jingsheng was a Chinese democracy activist, a leading figure of China’s Fifth Modernization and democracy movement, and well known internationally. Deng Yunbi said he was greatly inspired by this person and first came to Korea in order to make known to the international community a statement condemning the Chinese regime. But the process was not at all easy, and as a result he stays in Korea and carries out the “Chinese democracy movement” from Korea.
Part 3 To become one ! 📫In Part 3, communication went back and forth between the speakers and the participants!! Shall we take a quick look?? 🧸 📕Participant: Majun, are you engaged in any political activity?? 📘Majun: I always try to be active, and my Facebook page is well known. I write about people who have been detained and receive messages from them. 📕Participant: What image of Egypt do you think Koreans have? 📙Shaima: Every time I tell people in Korea that I am Egyptian, there is something they say. The pyramids! But many people do not know about the political situation, sadly. I think we have to keep raising our voices as we did today. People in Egypt cannot raise voices like this.
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