Introducing our Country panel speakers:
SOUTH KOREA: Youngah Kim, Founder and Executive Director of the Migration to Asia Peace (MAP)
Youngah Kim has been devoting to refugee protection in the Republic of Korea since 2013, the year when the domestic refugee law came into effect. She founded the Migration to Asia Peace (MAP) in 2015. Under her leadership, the MAP has provided refugees and asylum seekers with services such as counselling, translation/interpretation, information distribution, and case management.
The MAP also launched a project Human Library with Refugees to raise public awareness and address prejudices. The areas of advocacy she is interested in are refugee health right, family unification, child protection, refugee representation, and labour rights. She studied International development cooperation/conflict resolution studies for MA at University for Peace. She majored in International relations and Political science at University of Toronto.