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Jon Thyng
Wichita, Kansas
Cable Company: Cox Communications

3/18/04: WASHINGTON, DC

One night on television I came across a group of Koreans sitting on a panel on C-SPAN. There were large posters of Korean children in poverty behind the panel and the facial expressions of the panel members depicted a sense of sorrow.

The event discussed the role of a non-profit organization called Helping Hands Korea and what it was doing about the North Korean refugee crisis in China. The different speakers explained the current situation in China and the obstacles they face in saving the refugees.

A panel of North Korean refugees who survived the ordeal shared their experience through a translator. The translator wasn�t effective in expressing their horrors and pain but I was able to understand the speakers because I am a Korean-American myself. Their stories brought me to tears of sympathy and anger.

The event concludes with a U.S. Senator as the final guest speaker to address this issue and the actions he would take with the Chinese government. Ignorant of politics, I was taken aback when I realized that the Senator represented my own state of Kansas, Senator Sam Brownback.

This program by C-SPAN shaped my life from a business major to a political science and economics double major with a focus on international studies. I have interned for the Senator and I have personally met him often. I am currently on his Asian-American steering committee for his reelection in 2004. I am aspiring to work in foreign relations for the U.S. State department.


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