by kace
Congressman Eni Faleomavaega , who is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on Natural Resources, released a statement that was recorded as a congressional record on July 28th. The statement urged the Japanese government to comply with House Resolution 121 that was passed three years ago by making…
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On Thursday, July 29th, Kathleen Donovan, the Bergen County Clerk visited the New Jersey office of Korean Voters’ Center and spent time with the interns. On this day, the interns were able to ask questions to Kathleen Donovan about local government and administration works. The New Jersey office’s intern coordinator, Brian…
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On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, the 2010 KAVC summer interns had a chance to meet with Cha, In-Pyo who is a famous actor in Korea at the office in New Jersey. On this day, the interns and Cha, In-Pyo were able to discuss the summer intern program, and had time to discuss their impressions and…
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On July 26, 2010, Korean American Voters Council’s 2010 summer internships visited Washington D.C. and obtained appointments from the House of Foreign Affairs Committee for subsequent actions of the Japanese Comfort Women resolution that was passed on July 30, 2007. This day’s trip is a part of the Korean American Voters’ Council’s summer…
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On July 20th, Korean American Voters’ Council and Korean American Association of Fort Lee held the Naturalization Service in New Jersey. The 2010 interns came up with the incentive to prepare the service when they saw that many Koreans did not have citizenship and wanted help in their naturalization process, during the voter registration drives. 19…
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On July 18th, Korean American Voters’ Council interns and volunteers held a voter registration drive and voting participating campaign in Church of the Lord in New Jersey. Whereas most first generation Korean Americans actively participated in the voter registration, Korean Americans youths 18 years old or older did not feel that they needed to. Also, many held a misconception that they would…
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The KAVC 2010 interns attended a City Hall hearing scheduled at 9:30 AM on Thursday July 15, 2010. Coordinators Chejin Park, Andrew Choi and interns Hyung Seok (Brian) Lee, Changmin Lee, Michelle Kim, Yoonsun Na, Sung Kyu (Robert) Park, Eun Bee (Gloria )Yun, and Jihyung Kim arrived at the 250 Broadway structure to attend the…
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On July 12th, Gwon, Hyuk Jae (Sung gyun Gwan University) is going back to Korea after completing internship program at Korean American Voter’s Council. Gwon Hyuk Jae accomplished internship program amazingly, and received Gold community service award given by the president, Obama. That day, all the students who have been participating in internship program stood…
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On July 8th, the New Jersey interns, who participated in the Korean American voters’ council, visited Bergen county’s Board of Election. Over the past two weeks, they collected 80 new voter registrations which was submitted to the Bergen county’s superintendent of elections, Patricia Di Constanzo. Also that day, participating interns toured Bergen county’s Board…
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On July 2nd, 2010, the KAVC interns held the new voting machine education outleach for The Korean American Senior Citizens’ Association of New York at Staten Island. The outleach aimed to demonstrate the new ballot machine to senior citizens. All the seniors had a chance to operate the new machine with interns’ aid. …