Celebrating 30 Years of Idealist! Discover where weโ€™ve been, and where weโ€™re going.
Nonprofit

Free NK

London, ENG, United Kingdom
|
ifreenk.com/

  • About Us

    FreeNK is a non-religious non-for profit non-govermental organisation based in New Malden, London in the UK and run by North Korean refugees.

    FreeNK has its roots in the โ€˜North Korean Residents Society in UKโ€™ and was established in May 2005 to let the world know about the most egregious human rights abuses that are happening in North Korea and to inform citizens inside North Korea of the outside worldโ€™s news, to which they are denied by the state, and therefore guarantee their rights of freedom.

    On June the 15th 2011 FreeNK separated itself from the โ€˜North Korean Residents Society in UKโ€™ as an NGO dedicated to the improvement of human rights in North Korea and established our own online news website.

    After 2 years, on July the 8th 2013, in commemoration of the 19th anniversary of the death of Kim-Il Sung, the patriarchal dictator of North Korea, FreeNK published its first newspaper.

    Our newspaper is now published in both English and Korean on a fortnightly basis. We aim to help North Koreans realise their freedom through democratisation and inform the world of the plight of North Korean citizens and abuses by the North Korean regime. Our newspaper aims to provide North Koreans with outside Western news to which they are denied while both our website and newspaper inform Westerners of the atrocities within North Korea. Moreover both of our media outlets keep North Korean defectors living in Europe informed of news from their homeland.

    We also participate in, and organise, local and international events with other NGOs and charities to help achieve the democratisation of North Korea. Furthermore we work together with the 2,000 North Korean defectors living in Europe and through empowering and educating the largest group of North Koreans outside of the Korean Peninsula intend to ensure the freedom of North Korean civilians.

    Finally we educate and empower North Korean migrants to ensure real change within North Korea and the democratisation of the Korean peninsula.

    ํ”„๋ฆฌ์—”์ผ€์ด๋Š” ๋น„์˜๋ฆฌ, ๋น„์ข…๊ต ๋‹จ์ฒด๋กœ์„œ, ์˜๊ตญ ๋Ÿฐ๋˜ ๊ทผ๊ต ๋‰ด๋ชฐ๋“ ์— ๋ณธ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํƒˆ๋ถ๋ฏผ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์šด์˜๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ”„๋ฆฌ์—”์ผ€์ด๋Š” ๋ถํ•œ์—์„œ ์žํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ์ธ๊ถŒ์œ ๋ฆฐ์„ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™ธ๋ถ€์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ๋‰ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ ‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋ถํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ๋™ํ–ฅ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค, ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ธ๊ถŒ์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด 2005๋…„ 5์›” ์žฌ์˜์กฐ์„ ์ธํ˜‘ํšŒ์˜ ์‚ฐํ•˜๋‹จ์ฒด๋กœ ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ”„๋ฆฌ์—”์ผ€์ด๋Š” 2011๋…„ 6์›” 15์ผ, ์žฌ์˜์กฐ์„ ์ธํ˜‘ํšŒ์—์„œ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋…๋ฆฝํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถํ•œ์ธ๊ถŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— ์ „๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋…๋ฆฝ์  NGO๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ถœ๋ฒ”ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ž์ฒด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋‰ด์Šค์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์„คํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  2๋…„ ํ›„ 2013๋…„ 7์›” 8์ผ, ๊น€์ผ์„ฑ ์‚ฌ๋ง 19์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋งž์•„ ์ฒซ ํƒ€๋ธ”๋กœ์ด๋“œํŒ ์‹ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฐ„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ดํ›„ ํ•œ๊ธ€๊ณผ ์˜์–ด๋กœ ๊ฒฉ์ฃผ์— ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์”ฉ ๋ฐœ๊ฐ„ํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ”„๋ฆฌ์—”์ผ€์ด๋Š” ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์ž์œ ์™€ ๊ถŒ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ๋ถํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์—ญ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ๋ถํ•œ์ •๊ถŒ์˜ ์ธ๊ถŒ์œ ๋ฆฐ์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ข…์ด์‹ ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ์™ธ๋ถ€์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ๋‰ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ ‘ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋ถํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ๋™ํ–ฅ์„ ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ์„ธ๊ณ„์—๋Š” ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋‰ด์Šค์™€ ์ข…์ด์‹ ๋ฌธ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ์ธ๊ถŒ์œ ๋ฆฐ ์ฐธ์ƒ์„ ์•Œ๋ ค์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ๋”ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ”„๋ฆฌ์—”์ผ€์ด ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ๋‰ด์Šค์™€ ์ข…์ด์‹ ๋ฌธ์€ ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ํƒˆ๋ถ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ ์†Œ์‹์„ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งค์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    ํ”„๋ฆฌ์—”์ผ€์ด๋Š” ์‹ ๋ฌธ๋ฐœํ–‰๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ NGO, ์ž์„ ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค๊ณผ ์—ฐํ•ฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ์ด๋ฐ”์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ง€์—ญ์ , ๊ตญ์ œ์  ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€ ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„ ๋‹ค์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜์ธ ์•ฝ 2,000๋ช… ์ •๋„์˜ ํƒˆ๋ถ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ์œ ๋Ÿฝ์—์„œ, ํƒˆ๋ถ ์ด์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์„ ์ง€์›, ์žฌ๊ต์œก ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋ถํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์˜ ์ž์œ , ํ•œ๋ฐ˜๋„์˜ ๋ฏผ์ฃผํ™”์™€ ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

    Cause Areas Include

    • Community Development
    • Conflict Resolution
    • Human Rights & Civil Liberties
    • International Relations
    • International Relations

    Location

    • Wyvern Industrial Estate Beverley Way New Malden, London, ENG KT3 4PE, United Kingdom
      Unit 5
    Illustration

    Discover Your Calling

    Find opportunities to change the world with the latest social-impact job, internship, and volunteer listings. Plus, explore resources for taking action in your community.
    Already a user? Log in