Korea Independent Media Center

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많은 분들과 함께 영화 보고 얘기하고 싶어요!

다음주 토요일 저녁 6시 홍대에서 만나요~ :)

imc (한국 인디미디어)를 준비하는 이들

 Free Documentary!

Indymedia Korea Presents:

"The Structure of Goliath: a battle for survival" by Kim Gyeong-man
(with English subtitles)

 
Residents of Pung-dong fight forced eviction in a struggle against
construction companies and their hired thugs

Also, a bilingual discussion about Redevelopment in Korea and
the recent Yongsan Fire Disaster

when: Saturday 3-21 6pm
where: Ri "Redemption" Bar in Hongdae (map is on the poster below)

an IMC-Korea Film Screening
http://indymedia.cast.or.kr

contact: 010-9871-9941
jefejose at hotmail.com

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Korea IMC general meeting

Mar 11, 2009

Attendees: Jeff, Bum, Moona, Miwon, Jigaksaeng, Tammy, Giraffe, Sharon, Agatha, Takeshi, Jimmy.

Roles:

Miwon – translation, time keeping

Jeff – facilitation

Bum – translation

Giraffe – note taking (english)

Jigaksaeng – note taking (korean)

Agenda Items:

1. Document preparation

2. Website

3. Consensus decision-making process

4. Film Screening

5. Content production

6. Contacting groups

 

Consensus decision-making process

New role: vibes watcher. Someone who watches individuals and makes a list of those who want to speak, announce concerns or

Proposal:

consensus decision making process passes (with the understanding that there may be minor adjustments for longer meetings, etc)

Documents discussion:

(15 minutes)

in order to join the global IMC network (official participation in the network to Nick, sponsor from IMC austin) the following documents are necessary:

mission statement (3 pages—see summary: background information New Year’s Eve to the present; 4 categories of activity: website development Drupal, tech meetings, organization of website, outreach working group with different activist groups, outreach on individual levels, editing working group public meetings, web content eg Yongsan disaster newstories, resistance to NATO meetings, objectives & plans for the future)

further discussion:

1) objectives & plans for the future section of the mission statement document

e.g. why a korea imc? Dreams?

• (Giraffe and Moona) get news from within korea out

• have a more participatory website/open news publishing/anonymity –

  (potential 3^rd objective?)

• trying to get more global issues written for a korean audience in korean (concern: there are other media that already does this? Concern about priorities or are these trends in objectives re: english media that provides independent journalism outlet for social issues occurring within korea; updating articles)capacity or vision issue? writing in multiple languages (e.g. korean, english...) , volunteers & translation for editorial team; open news wire (like indybay? between korean newswire and international news wire upload?)--leave as an option?

Call for consensus: PASSED

add to the objectives and plans for the future section of the mission statement (to be drafted by Bum):

provide a medium for bringing an open news wire for foreign news into korea on the website /anonymous open publishing

concern: do we need to clarify what the the objectives are for fundamentally...? additional concern: vanguard perception? Clarification: anonymous open publishing as an objective that resonates with imc

add a goal to the mission statement: making a global network based on grassroots media and activist activity in solidarity (Moona)

2. editorial policy (call to not discuss in person and to continue this on the activist board for feedback and Moona will wrap this up with the additional clarification on features) (Giraffe would like to add using the email as a way for folks to submit feature proposals/center with photos) clarification and proposal: submit the documents as they are and revise them after? (make minor revision re: gender demographics or age demographics /identity section of application Miwon will take care of that) deadline: March 18, 2009 PASSED

3. membership criteria

4. principles of unity

    

Screening event

space: (redemption bar) ssangsangmadang reggae space /free tibet activist/James

date: Saturday March 21 Hongdae crowd 6pm

web poster design (Kenchang) and event roles (Miwon, Moona) and projector (Jeff)?

Redevelopment/anti-eviction

Question to visit later: will we be having other events?

website discussion

Proposal: add email function (already existing voter function) submit features stories line=editorial team will manage this email, watch for spam

look at test site; migrate over

clarification: why are there two options? Two standards/trolls?

Voting function is new on drupal /imc web mechanism adoption -- Jigaksaeng and Giraffe will look at this more/experimenting?

Clarification: just create a check function on wire stories to see if the writers would like the stories to be a feature story (and have this monitored...provide guidelines link for writers)

proposal: experiment with all three options, Jigaksaeng is up for the work (email is easiest/immediate) progressively PASS

items of concern for the web development:

background color to white

sidebars (same color as background)

no korean map on the banner

what will go in the banner?

Disability standards (font size and color)

links on website? don’t post other banners on main page (aesthetically authoritarian), but can add links within articles for more information? Does this include blogrolls and feeds?

Close-out:

next meeting: March 25^th Wednesday

roles: facilitator: Miwon

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giraffe wrote some days ago following:

"I'm worried about the survival of Korea Indymedia.

At our first general meeting, about 20 or 30 people came. Since that time, we've had about 5 general meetings and each time it happens, there are less people than the time before. It seems like the project is dieing one step at a time and that fact is breaking my heart...that fact is a rusty nail slowly driving itself deeper into my heart, one twist at a time.

There were only 5 of us at the last meeting. Because of the major absence of attendees, we were all hesitant to proceed with the meeting and the discussions. Everyone seemed drained of energy, including myself.

We are almost ready to apply to the global network! How can this happen? ...

I'm worried about the survival of Korea Indymedia."

no chr.!: well, when we made the first attempt to create IMC S.K. (late winter 2005) we agreed that there's a complete different initial situation for us (in S.K.) compared with the other IMCs, for example in "old europe".
as in germany: when IMC was established in 1999, the internet was like a "black hole" for the left/progressive/alternative.. movement. open spaces, media activism etc... - complete unknown (until today the "freeboard" is almost unknown/non-existent!!)!

so the IMC was established to give the groups/individuals (in opposition to the ruling system) a open platform to publish their opinions, reports... and to create an alternative, independent media network. etc, etc..

in S.K. the situation was(is) complete different! almost every activist group had/has its own home page, incl. a "freeboard"(게시판).. there are some central open spaces, like the freeboard in "jinbo.net", or in "nodong-ui sori", where everyone can publish his/her statements, reports etc...
so when you can read(and understand) korean you'll get a lot of informations - day by day. but you need to know the korean language! because in english you'll find almost NO independent infos, reports... only the bourgeois media (+hankyoreh) is writing daily in english (*).

although some alternative/progressive/radical left web-sites (**) have their own english sections - you'll find almost NO up-to-dated stuff there!

but there are many people "around the world" who are very interested in the daily class struggle (etc.) in S.K.

so we, as far as i remember (well, you should ask dope or mahbub, they must know..), agreed (2005) that IMC S.K. should be a prior tool for the activists (but also for "ordinary" journalists) 'around the world' to get independent ENGLISH informations about the daily struggle/current situation in S.K.

* until 2004 "jinbo.net" had its own english section (base21), but..  and the current english "newscham" section - just forget it!!(sorry)

** "anarclan", "sarangbang", "anti-war.." etc..

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한국어기록은 영어기록 아래 있다.

March 5, 2009.

Korea IMC general meeting.

Attendees: 지각생, 미누, 이무기, 기린, Agatha.

Agenda items:

1. Website: there have been some new proposals, configurations and items added to the test website.

*We decided to use the same background color for all sections of the website in order to smoothen the aesthetic divisions between the feature section, newswire and menu sections of the website.

*We decided to add the imc e-mail address to the footer of our website.

*We decided to put a “publish” button above the newswire.

 

2. Documents: in order to apply to the global network, we need to prepare the mission statement, editorial policy, membership criteria and principles of unity. We decided to wait until more people contribute to the document contents before we submit them to our sponsor.

 

3. Next meeting: next week, thursday the 12^th, 7 pm at MWTV.

 

4. Next meeting agenda items (please propose more):

*Talk about the documents we will submit to the global network and post on our website.

*Talk about our goals, objectives, who we are and why we are doing what we do.

*Talk about language.

3월 5일 2009년

한국 독립미디어센터 전체회의

출석사람: 미누, 지각생, 이무기, 기린, 아가타.

아젠다 항목:

1. 웹사이트. 실험 웹사이트에 새로운 제안과 변화한 것이 있다.

~웹사이트의 배경에 똑같은 색깔을 쓰기로 했다.

~웹사이트의 아래 부분에 우리의 이메일 주소를 붙이기로 했다.

~뉴스와이어 위에 인쇄하기라는 버턴을 추가하기로 했다.

2. 서류. 국제적 넽워크에 연결하기 위한 선언, 편집정책, 회원자격, 원칙을 준비해야 한다. 더 많은 사람들이 서류내용에 기고할 때까지 기다리기로 했다.

3. 다음 전체회의는 다음주 목요일 12일 7시 MWTV에서 할 것이다.

4. 다음 모임의 아젠다 항목 (더 제안해줘):

~국젝적 넽워크에 보내고 웹사이트에 붙일 서류들에 대해 이야기할 것이다.

~우리의 목적, 목표, 구성, 행동에 대해 이야기할 것이다.

~언어에 대해 이야기할 것이다.