SEALNet in Newsweek Korea - July 16 2008

Here's an article that came out in Newsweek Korea, written by Ms. Ryu Jee-Won on July 16, 2008.

Article Context:
SEALNet is mentioned in p.4's right column. The whole article is about the rising trend in the world where people do community services globally. The "we" does not designate just our neighbors, our cities, our nations, rather it points to global community, going off the boundaries of your map. In pages 3-5, the article talks mainly about such works by NGO's in Korea. SEALNet is mentioned to show that a community service can take any shape and form, as long as one creatively applies one's own passion and interest to the task.

The translation of the paragraph that refers to SEALNet:

For those interested in doing overseas community service, there's no need to follow how it's usually been done. Leveraging on one's own area of interest, it can be pursued in many creative manners. In 2004, 5 Asian students at Stanford University, U.S.A., formed an organization called SEALNet (Southeast Asia Leadership Network) which sends teams of volunteers to Southeast Asia. Through SEALNet, teams of volunteers are organized around each project, such as sanitation and water management. Jiun Haur Wang, who runs the overall operations, says "I want to continue working in a government or non-profit organization, and I have plans to start a SEALNet chapter in my home country Singapore." In the meantime, Shin Jee-Youn (27), who has spent her adolescent years in the States and is now working as a management consultant in Korea, visits of companies and organizations after work with a business proposal. Shin and her 1.5 generation Korean American friends are designing a non-profit program for lower income Korean American students to visit Korea's national sites and experience the culture. "Since the Cho Seung-Hee event, I've been wanting to help my juniors to forgo identity crisis that I went through," says Shin. Jiun Haur Wang and Shin both say the same thing: "When you ask for help, a lot more people that you think gladly respond. Because of the warm exchanges among people, I cannot quit." This is a kind of addiction worth getting into.