“ASES” after SELF ASIA with ASES

1. Outline

Time: Saturday, July 21st 14:00 ~ Sunday, 22

Location: WT Education Room, Basement of Work Together Foundation

Participants: Ji-Eun Bang, Bu Young Cho, Hyeong Beom Cho, Sun Ah Choi, Ji Yeon

Chu, Kyung-Ah Jang, Byul Jeon, Jaewon Jeong, Somin Jeong, Ji Hwan Kim, Kyung

Nam Kim, Dai-Ho Ko, Ji Yeon Lee, Ji-Eon Park, Jung Hwa Park, Jun Sang Park, Sang

Ha Park, Wooyoung Park, Sun Mi Seo (Total 19, in alphabetical order)

Purpose: (1) To evaluate ASES, (2) To know each other better through Living Library,

(3) To discuss ways to stay connected after ASES

2. Programs

(1) Evaluation of ASES

The session was led by Wooyoung Park, and we used two ways to evaluate

the conference. First, we plotted a graph by evaluating each day (total of 5 days) of

ASES. Secondly, we graded ASES on to scale of zero to ten. After 20 minutes of

writing, we shared what we felt, grades, and graphs.

<We drew graphs by evaluating each day of ASES

and graded the overall conference>

<One by one, we shared what we felt during ASES and our evaluations>

(2) Living Library

Total of 8 Human Books had the chance to talk about them. It was run in two

sessions, and each Human Book had 3 to 4 people.

<During little more than two hours, we shared what we do, thought, and plan to

do. By the end of Living Library, we knew everybody a little bit better.>

(3) Staying Connected

We wrote in post-its what we expect from the group and what we want to do

in the group.

A. What we expect

Not really anything, a starting point, knowing good people,

motivation, stimulus, sharing relevant information, creating a company or

organization together, sharing thoughts about future career and plans,

constantly doing something, supporters, cheering each other’s dream,

cooperation, sharing social issues, sharing each other’s ability/skill, think about

the problems of Asia

B. What we want to do

Friendship, listening carefully to what others are interested and liking

on Facebook, receiving feedbacks for social enterprises or projects each other is

running, sharing relevant information, sharing new ideas, sharing information about

lectures and forums, help, create a database of social enterprises, communities, and

people, sharing experiences, having a study group, talent donation, flea market,

English study group and book club, social issues study group, various possibilities of

collaboration, regular get together, small project (roaming around Jeonju in Korean

traditional clothing, Hanbok), travel (study tour, Mt. Jiri, fair travel, Seoul, Jeonju), visit

local social enterprises,

We shared what we expected from the group and what we want to do in the

group, and we organized the ideas by level of difficulty from low to high.

In general, we thought that we be each other’s supporters rather than

potential business partners. We also thought that it would be nice if we learn English,

read books, and share social issues together in small groups. So we decide to create

small groups in Jeonju and Seoul.

C. Small groups

1. Social issues study group

- Discuss social issues and share solutions: Hyeongbum Cho

- Forum of Asian and local social problems and alternatives: Dai-Ho Ko

- Understanding of social enterprises in your position: Byul Jeon

2. Talent donation

- Create a database where our skills/abilities can put to use: Byul Jeon

3. Daily drawing

- Drawing what you see everyday: Wooyoung Park, Somin Jeong

4. English study and book club

- Seoul: Somin Jeong

- Jeonju: Ji-Hwan Kim

- Abroad: Sang Ha Park

(4) Miscellaneous

- There was a talk about how we should stay connected with international

participants, but we decided that it would be better to first see how Koreans stay

connected and then decide what would work internationally. Currently not even the

Koreans have established a solid network, so it is a difficult situation to make a blog

and run it. Also we are curious about how international participants are

communicating with each other. We feel like the discussion mostly represents Anas

and Mitch.

- Next meeting is scheduled on Saturday, August 25th in Jeonju, and in between we

will meet each other in small groups. Exactly where and when the meeting will be

held and what will be discussed in the meeting is not decided yet.

- There were talks about creating an internet café to share information.

- There is a wide of spectrum of what we want from this group, and we think there is

a lot more of having personal supporters of what we do than doing something

together. While the process of planning and doing something together is very

important in this type of voluntary meeting, I don’t think we feel the need to plan

since we are used to only participating in already planned activities. I think we need

a lot more people to participate in the process of planning what we are going to do

as a group such as what’s going to happen next in Jeonju and what will be discussed.