The Korea Verband e.V. carries out extensive public outreach and educational work that deepens knowledge and promotes critical reflection on Korea, embedding these in a discourse that overcomes national perspectives and one-sided narratives. This includes, among others:
Current Projects:
- Share Your Solidarity! – Telling, Listening, Documenting
- Publication of the biannual magazine Korea Forum
- Working Group “Comfort Women”
Projects 2024:
- Asien-Pazifik Raum schaffen
- Light Trees
- A²BC – African and Asian Berlin Communities
- Share Your Solidarity! – Empowerment Workshops for Youth from Moabit
- Remapping Memories
- Strong Monuments, Strong Communities Against Racism!
- Byeolmuri: Sit Next to Ari
Past Projects:
- EPRIE – Exchange Program for Regional Integration in Europe and East Asia
- Korea Madang
- Sonmal Sueo – Promoting Communication Between Deaf People from North and South Korea
- Floating Roots
- Byeolmuri 2023 – Festival of the Stars
- ABC: Asian Berlin Communities
- Working Group Migration
- Working Group North Korea
- Event Series “From Powerlessness to Empowered Listening”
- MUEON – Interdisciplinary Festival on Forced Prostitution and Trauma of Violence
- Initiative Culture
Our Core Tasks and Areas of Activity:
- Organizing and conducting conferences, seminars, and international symposia on political, social, economic, and cultural topics
- Exchange programs to foster intercultural dialogue
- Various publications
- Lectures at conferences and similar events, as well as academic work and consulting on Korea-related issues
- Literary events
- Film screenings
- Social and political initiatives
- Ad hoc campaigns: demonstrations, rallies, panel discussions
- Networking with other NGOs, trade unions, and churches in Asia and Europe