[New-imc] IMC-Korea! Email list request

[Otto Nomous]

Hi evan,
As a matter of fact, I'm meeting with Myung-Joon Kim from Labor News 
Production (lnp89.org) this morning to discuss matters about IMC-Korea 
and its prospects. As you may know, due to being the "most wired 
country in the world", there's no lack of activist media forums and 
networks in South Korea. There's even www.base21.org for up-to-date 
news in English. Most of these groups have many resources and are 
completely self-sufficient. So, much of the work that will go into 
outreaching to pre-existing groups will consist of conveying the need 
for an IMC-Korea. While language is always a big reason, for South 
Korea, the reason there isn't a IMC-Korea already also could have to do 
with some that do not feel like they need any "help" by joining a 
network like IMC, which they could even see as a "western-centric" way 
of controlling what constitutes "independent media". Political 
differences can also be an obstacle.

All of the people on board the IMC-Korea project so far, including 
myself, however, feel that a creation of IMC-Korea will be an 
invaluable resource and will end up contributing highly to the existing 
networks of independent media as well as further popularizing 
participatory media-making in South Korea.

-jino

On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 03:29  PM, evan wrote:
> I have a question, i know there are some amazing korean labour video 
> collectives and i've long been impressed by the folks at jinbo.net. 
> Have you managed to get in touch with them?
>
> in solidarity,
> evan
>
> On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 02:38  AM, Otto Nomous wrote:
>
>> Hi. The outreach process for IMC-Korea has begun! There's a lot of 
>> excitement and enthusiasm amongst various groups and individuals 
>> within Korea for setting up an IMC. Groups that have been part of the 
>> outreach process so far include PRISM (http://prism.jinbo.net) and 
>> Korean Anarchist Network (http://www.anarclan.net). To aid in our 
>> outreach process, we're doing a couple of things. One, to translate 
>> the documents at: 
>> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/DocumentsTranslation (we're 
>> currently working on this) and two, to set up an email list, which 
>> we'd like help on. Please let me know as soon as you can if an 
>> "imc-korea" mailing list could be set up.
>> Thanks and Happy Mayday.
>> -Jino
>>
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