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Hyun (Judy) Ahn</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0.5in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Hello, m</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">y name is </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">So Hyun</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> and I am an </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">editor </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">of public relation</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">s team</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> at Korean Cultural
Center, a non-profit registered student organization. I would like to introduce
a cultural event organized by student volunteers to serve ethnic foods to the
homeless people. This is an awe-inspiring story worthy of coverage, and I hope
you agree.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">International students volunteer to serve their ethnic foods to
the homeless</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Since 2006, the Korean Cultural Center (KCC) has
been introducing Korean culture to community members, regardless of their
background. This year, KCC chose to partner with Restoration Urban Ministries
(RUM) to serve Korean food to homeless families and their children. The event is
set on </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Friday, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">October</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> 26</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> at </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">5</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">pm. RUM welcomes this unique opportunity to inform less
fortunate families with Korean food and musical performances.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The purpose of this event is “not only to
raise Korean cultural awareness to our local community by providing Korea food
but also to provide an educational opportunity for our international students
who might have thought themselves as the marginalized members of this society</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">” </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">s</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">ays Sunny Jeong, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">founder </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">of Korean Cultural Center. About 50 international students will
volunteer to cook, prepare and serve Korean meals for around 70-100 residents
at the RUM event. “We want to prepare traditional, authentic, delicious Korean
food …Bulgogi, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Japchae</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">, and other secret desert menus and drinks that are hardly
introduced to the community” added </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Yoon Hwa (Kevin) Shin</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">, </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">president </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">of KCC. Educational activities are carefully designed and
followed by the dinner. Volunteers will give PowerPoint presentation about Korean
culture then ask guests to inform about American culture. “Educating others and
sharing stories can be empowering as much as receiving education” Sunny Jeong
explains the purpose of this activity and continues. “There will be Korean
music performers who will enrich this authentic cultural experience of Korea in
Champaign. “Karak Madang” traditional Korean percussion group and Korean
classic musical singers from the College of Music at the University of Illinois
will perform later that evening. Sharing Korean food should be festive”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Many families and student volunteers will learn
about each other’s lives as they interact and communicate with each other. The
homeless families can learn about Korean culture, which might have otherwise
been left unfamiliar, and the student volunteers can learn life-lessons from
the families. The outcome of this event therefore will be heart-warming and
memorable. If </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">you are
interested in covering </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">this event, please
make an inquiry to <u><a href="mailto:sahn30@illinois.edu">sahn30@illinois.edu</a>.</u> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">About the Korean
Cultural Center</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:0in;text-align:right;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><img width="268" height="87" src="file:///C:/Users/sahn30/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image003.jpg"></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Korean Cultural Center (KCC) is a non-profit registered
student organization at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Since 2006, KCC has been working with various groups of UIUC students and the
local community to promote diversity, unity, harmony, tolerance and peace by
introducing and educating Korean culture to the community members. KCC promotes
and raises awareness of Korean culture within the Urbana Champaign community as
well as within the University. By doing so, the Center simultaneously functions
as a key and central place to increase diversity and enrich Korean identity in
the United States.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">For more information on <b>the Korean
Cultural Center</b>, please visit </span><a href="http://www.uiuckcc.org/"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.uiuckcc.org</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> or </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">contact</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">So Hyun (Judy) Ahn,</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Public Relations</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> at </span><a href="mailto:_____Phone%20Number________"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">224-489-2214</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"> or </span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><a href="mailto:sahn30@illinois.edu">sahn30@illinois.edu</a></span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"></span></p>
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very much for your consideration.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;text-indent:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">So Hyun Ahn</span></p>
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of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</span></p>
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