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April 1999
Dear Exit,
In reading David Felts’ interview article about Cliff
Reed, I have to tell you, I came away with such feelings of anger!
Am I the only person who sees the restrictive life led
by black American basketball players in this country as the worst form
of racism? Mr. Reed stated that “they're really protective of us” but doesn’t
he understand that “they” want to keep tabs on him because “they’re” terrified
that he and other players might meet Korean women and “pollute” the pure
race? If this kind of monitoring and restriction happened to a black man
in North America, he’d be yelling “RACISM” at the top of his lungs (and
rightly so) to anyone and everyone who would listen!
Black Americans have struggled long and hard to have the
chains and shackles removed, so I find it amazing and appalling that they
come here and accept what amounts to a form of benign slavery.
~ Pat G.
Dear Exit,
Thank you for your interest in poor animals in Korea.
My mum (Sunnan Kim) is the chairwoman of KAPS (Korea Animal Protection
Society) and I am sending you information on behalf of my mum.
She has been doing her best to enlighten Koreans about
animal rights and protect all kinds of life. Especially she has been focusing
on dogs and cats as food as this is the most serious animal problem in
Korea.
The following is a brief of what she does and what KAPS
is about. If you can put this article in the magazine, I would appreciate
it so much.
~Sueyoun Cho
KOREA ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY
1593-19 Daemyong 10-dong, Namku, Taegu
Tel: (053) 629-6143, 622-3588 Fax: (053) 628-6860
The Korea Animal Protection Society currently operates
a shelter in a private home in Taegu which houses close to 380 stray animals.
Established in 1991 by Sunnan Kum, the charitable organization works to
provide adoptive homes for abandoned animals, to educate people about the
necessity of spaying and neutering pets, and to eradicate the practice
of eating dog and cat for medicinal purposes. Instrumental in passing the
Korean Animal Protection Law, KAPS is currently seeking a grant of national
land on which to build a more adequate shelter facility.
If you wish to assist this organization in their efforts,
please write to your government representative and express your views.
In addition, financial assistance is always welcome. Donations can be deposited
directly at any Korea Exchange Bank, account #049-13-19974-5.
Thank you.
Dear Exit,
As a past editor of this esteemed publication, I must
respond to several letters in the March issue.
If you don’t like what’s written in the paper, write something
you do like. To do anything less is to swell the ranks of whiners, complainers,
and do-nothings. It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and criticize; it takes
someone with some guts and imagination to look around and write an article
that is both entertaining and informative.
This is a community paper … so write the kind of article
that you want to read, and be happy ya got a paper to read it in!
Suggestions for articles: ask your students to bring in
news about Pusan; what you like/dislike about the neighborhood you live
in; anything interesting that happened on the bus or subway during the
past month; a Korean lesson; a restaurant review; describe your favorite
place to shop; get to know some of the shopkeepers in your area and write
about them; where do you buy clothes; any holiday or festival day that
is coming up in the next month or so. There are literally thousands of
things to write about.
Thanks for the hard work (the Exit) staff is doing to
keep us entertained and informed.
~ Jon Marshal
Dear Exit,
My name is Kenneth Stice. My father was stationed at the
Kunsan Air Force Base in 1976. During that time he married a Korean woman
by the name of Kim, Hui Sun. In 1977 I was born in a hospital in Kunsan.
They moved back to the States in 1979 where my brother was born. Shortly
after my brother was born, about 6 months, my mother left and moved back
to Kunsan.
We haven’t seen her since that time. It has been 20 long
years and I am married and have a daughter. I would like to see my mother
again and let her know about her granddaughter.
Can you possibly help me? She was born on July 07, 1954.
I believe she was born in Chonpuk-do, Korea but lives in Kunsan. That’s
where her family lived. She has a brother by the name of Kim, Ki Chul.
And a sister by the name of Kim, Ki Suk.
Or possibly if you have a Kunsan phone directory, e-mail
the phone numbers of all the Kim, Hui Sun’s and Kim, Ki Chul’s listed in
Kunsan. I have a picture also if that might help in any way.
This is asking a lot, I know, but my brother and I would
like to have the chance to get to know her.
If you have no way to find any of this information, could
you possibly point me to someone who could?
~Ken Stice
E-mail: [email protected]
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