Freedom Speakers International

Introduce the activities of FSI (formerly TNKR), which started in 2013.

2023: FSI speaker Songmi Han was a featured speaker at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy; 7 FSI speakers gave speeches to governement agencies and civil organizations in Washington D.C; FSI Video Exhibition in New York City featured testimonies of 8 North Korean refugees in FSI.

2022: Became incorporated in South Korea, registered by the Ministry of Unification; Published 2 North Korean refugee memoirs: Greenlight to Freedom/ My Father`s North Korea Story; FSI co-founder Casey Lartigue was awarded Seoul Honorary Citizenship.

2021: TNKR is renamed as Freedom Speakers International(FSI); FSI hosts 12^th Youth English Speech Contest; FSI 13^th English Speech Contest

2020: TNKR hosts 11^th English Speech Contest; 100th Language Matching session is held; TNKR re-locates the office to Sansung-dong

2019: TNKR hosts Ivy League Unification Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.; Track 3, focusing on Career Development, launches.

2018: TNKR registers as a 501(c)3 non-profit in the USA.; TNKR holds its 10^th English Speech Contest.

2017: TNKR student Cherie Yang delivers TEDx Talk in the U.K.; TNKR is approved by the South Korean tax office as an official donor recipient organization.; TNKR co-founders Casey Lartigue and Eunkoo Lee deliver TEDx

2016: Eunsun Kim, author of A Thousand Miles to Freedom, wins TNKR’s 3^rd English speech contest.; TNKR co-hosts International Volunteer Workshop at the National Assembly.; International Workshop.; TNKR registers as a non-profit organization in Seoul.; TNKR is renamed the Teach North Korean Refugees Global Education Center.; TNKR moves into its own office, near Gwangheungchang Station; TNKR profiled by TVN's "Little Big Heroes" in a 49-minute special.

2015: TNKR hosts 1^st English Speech Contest. Sungju Lee, later author of Every Falling Star, wins the first contest.; TNKR student Yeonmi Park publishes In Order to Live.

2014: Casey Lartigue Jr, TNKR co-founder delivers a speech and moderates Chanyang's session.; TNKR co-founder Casey Lartigue and TNKR student Yeonmi Park launch "The Casey Lartigue Show with Yeonmi Park.“; TNKR student Yeonmi Park delivers emotional speech at One Young World that has now been viewed more than 80 million times.; TNKR is split in half, Track 1 Flexible Tutoring, Track 2 Public Speaking.

2013: "North Korean refugee teachers project" holds its first English Matching session at a TOZ center near Bangbae Station; The group's activities are renamed as English Matching; Renamed as Teach North Korean Refugees Project; TNKR becomes a project at Freedom Factory Co., Ltd.; TNKR student Chanyang Ju delivers the keynote address at the Asia Liberty Forum