Theme: Like a Salmon

TEDxYouth@KMLA is an unprecedented intellectual conference happening on Sunday, September 24th, 2017. At the beautiful campus of KMLA(Korean Minjok Leadership Academy) with 9 speakers, this event brings together a community of our future leaders driven by powerful ideas, remarkable insights, and the desire to share their inspirations.
Multifarious activities and interactive opportunities will be prepared for the attendants under the theme of this year, “Being a Salmon.” Salmon is not supposed to end on our dinner plate. It is supposed to be on its great journey: travel hundreds of miles against the stream, reach its birthplace, and create its descendants. Throughout the series of talks, we will present you nine unique salmons with different backgrounds who have struggled to go up against the stream.

Korean Minjok Leadership Academy
800 Bongwha-ro Anheung-myeon
Korean Minjok Leadership Academy
Hoengseong-gun, Gang'weondo, 225-823
South Korea

Dana Ryoo

Dana Ryoo

Doctor Simpson

Doctor Simpson

Doyeop Lee

student

Doyeop Lee is a student who is deeply interested in comparative linguistics and phonology. He is especially fascinated in phonology of North Germanic languages, which is the reason why he is spending most of his spare time studying Swedish and Icelandic by himself. Recently, he also opened a blog in Japanese, wishing to improve his Japanese writing skills. He currently attends Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, a high school in South Korea.

Haeryun Kang

Haeryun Kang

Hyunseo Yi

student

Hyunseo Yi, a junior who attends the prestigious Korean Minjok Leadership Academy, has her sights set on creating a more meaningful and socially responsible business model. Understanding the need for more civic-minded leadership, she plans to transform companies into agents of convenient social innovation. Her first meaning step towards this goal led to the development of a smart navigation device for the blind that utilizes ultrasonic waves.

Jake Schaeifer

Jake Schaeifer

Jane Han

student

Jane Han is a current student of Korean Minjok Leadership Academy. She is interested in sociology and political science. She plans her future as a sociologist who creates a new paradigm of social structure so that it could help the minorities in terms of inequalities. Recently, she also found deep interest in gender issues, and hopes to improve the society in this aspect.

Sang Min Jung

student

Sang Min Jung is a current student of Korean Minjok Leadership Academy. Interested in the field of law, he has led his school’s Mock Trial team to several competitions and showed great enthusiasm toward studying the U.S. legal system. Recently, he found deep interest in gender studies and hopes to pursue his new passion. In his speech, he talks about the micro aggression he had to endure as a color blind person and elaborates on his opinion on the idea of privilege.

Sangyoon Park

student

Sangyoon Park is a high school student currently attending Korean Minjok Leadership Academy in South Korea. He is interested in various fields, especially in economics, law, and math, planning his future related to those areas. The topic he chose to present is correlated with his characteristic, which is to think deeply about different matters including relationship with family and friends, future, happiness and so on.

Seowoo Rhee

student

Seowoo Rhee is a student particularly interested in mass media and broadcasting. She wants to design and lead her own talk-show programme that freely communicates with her audience, sharing ideas from everyday events to heavy news topics. In a cold-hearted society, she wishes to heal citizens' tough lives through her programme which deals with various kinds of enthusiastic subjects. She recently started to research misuses of mass media and the negative effects towards the community, and prepared a presentation discussing the abuses and drawbacks. In her presentation, she talks about how she became a salmon in the society of mass media, and explains how to deal with wrongdoings and solutions to fix this problem. We all naturally believe and accept everything the media shows. Seowoo's presentation will get rid of your biased thinking and reveal the evil mask of mass media.

Ye Joo Han

student

Ye Joo Han is a student who is interested in linguistics and feminism. Ye Joo founded the first club studying feminism in her school and constantly works hard to share her thoughts on feminism with other individuals. As for linguistics, she loves words and languages, whether it be exploring how languages differ or controlling specific nuances of words in her debate speeches. At this TEDx, she plans to bring together her two interests: linguistics and feminism. She wil. be exploring how profanity affects the status of women across cultures. She currently attends KMLA, a high school in South Korea.