KAPS News, May 4th

Welcome to the May 4th, 2010 edition of the KAPS Newsletter.

In this issue:
*May Kappy Hour
*SF Giants Game with KAPS!
*Community Service Event: Volunteer at Koreatown Oakland CultureFest
*KCI Event: North Korea - Human Face Lecture Series - Health Diplomacy in North Korea

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May Kappy Hour

Come join us for the May installment of our monthly Kappy Hour! This is one day after Cinco de Mayo, so get ready to celebrate Korean-style. We have the lounge in the area reserved exclusively for you, your friends, and the rest of KAPS.

Where: Lava Lounge (527 Bryant St, between 3rd St and 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94107)
When: Thursday, May 6th, 2010, 7:30PM (first Thursday of every month)
Website: www.lavasf.com

Each of our Kappy Hours offer a great opportunity to network with fellow Korean-American professionals, meet up with old friends, and learn about what's going on in KAPS.

As a special treat, we will be joined by our friends at the Asian American Donor Program. AADP is a non-profit community organization dedicated to saving the lives of people with leukemia, lymphoma and other blood diseases curable by stem cell transplants. To achieve this mission, AADP conducts outreach, raises awareness, and registers people to be potential bone marrow/stem cell donors, which you can do at the Kappy Hour.

Because finding a matching donor is often based on ethnicity, and individuals of multi-ethnic descent (Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, African American, and Mixed Race) are not well-represented in the donor registry, too many minority patients fail to find donors for a potentially life-saving transplant. By increasing the chances of finding a donor match, AADP hopes to give more patients a chance at beating their disease.

So come help save a life and have a great time KAPS-style. We have some very exciting events planned for summer 2010, so make sure you don't miss out!

SF Giants Game with KAPS!

Join KAPS for a fun-filled night at the fourth annual Korean Heritage Night with the San Francisco Giants! The Giants will be celebrating Korean culture and community impact at their game against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday, May 12th. There will be special pregame and in-game entertainment and everyone who attends will get special Korean Heritage seating and a free Korean-themed souvenir. The SF Giants will also be donating $2 of every ticket sale to the San Francisco Korean Center (http://koreancentersf.org/) - all the more reason to come out and enjoy the game!

Tickets are $20 each (plus $3 processing fee) and can be purchased off our website: http://www.kaps.org/events or you can send a check to Jean to reserve your ticket.

To check out picture from last year's event, please visit our gallery

To reserve your ticket or if you have any questions, please contact KAPS President, Jean Park, at jean@kaps.org

What: Korean Heritage Night with SF Giants
When: Wednesday, May 12th at 7:15pm
Cost: $20 plus $3 processing fee

Community Service Event: Volunteer at Koreatown Oakland CultureFest

Oakland's CultureFest returns for a second full-day celebration of the rich diversity of Oakland's people. Already a large event in 2009, this year's CultureFest will be much grander and include:

Multiple stages with music from different cultures
Martial arts high-action demonstrations
Dance styles from around the world
Children's rides & games
Community bazaar and non-profit fundraising
Local artists and vendors
Car show
Photography and karaoke contests
Beer garden
Food, food, food

KAPS will be organizing a group of volunteers for this big celebration day. You can sign up for time slots anywhere from 8am to 8pm helping out in ways like these:

Festival decoration
Art monitor
Exhibit / vendor booths
Entertainer parking lot
Festival monitors
KoreaTown info booth / sales
Children's area
Clean-up / take-down
Radio dispatcher
Refreshment (beer) garden
Bazaar
Car show
Martial arts / dance stage

Contact us to get the volunteer form that you'll need to turn in by May 1. The sooner you give back the form, the sooner you can get your first choice(s) of volunteer positions!

For more details
*Ask us on our Facebook page.
*Email festival@koreatownnorthgate.org.
*Or call the event HQ at (510) 436-6672 or (510) 648-2337

KCI Event: North Korea - Human Face Lecture Series - Health Diplomacy in North Korea

The Korean Center, Inc. (KCI) is proud to present the next installment of its special lecture series entitled North Korea: Human Face. A group of KAPS members will be attending this lecture on Wednesday, May 19th at 6:00 pm at the Korean Center (1362 Post St, San Francisco). There will also be a reception with refreshments at 7:00 pm.

Global health diplomacy: This lecture is framed around the critical issue of “health diplomacy” as a way to engage North Korea, and comprises Part II of the Global Health Diplomacy subseries of the “North Korea: Human Face” program. An emerging field of global policy, international health diplomacy is a cutting-edge field that interfaces between foreign policy, public health, and law and economics.

Dr. Sharon Perry is a senior research scientist from the Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Stanford University, and science fellow with the Stanford Freeman-Spogli Institute, Center for International Security & Cooperation. Sharon Perry and her team were recently featured in the New York Times for their cutting-edge humanitarian work in North Korea. In an unprecedented collaboration between U.S. and North Korean tuberculosis experts, Perry has been leading a team of U.S. medical specialists working with doctors from Pyongyang’s Ministry of Public Health to develop the country’s first diagnostic laboratory for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).

Dr. Perry’s medical research has focused on the immuno-epidemiology of tuberculosis, for which she is a recipient of an NIH K23 career development award. During 2008, in collaboration with CISAC and APARC, she organized the Bay Area Tuberculosis Consortium to host a delegation of North Korean physicians to visit Bay Area TB programs and discuss opportunities for mutual cooperation. She holds a BA, mcl, in History and Economics from Boston University, and an EdM in Social Policy from Harvard University, and completed her PhD in Epidemiology at UCSD.

The Stanford-led Bay Area Tuberculosis Consortium was organized in 2007 to promote opportunities for professional collaboration with North Korea on mutual interests in TB control. For the past two years, Dr. Sharon Perry has directed the DPRK TB Health Policy Project, which seeks to develop opportunities for academic exchange on tuberculosis control. Dr. Perry will discuss the consortium’s work with the DPRK Ministry of Public Health to develop the country’s first laboratory with capacity to diagnose tuberculosis by culture and drug susceptibility testing. Implications of the project for regional and Pacific Rim TB programs will also be discussed.

Please join the Korean Center's Facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Korean-Center-Inc-KCI-in-San-Francisco/110...

Anyone interested in attending with KAPS should RSVP to KAPS Vice-President Andrew Ko at andrew@kaps.org.

INTERESTED IN GETTING MORE INVOLVED IN KAPS?

KAPS is always on the lookout for people interested in getting the most out of their KAPS experience. We are looking for volunteers to plan social events, coordinate community service events, serve as guest speakers, monitor the website, and improve the overall KAPS member experience. We are also looking for contributors to our newsletters and website, in the form of job postings, professional advice, and relevant news.

If you are interested in becoming an officer, contributing to newsletters, or assisting with an event, please contact andrew@kaps.org.

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