When: 5:30pm, Thursday, 13 April 2006
Where: The Chicago Public Library, Albany Park Branch
5l50 N. Kimball Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625
Tel:  (312) 744-1933 Fax: (312) 744-6266
*Street parking is available.

For more information, contact Cha-hee Lee Stanfield Tel:  (312) 744-1933

The 4/13/06 Chicago Tribune story:
Decades pass but Koreans hold hope for reunions:
'In 15 years, there will be no such thing as 'separated families." We will all be gone.'
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west/chi-0604130196apr13,1,4201081.story?page=1&coll=chi-newslocalwest-hed


Chicago, 13 April 2006— Chicago librarian Cha-hee Stanfield longs to see her brother in North Korea, whom she last saw 60 years ago. Thousands of Korean-American families, including those in the Chicago region, have still not heard from lost sisters, husbands and children more than 50 years after the Korean War.

Journalists are invited to a press briefing on a national campaign led by Chicago's Korean-American community and US Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) to reunite Americans with family members in North Korea. Chicago librarian Cha-hee Lee Stanfield and other elderly immigrants will tell the tragic stories of losing contact with families in North Korea over 50 years ago.

Called Saemsori, this national campaign is sponsored by the Korean American Coalition of the Midwest, and the EugeneBell Foundation. It was launched in February 2006 with the support of 12 US congressmen.

The EugeneBell Foundation supports over 40 medical institutions in the DPR (North) Korea, focusing on the treatment of tuberculosis. In 2001, the Korean American Coalition of the Midwest met with then-Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss divided families, and sponsored a petition drive that received over 20,000 signatures.

Please send RSVPs to alice @ eugenebell . org