International Trade committee  Yes. Historically, the festival has been on the more traditional elements of Korea. This year we targeted the modern dynamics of Korea and we tried to show British Columbia a lot of the modern—

International Trade committee  No, I do not.

International Trade committee  This year we did have some help from the ministry of tourism and sport of South Korea to send a 20-member tae kwon do team, the official tae kwon do demonstration team, but this is all community-based, based on donations, a few corporate sponsors, and the city stepping up to the

International Trade committee  No, it isn't, but I'll just go back to Ms. Grewal's question about how we could interact with each other by having Korean products showcased at our festival, having Canadian products showcased at our festival, and having interaction there. I think the festival does more at the gr

International Trade committee  We were established in 2000. Mainly we do an annual festival every summer. It's a community-based event. There's cultural programming and food tasting. It's a fun, family-oriented event. But I think, based on this year's numbers.... If you look at last year's festival, we did 6,0

International Trade committee  You can look at South Korea as being a tastemaker in Asia. Look at K-pop—Korean popular music—or look at the movie industry in Korea, look at the commercials, or at how music is being distributed on multiple platforms such as iTunes, for example. I believe that in British Columbi

International Trade committee  I can speak only for the younger generation in my community, and we just don't know about it. I think there's a very big disconnect between how the government is run and how people in local ethnic minorities view the system, how they see the system working for them. I think it's

International Trade committee  Good morning. My name is Mike M. Suk. I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia, and I represent the Korean Cultural Heritage Society of British Columbia. Established in 2000, the KCHS is a non-profit organization that serves communities in B.C. by organizing community-based multicult