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台外媒體人茶敘-07/15 Kathi Zellweger & Mike Chinoy ”Book Talk: Saving lives in North Korea”
TFCCxATJ Book Talk with authors Kathi Zellweger and Mike Chinoy, on
Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea
Dear Members,
As part of our monthly TFCCxATJ Talk Series, we will be hosting a book talk with Kathi Zellweger, a former aid worker in and renowned expert on humanitarian assistance to North Korea, and her co-author Mike Chinoy on Wednesday July 15.
Kathi made 75 trips to North Korea and lived there for five years. Her book Miss Kathi: Saving Lives in North Korea, co-written with TFCC member and former CNN Asia correspondent Mike Chinoy, is one of the first book-length accounts in English by an aid worker operating on the ground in the DPRK. Kathi had access to North Korea that most journalists and most aid workers can only dream of.
Renowned Korea expert John Delury called the book “a gift to the field of North Korea studies, and anyone who wants to get an unbiased, unvarnished, yet compassionate view of life for ‘average’ Koreans”. Miss Kathi, Saving Lives in North Korea will be released on September 1. This book talk provides an exculsive opportunity to meet her in Taipei.
Attendance is free for members of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC) and the Association of Taiwan Journalists (ATJ).
Non-members must register in advance may apply to join TFCC or ATJ on site.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: July 15, 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:15 PM (Doors open at 6:45 PM)
Venue: Two Three Comedy Club (23喜劇俱樂部), 台北市中山區林森北路286號B1
Language: English
Registration: https://forms.gle/SbPyD8HEB3uFKD7C7
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Katharina “Kathi” Zellweger is a senior aid manager with over thirty years of field experience in Hong Kong, China, and North Korea. She was born in Switzerland and has traveled dozens of times to North Korea. From 2006 to 2011, she was based in Pyongyang as the country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). She also created and managed KorAid Limited, an NGO helping children in institutions and those with disabilities in North Korea and China. Zellweger is also a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University in California.
Light refreshments will be provided.
