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Erik: How has your work on global poverty issues further motivated you to make a difference
in your local community?
Kyung: When I look at my career, which can seem very sort of schizophrenic kind of starting
at the World Bank and the journalism and now sort of running this non-profit foundation,
the thread that does emerge though and is continuous is that I’m always had a real
passionate interest in tackling issues around poverty and looking at finding solutions that
are sustainable. And I think that whether its global and I’ve certainly, in my travels,
and in then the work that I’ve done and that I’ve been privileged to exposed to
challenges on a global scale and currently looking at challenges on a more local scale
you realize that its all pretty much all the same, that there isn’t a different solution
of here that works better or there’s some sort of magic bullet. I think really what
I’ve learned is that the best solutions come from the grassroots, the best solutions
come from when the people who are affected and the people who are facing the challenges
are apart of solving the problems and help and have a voice in finding solutions as well.
Because that is the way you’re going to really have solutions that are not imposed,
that are not felt to be top-down and sometimes they’re not appropriate for to a particular
setting, or particular circumstance, or particular people and so I think that is something that
I’ve seen as very, very important and that not always is incorporated.