Lumen Education Program Co., Ltd.

My contributions

• Co-founded Lumen to close a gap I noticed: Cambodian children with almost no books. I run the company website and wrote about the work in A Pagoda.
• Handled incorporation on the ground with local counsel: an E-class business visa, Ministry of Commerce filings, shareholder terms, office management.
• Take a book from a youth’s first recount of folktale and other stories to print across manuscript, translation, and printing in Khmer, English, and Korean.
• Funded the first runs myself; sales now pay for 300 additional copies, given free to schools, libraries, and partners to promote reading and cultural understanding.
• Run biweekly reading and exchange workshops, in schools and over Zoom, for 46 youths and young adults.
• Coordinate Cambodian youth library managers and overseas volunteers to deliver 2,500+ donated books from Korea and the U.S., growing the National Library’s children’s section and three small libraries.
• Led outreach to institutions including Royal University of Phnom Penh through cold emails and the Ewha community

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