Response to JADAM Youngsang Cho’s article – Rei Yoon – Medium
Response to JADAM Youngsang Cho’s article
Rei YoonFollow
Jul 1, 2018
Our responses are in bold, written in between Youngsang Cho’s original article.
Lies in Rei Yoon’s around 20 long responses. I am uploading a statement again. I apology for those who have tired of this drama. THIS STATEMENT IS LONG. BUT WHOEVER HAS READ ALL OF REI’S RESPONSES AND GOT BAD IMPRESSION ABOUT JADAM AND ME, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT, IF YOU READ IT TO THE END.
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What I am going to say is not assumptions which Rei Yoon is good at it. I am going to say only facts. From Hankyu Cho (Master Cho) who is 83 years old and has cerebral infarction, SARM got the agreement of CGNFI North American branch with Master Cho’s sign only through phone call from a substitute secretly. The agreement bears the marks of forgery of a contract and it is poor and nonsense (JADAM international advisory counsel). With such a poor agreement, they threatened to sue people in public. SARM were unreasonable.
Our lawyer said the contract is perfectly legal in entire Canada where SARM sits. Signing party will be responsible for entering a legal contract, then claiming it is illegal, and breaching it.
CGNFI North American branch can drastically reduce activities area of CGNF HAWAII & CGNF HAWAII-I. Master Cho thought you are bad people so he added your names on the first warning statement.
You said the contract is nonsense but now you say that it is strong enough to drastically reduce activities area of CGNF Hawaii. CGNFI North American branch has no conflict of interest with CGNF HAWAII & CGNF HAWAII-I. The territory does not overlap. Master Cho believes we are evil because you made him believe Hawaii is part of North America.
If you were honest and confident, you had to CALL Kim C S Chang who uploaded the first warning statement and Master Cho who signed the statement to solve misunderstanding.
SARM has done no wrong toward CGNFI or CGNF Hawaii and the three people mentioned never did wrong to Master Cho or Kim Chang. Are you saying innocent people that were victimized should call first? I consider Master Cho signed it because you tricked him. But why didn’t Kim Chang contact me BEFORE posting that warning everywhere? Kim Chang apologized for this, didn’t you know?
Rei Yoon (Seung-seo Yoon) had to debate with facts, not with assumptions.
You assumed so many times that we did a parody in number 13 out of 20.
SARM did not answer any of important problems which I brought up. Moreover, Seung-suk Lee, the president of SARM, said “If Master Cho is in a state that his son claims to be, he should immediately resign from president of CGNFI” and “X seems to be demonstrating prowess by holding Master Cho as a hostage”. You had to explain the questions and doubts which I brought up!
If Master Cho is a helpless old man “as you say,” he must resign from president of CGNF. Do you not even understand a sentence that starts with “if”? We think he is healthy, especially mentally. As for your traps, doubts, and questions, read our response here.
Stop raising assumptions only!
You are the master of assumption and illogic. I think you are X not Youngsang. I will speak to X, not YS from now.
At least, Rei Yoon shouldn’t threaten to sue in public.
What you did are illegal, including threatening. Seeking legal solution to illegal act is not a threat. Together with Mr. Lee, I almost convinced President Lee that we should sue you thanks to your unacceptable crimes. President Lee is firm that Master Cho and his wife should be protected. Ironic when his own family is hurting him.
Old people who were closed to Rei Yoon got scared because if they make a wrong response to SARM, they might lose their whole fortune. They sent messages to us and said it will be better for us to apology first. In this situation, I couldn’t stay silence. If I didn’t show action against Rei Yoon, they might still tremble in fear which was caused by Rei Yoon.
Who are “Old people who were closed to” me? Are you talking about your parents-in-law? Your old father-in-law got in trouble because he did inappropriate acts against SARM because of you. I think you scared them with lies that they will lose their whole fortune.
Seung-suk Lee (SARM) worries about JADAM.
President Lee worried about JADAM because you keep speaking weird things and receiving public’s distaste. She still trusts and worries about President Youngsang Cho. Even when YS threatened me that I should go explain myself to the police, she said, “He must be drunk.” She doesn’t think you can speak such nonsense. That is how much she trusts YS.
People around me asked me to apology to SARM because Seung-suk Lee’s husband is a tax administration officer so, she might ask her husband to destroy JADAM with a tax investigation. But I couldn’t give up. She actually really said “I am deeply concerned for the organization that he heads”. I took the meaning as she is going to destroy JADAM with a tax investigation. However, I am not a coward by nature. Like Master Cho!
Looking at your thoughts, you really are X. You asked your husband to do dirty things and manipulated him to do things that he should not. That is why you think President Lee as your level. YS, it is your greatest misfortune that X is your closest person.
President Lee cannot imagine destroying anybody. She will not accept even her friends or family if they link public work such as tax investigation with private affairs. Do you mean Mr. Sangwoo Lee when you say Seung Suk Lee’s husband without mentioning the name directly? He is respected for the highest standard of fairness and ethics.
You (1) insulted Seung Suk Lee, (2) insulted Sangwoo Lee, and (3) Korean tax service is a corrupt agency that uses tax investigation for personal revenge. You will have to explain this. President Lee really respects and worries about JADAM and YS. How can you take concerns for JADAM as a tax investigation?
You were treasurer for JADAM. Did you do any embezzlement deceiving Youngsang who is not good with numbers or profit? Is JADAM’s financial structure so poor that it needs a tax investigation? Are you planning to blame President Lee and Mr. Sangwoo Lee if you get a tax investigation in the future?
I remember President Lee, the Chairperson of JADAM Advisory Committee, advised you three years ago that JADAM has to be incorporated as a non-profit! She asked you to make the finance really transparent for the donators and also for JADAM.
Master Cho that I know is not a coward. I hope you are not too.
Rei Yoon described me as shameless in his post and this post about me will go down and stay forever in Facebook.
I said you are shameless to hide behind YS. Who started this? All your lies and libel about me will stay forever in Facebook. Why do you continue without apologizing? I tried to be objective and embracing. X, your evil plan designed to destroy President Lee, Pastor Lee, and me is destroying Youngsang Cho now. Do you have to accomplish your wicked goals even if it means the destruction of not only Master Cho, but of YS?
Therefore, I cannot stay calm without refutation. Insult about me also falls the honor of JADAM. I am the president of JADAM who has 60,000 members so I am a man with a mission to actively stop them.
X is a disgrace to JADAM giving shame to 60,000 members. YS, you should get out.
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I am not perfect. As Rei Yoon said, I am not perfect. Nevertheless, I have led JADAM for 30 years and most of JADAM researchers are working with me more than 10 years. Current JADAM staffs are 14.
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YS’s problem is not that he is not perfect. His problem is that he trusts X.
From now on, I will correct Rei Yoon’s responses and statements. There is no assumption but just facts.
1) HOW I STARTED TO WORK WITH REI YOON
I didn’t ask Rei Yoon to work together as he mentioned in his response 1. That time, Rei Yoon didn’t have a job. So, Seung-suk Lee (SARM) asked me to hire Rei Yoon continuously when we met in Vancouver, Canada.
YS said to me that he came to Canada to meet me, not for pleasure, suggested to work together many times, and I refused. I had my own plan of buying a vacant land and turning it into an organic farm. I was searching for such land. I was also considering studying Chinese medicine and pursing Tai Chi. In front of me, you looked at President Lee and asked her to “support convince” me. How can you explain visiting and spending so many days with me if you didn’t want to hire me? Purely because you missed me?
You met many people during the stay, not only President Lee and me. You visited many of President Lee’s friends. When President Lee treated you at home or in restaurants, she invited other friends and introduced you. Every time, you said to them that you came to Canada to scout me, you were happy that it worked out, and thanked President Lee’s help. There are so many witnesses.
They all remember clearly how you called President Lee “Godmother.” You tried so hard to please her, praising her. President Lee did not like being called “Godmother” at first, coined by YS, but gave in because you insisted. Surely she helped you more than any Godmother. She helped the reconciliation with parents. Then the first thing you do after making up with your parents-in-law is to use and manipulate the great man.
I replied her that we cannot hire him due to financial reasons. So, she suggested low price, $2,000 per month and I accepted it. After that, I gave Rei Yoon $2,500 per month.
When you came to ask me to work together, I was working as a professional translator with a business registration. My rate is on average 100 dollars per page, very high in the industry. I was also considering entering a Traditional Chinese Medicine school and looking to buy a large land to build farm with the money I saved.
President Lee offered to help you believing that it will also be a good experience for my future. For your son too, she suggested he study Traditional Chinese Medicine for both himself and JADAM. You accepted her idea and sent your son to the school.
After graduating from university, I worked hard, unlike people who live off donations. I also never over-consumed when I had money. I had quite a lot of savings. JADAM’s salary was much lower than Ministry of Foreign Affairs but I agreed to work with YS. I did not work for JADAM for money.
This is what I checked with President Lee. You asked how much my salary should be. That was the first mention of money. President Lee said YS should decide, and YS said it was difficult to give much. You intervened, said JADAM can pay about 2,000 dollars and added that you know that is too little to hire a talent like me. President Lee said Rei does not work for money. YS said he will increase salary every year so that it can match Rei’s ability. You agreed. That is how President Lee remembers it.
After I joined the three people in conversation, what you told me was exactly same as this. You bragged in big voice, laughing, about how you acquired a talented person at a low price in front of me. Please do not make up stories just because President Lee was alone when she talked to you two. What YS mentioned about my salary after I started working in JADAM also matches the above situation.
2) THE BEGINNING OF MISTRUST
Rei Yoon does not have farming experience. When I visited his very small farm 3 years ago, it was hard to find crops. I asked Rei Yoon to visit my farm several times. When he finally came, he stayed there for 30 minutes in the daytime.
I did not have a farm three years ago. I was doing little soil experiments in a small space in a friend’s farm. I was not growing crops. YS frequently criticized his father for not having any farming experience. Please do not point your fingers at me as your fingers are pointing at your YS and his father at the same time. Also, do you not know that I have farmed and researched in Canada for three years after I met you?
You are X. I visited the small farm in Daejeon because YS wanted to “take pictures of the staff in the farm.” I only stayed short time, just to take pictures. Of course, you would not know.
As the time goes by, I got to know something astonishing fact about Rei Yoon. He rarely asks me questions about farming. JADAM researchers who have been with me for more than 10 years ask questions frequently.
I am sure you are X. How can YS not know about how much I asked him about farming and we enjoyed many interesting conversations? However, that is limited to the early period of our relations. I stopped asking YS questions sometime last year. Because he displayed discomfort with my questions. I remember asking him “Why do you say vinegar fermentation is anaerobic in your lecture? It needs oxygen.” He was very upset.
Rei Yoon loves lecturing. So, I gave him an advice that “Rei, if you only give workshops or lectures without knowing how to do farm, your mind will fall into disrepair!”.
I teach with a sense of mission. What I want to do most is not teaching but to work with poor farmers to rehabilitate a degraded land. I study and practice, and teach based on that. When I farm, research, and teach, my mind will fall into happiness and meaning.
Rei Yoon’s reply was ridiculous. He said “That is the reason why, I am going to China to learn farming.” Even though, he gained popularity by giving JADAM lectures, he is going to China to learn farming, not from JADAM Organic Farm. I felt like shit.
When I quit last year, I told YS clearly that it is because “You neither trust nor support me.” I felt like shit. Why would I go to work in JADAM Organic Farm when I know that? How can I go to JADAM farm when you separate me from naïve YS.
I am going to China to work in the field, meet farmers, study organic farming, and experience agriculture of China. It is much more exciting than selling books. I feel much better than being stuck with a president who does not trust or support you because he is tricked by you. He turned into a monster because of you, and even threatens to sue his employee who worked so hard for JADAM.
I gained friends rather than popularity through lectures. I am grateful. Most of all, “JADAM” gained popularity because I gave lectures. Many people in the Philippines are talking about JADAM, JADAM. You take the fruits of my sweat but only desire to destroy me. You encouraged YS to remove me from JADAM projects and tarnish my honor.
3) MISTRUST AT PEAK 1: INSINCERITY OF ENGLISH SUBTITLES WORK
Rei Yoon put English subtitles on my 25 lecture videos which is opened in JADAM English website. He took long time to finish it. When I got to know the subtitle was insincerely done in March, 2018 from my son and daughter who are studying in Canada, I was shocked.
YS trusts his son and daughter more than me, so of course he will believe what they say. They have all the motivation to increase distrust of me. But I do not think your young children know enough English or farming to judge my work. Because I have personally trained your child. YS made me correct her translations. I did it faithfully and taught her English regarding farming. One of my friends had actually worried, “I am sure they will be watching videos where you do interpretation over and over to learn your English.” You remove me because you believe your children are trained?
I gave YS the best English translation of his book he could never dream of. Do you think your children can produce such work? Do not insult me or my work. I even translated YS’s “personal” things out of friendship.
I informed Rei Yoon about it and told him we are going to rework on it. I couldn’t get Rei’s reply.
I was Director of International Operations at that time. But I kept finding out that there were overseas operations that I was not aware of. I did all my work very well but YS was always suspicious. He treated me as an interpreter and some translating machine. He asked too much. I over-worked like some personal secretary. But I held on to the hope that the work I did would help poor farmers.
I think nobody can stay calm when English subtitles on your lecture videos which is going to be published all over the world was insincerely done.
Adding subtitles was not my main job. I translated not only 25 of YS’s lectures but also numerous interview with farmers. I did it to help YS and farmers. When you recruit your next “Director” of International Operations make sure you put in “translating/posting subtitles” as the main job description.
When Rei Yoon was working on English subtitles, he never asked a question.
I know everything YS says, I interpreted it over ten times, what should I ask? I asked a lot when I was translating the book because many things in the Korean book didn’t make sense. But video lectures are quite simple. You have no understanding of translation. Go see amazon reviews of JADAM English book that I translated.
4) MISTRUST AT PEAK 2: INSINCERITY ON HAWAHII PROJECT
I am working on an Agriculture project with Rei Yoo and Kim C S Chang. I recently paid Rei Yoon $5,400 more for Hawaiian Agriculture project except his regular salary.
How dare you mention Hawaii project to me. $5,400 was given to me from Hawaiian government for my contribution to the project according to “Subcontract for JADAM experts.” It was for three months, but actually I had worked on it for two years. I was foolish to make Hawaii project happen for you and YS. I convinced the government which you could never have done. I set up the whole process. I did the research. I shared English material in Korean with the JADAM team. I explained to YS about strategies of pest management. I was there for ten days this February to purchase the sprayers and start spraying.
Then YS removed me from the team without mentioning anything to me. Is he in right mind to secretly contact the government, telling awful things about me, and removing me from the project? That is so embarrassing but he doesn’t seem to know why it is embarrassing. Proper procedure should have been to notify me first, prove my “insincerity”, reach a consensus that my such insincerity is detrimental to the project, and then remove me with consultation with Hawaiian government. I heard even CGNF Hawaii sent multiple letters and notices to a member before removing him. What is your level?
You never did that because I never was insincere. You knew you cannot remove me through proper procedure. That is why your attack is always happening in secret, in the back, in the dark, launched against an innocent person.
Rei Yoon said he will participate Hawaii project fully. I planned the project based on what he claimed. However, he suddenly informed that he can stay in Hawaii only for 5 days a month. When I heard it, I was furious and told him our relationship is over.
I kept asking YS about his plan for Hawaii. After much delay in reply, YS said his wife, his daughter, and I should stay permanently and he would visit from time to time. That was breach of contract because I was supposed to be “working from home” which meant I had freedom of movement. JADAM office is in Korea but I was working in Canada. I suggested I can stay five days a month which is one week, considering weekends. YS was not furious but kindly asked me to reduce my other work. That was April 11, 2017. If you write with YS’s name, check the facts more. YS did not say our relationship was over at that time.
Even though, Rei had to participate Hawaii project, he made 10 JADAM seminar schedules unilaterally around March to April without my permission. Moreover, he told me that he is going to China to learn farming while the project is still on process. He didn’t talk in advance about all these.
Starting this year, I was a part-time worker for JADAM, which meant I can get any other full-time job. This is written in YS’s email. I was invited to the Philippines to give eight, not ten, lectures this year, and I reported about it late due to my personal issue. I told YS that I was going to China when we were in Hawaii. Actually, I have no obligation to tell JADAM where I am going as long as I do my work for JADAM. I notified my going to China while making sure my work for Hawaii project would not be affected.
Hawaii project team decided to remove Rei Yoon from the team after discussion. I informed the government of Hawaii that Rei Yoon is not going to participate the project. Due to his insincerity, my mistrust about him became strong.
Do not lie. I have information that there was no formal discussion within the team. Even if there was a discussion, the process is still flawed because the meeting excluded me. How can you not know proper procedures? YS’s mistrust of me increased due to your evil and YS’s instability.
5) MISTRUST AT PEAK 3: PROMOTING CONTRACT SECRETLY
Even though, CGNF Hawaii has been working on spreading the knowledge and techniques of Korean Natural Farming (KNF) for 10 years, SARM made an agreement which can drastically reduce activities area of CGNF HAWAII & CGNF HAWAII-I.
Not true. Our agreement has nothing to do with CGNF Hawaii. I explained this so many times I am tired. Read here.
Rei Yoon and Kim C S Chang are close friends. However, he didn’t tell her about it. While the agreement was on process, Rei Yoon stayed around 10 days at Kim C S Chang’s house in March. Rei Yoon stayed at her house for several times before too. Even though, he was beholden to her, he didn’t say a single word about the agreement. The agreement of CGNFI North American branch began on Feb. 5, 2018. As being human, how can he do it? This is UNETHICAL.
I repeat that I did not stay ten days at Kim’s place in March. You took out Pastor Lee because that was a false. Read and study SARM’s twenty points like a text book. If you keep changing minute details but not answer our main points, you will forever be lost. It is president’s responsibility to coordinate between branches of an organization. Your false accusations are UNETHICAL. See here.
According to Rei Yoon, “There was no need to discuss with CGNF Hawaii from the beginning because Hawaii doesn’t belong to North America and SARM never had and will not have an intent to control Hawaii”. This is an irresponsible comment with no deep understanding of the situation. CGNFI North American branch can drastically reduce activities area of CGNF HAWAII & CGNF HAWAII-I.
You are making an irresponsible comment with not even shallow understanding of the situation. CGNFI North American branch does not reduce activities area of CGNF HAWAII & CGNF HAWAII-I. Provide evidence that the contract can “drastically reduce activities area of CGNF Hawaii” instead of repeating empty claims.
6) TREATMENT FOR REI YOON 1: BOUNSES IN ADDITION TO SALARY
Rei Yoon received 70 % for the payment by giving JADAM lecture from me. Moreover, I gave him $10 per JADAM BOOK he sold during JADAM workshop. Is there any CEO who offers this much benefit to an employee?
More important than how much money you give, is how much trust and respect you give. I told you I don’t teach organic farming for money. You requested me to give you 30% of what I earn, just orally, without any legal or other supporting ground. I accepted because I donate anyway, so I thought I was donating to JADAM. However, I feel that money went into your pocket.
You decided to give $10 per book to me as a margin for sales. But I am not a book salesman. I didn’t sell the book with enthusiasm, especially in poor regions. Even if you gave me $100 per book, I’d have done the same. Did you forget that I translated at such a low price?
So, Rei Yoon earned more than $10,000 from several JADAM lectures which were held in Philippine. Moreover, he got $5,400 from Hawaii project, even though he participates only for few days after Hawaii project began.
My seminar in May last year was for free. I did a volunteering work. For October last year, the organizer said it might be difficult to pay so I said I can teach for free. They gave me money but I never asked. This year, I earned 6,000 dollars in the Philippines. Out of eight workshops, one workshop was free for indigenous people in Palawan. In another workshop, I donated all 1,000 dollars back to the region because I had promised to do it for free before I went there. From that 6,000 dollars, I gave 1,800 dollars to you. I donated the remaining 4,200 dollars to non-profit society SARM that I am a member of.
I do not make money from teaching farming or Tai Chi, they all go into charity. That is one of the rules set up by SARM president when founding the organization. All members including President Lee have their job, they volunteer or donate any income from SARM activity. I gladly accepted it because it exactly matches my belief.
I don’t use precious money from farmers personally. I don’t take monthly donation from innocent people who believe in you and use it for personal purposes like eating sashimi and drinking vodka. What was the first thing you did after getting out of debt? You bought a European car for YS. YS said it is a used car and comfortable to sleep in. But when YS went to teach farmers, he parked the car far away from the classroom and walked. SARM President Lee advised you about five times: First, you are an activist that cares for the poor. Better to change the car because expensive European car does not fit in. Second, if you are riding the car for good reasons, do not hide the car, just drive all the way to the classroom.
I repeat the same explanation because you repeat the same issue. $5,400 was given to me from Hawaiian government for my contribution to the project according to “Subcontract for JADAM experts.” It was for three months, but actually I had worked on it for two years. I was foolish to make Hawaii project happen for you and YS. I convinced the government which you could never have done. I set up the whole process. I did the research. I shared English material in Korean with the JADAM team. I explained to YS about strategies of pest management. I was there for ten days this February to purchase the sprayers and start spraying.
7) TREATMENT FOR REI YOON: 5% ADDITIONAL PAYMENT TO TRANSLATOR
I paid around $3,721 for his first translation.
That was ultra-low-cost translation. My standard translation fee is ten times that. I charge from 50 to 300 dollars per page. I don’t do it for 10 dollars. YS has an English translation already which was total rubbish. He said he paid over 15,000 or 30,000 dollars for that translation. You were not there. YS first asked me to translate it for him. Mr. Sangwoo Lee and President Lee were present. I didn’t even ask how much he’d pay, I just refused because I had no time. I was translating another book. Mr and Mrs Lee wanted to help YS, who seemed to be on a path to success. They convinced me to take the job.
JADAM book has been sold in Amazon.com. Since then, I have paid an additional 5% of the amount I received from Amazon.com. Rei Yoon was so happy when the sales increased. Paying the additional 5% is exceptional treatment for translator. There might be no example like this in the world.
YS decided to give 5% on his own, so happy that he got a beautiful book at such an ultra-low cost. I never counted how much money that 5% was. I was happy for your success when book sales increased. I was also happy that my work was helping the people.
That 5% YS brags so much… is not a simple payment for translation. It was given as an appreciation for a friend and comrade who helped at such a low cost. It was an offer of partnership. If I were not working for JADAM but were only a translator, he would never have given me that 5% especially so many months after the translation was finished.
If you see the beginning of JADAM book, you can see “Cover designed by Rei Seungseo Yoon”.
You are showing your shamelessness again. Yes. I did the cover design too. You paid nothing for that.
When Rei was translating my book, he was in Korea with me. He asked me to put his name on the cover of book so I putted his name as translator on the kindle version of JADAM book. You can see the picture which I uploaded.
Can you find one book in the whole world where the translator’s name is missing from the book cover? Your desire to remove me is quite old. Translator never has to “ask” for his name to go in the front page. Translator’s name is not on the front page of the paper book.
Let me add a history about the book title. When you couple came to Vancouver in 2015, you asked our advise on how to spread JADAM overseas and President Lee gave lots of ideas. One day in my car, the topic of YS’s book name came up. YS said he was considering “Ultra-low Cost Agriculture.” SARM President Lee suggested “JADAM Organic Farming” but he still liked “ultra-low cost.” Lee advised him that JADAM needs to be a brand and be advertised. She said “Ultra-low Cost Agriculture” can be added as subtitle. YS was very happy with those ideas. That’s how YS’s title went down as subtitle. Eventually, the name “JADAM Organic Farming” became not only book title but also the name of your company and methodology and activity throughout the English-speaking world. Name was given by President Lee and spread by me. Attacking both people shows that you are inhuman.
8) ABOUT BOOK COPYRIGHT
What Rei Yoon shared in public is not an advertising material made by me. He edited quite a lot based on the advertising material. Moreover, he shared the most important part of JADAM BOOK; recipe of JADAM natural pesticide. He shared 28 pages of JADAM BOOK in public.
JADAM natural pesticide recipe is an open information distributed as pamphlets in Korean. You can download it from JADAM homepage. Don’t the English speaking people deserve the same info? I remember when we discussed whether to open that to English-world, YS is the one that said it should be opened. YS gave me slides, encouraged me to teach, were happy when JADAM spread so fast. Suddenly when you want to attack me, you use it against me. If you had the smallest decency, you should have stopped at just telling me to delete sharing the file. But YS went on to threat to sue me. That is when I clearly understood your intent behind YS. You are playing dirty politics, trying to eliminate me. If I didn’t find the email of YS approving the disclosure of the material, you WOULD HAVE SUED me already.
I don’t think there is an author who don’t get furious when they find their book was in public without their consent. So, I told him that he will have to explain himself to the police. Rei Yoon kept protested but at the end, he admitted the truth that he shared the material without my consent and sent me a written long apology. I cannot ignore this problem just with his written apology.
I admitted the truth that I shared the material WITH YS’s consent. I explained that what I shared was based on open info and things YS agreed to share. I “accepted” his demand to delete that file from everywhere because he was the JADAM boss and I still belonged to JADAM. I did not accept it because what you requested through YS was right.
Also, I never sent YS an apology because I did nothing wrong. Please do not lie. I actually expressed discomfort at being threatened and told YS that “this will be the last time I endure such insult, do not test me further.” I also asked him to stop doing these ugly things and concentrate on helping the environment and the people. I have record of text messages. Stop lying. I sent long written explanation of what happened, how YS gave consent to info-sharing, how my action was legal, what I did to respect YS’s demand to delete. That is not an apology.
YS’s act of threatening to sue his staff will be forever left in his history. His act was instigated by you. Especially when he claims to be the person who brings knowledge back to the farmers through open info-sharing. Again, I have never apologized for this. I suspect that you distorted the facts and actually told Master Cho that I sent a long written apology.
I opened all of my methods in public without patenting. I even released all of videos of my lecture which could make a lot of money. JADAM BOOK is main source of income, I have. I have to pay monthly salary to my employees, and operating expenses. I live every day in tension.
YS cannot monopolize or patent the information. Opening was the second best strategy. Please do not say that you gave up making money by opening. By making that gesture of info-opening, you are collecting 17,000 dollars of donation every month. YS bragged about how he makes 5,000 dollars a day for his lectures. Are they not enough to pay for salary and operating expenses?
You are so wicked. You enjoy the fruits of opening info, the work of info-sharers. Now, when you think it is time to crack down, you persecute the info-sharers. I am not saying copyright is bad. I am saying you have to maintain a coherent position, announce a clear rule before you display your knowledge, and discard that sinister opportunistic attitude.
I told him clearly that “I prohibit you from sharing the advertising materials which was edited by you in public and lecturing with the edited material”. Rei Yoon replied “I got it. I will do as you say”.
I accepted because I worked for JADAM at that time, not because what YS said was right. What YS is saying is nonsense, even illegal. He is telling me that I cannot edit “advertising” materials and cannot teach based on that. What right do you have to restrict my right to access and use information?
I WILL STRONGLY COPE WITH PEOPLE WHO USED PICTURES OF MINE, THE PHOTOS FROM JADAM WEBSITE, AND JADAM MATERICALS WITHOUT MY CONSENT AND PEOPLE WHO MODIFIED, PLAGIARIZED, AND REPRINTED JADAM BOOK OR JADAM MATERIALS. Protecting copyright of name, photos, and book of JADAM is the most important to maintain JADAM.
Use of capitalized letters sure seems powerful. Good luck. In my opinion, opening the info was most important to maintain JADAM. It is not money from selling books. You do not understand the tension between opening and closing. You cannot simply take all the sweet fruits and not bear its price.
9) THINGS REI YOON USES
The smart phone which Rei Yoon is currently using is LG V20 (around $1,000) which I bought and gave it to him. Two laptops which he used to upload the posts in Facebook also which I bought it for him. I bought many expensive shoes, clothes and bags for him. Rei! Return it.
Why do you not mention business cards, internet phone, watch, and the box of mackerel you sent to my parents? You sent me a laptop because I was supposed to work from home. I did enormous amount of work that YS asked and translated tremendous amount of material with that computer. I once just said I like big monitor. Next thing I knew, you sent me a bigger laptop. I was surprised. Problem is that I worked so much on these computers that they are not in good condition. I used up most of the business cards too. I am thinking how to return all these back to you, the problem is the fish that my parents ate already.
I could understand you sending me office items. But gifts always felt uncomfortable. I always refused but YS and you insisted that I receive them. It didn’t feel like pure gift between friends. I was right. You are asking to return gifts. Do you not realize how base that looks? You lost any sense of discernment and judgment.
Do you charge your employees in Korea for the computers and phones? They are supplied by the employer. I remember YS’s expression when he said he was sorry to make me work with such low salary when he gave me those things.
Why don’t you ask President Lee to return the “Chairperson of Advisory Committee” business card and computer? Can you not say it because you received so much more than you gave? Mr. Lee and President Lee gave a lot of gifts and treated many expensive meals for YS to cheer him. You and your children were treated as VIP just because you were his family. Do you plan to return all that?
President Lee was extremely kind to YS ever since he was having a tough time of his life in an abandoned school in Hadong. I remember President Lee preparing a Chanel perfume as a gift for you when we went to see him. In 2010, President Lee left Korea for good for personal reasons. Among the list of must-see people was included Master Cho. After seeing him, I told her that Master Cho’s son has separated from his father, is doing research in organic but the results were not good, were in debt, and had no house. She went all the way to a remote village in Hadong to see YS. On that day too, President Lee advised YS to make up with his parents.
President Lee was very kind to you. She told me that “family suffers more.” She doesn’t wear make-ups but she bought luxurious one for you because she did not want you to feel left out, living in the countryside without a house. YS was deeply touched by President Lee. She treated him with a good meal. He drank and got emotional, repeatedly saying, “I will succeed. I will.”
When President Lee heard later that he became successful, she was happy as if it were her own news. YS expressed his wish to treat President Lee who came all the way to Hadong to cheer him, when he was at the lowest point of his life. So YS came to Seoul from Daejeon, and President Lee met him for the second time. That’s when Mr. Sangwoo Lee met YS, and the translation of book was decided. You were not there.
YS said that after President Lee visited him, things went so well that he became a prince from a beggar in an instant. He said he felt many times that the good luck came from her. He wanted to call her “Godmother.” Below is his poem sent to me in May 2015, after meeting President Lee third time in Canada:
This feeling is indescribable
As if I came down from a mountain
With grace (Christian term)
Thank you
Especially to Godmother
The time spent with warm hearts
I have seen the spring of
Tranquility, peace, and hope
In my rough journey of life
Let us walk like destiny!
This is the beautiful friendship that started between YS, President Lee, and me. You could not accept this growing of love. You decided to act to destroy it. X! You can have all the gifts I gave you. But return the friendship among beautiful people!
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLIq2dhpu34qkIyyaeEGxw
JADAM ENGLISH WEBSITE: http://en.jadam.kr/news/articleList.html…
(You can see the lecture video with English subtitle from JADAM English website.)
10) I DON’T HAVE DESIRE TO HAVE ALL RIGHT OF CGNF/CGNFI AND I DIDN’T PLAN ALL THESE MESS.
Rei Yoon wrote a story based on his assumptions that I “wanted all requests for KNF workshops, permission to use CGNF/CGNFI name/logo to flow into their channel” (From Rei Yoon’s final statement). As Master Cho mentioned through video, I am going to manage the copyright of CGNF & CGNFI for TEMPORARY and I will HAND OVER all rights to CGNF Hawaii.
The warning statement says “if anyone would like to use the name and associated logo of CGNF or CGNFI to educate or publish certificates, please contact jadamorganic@gmail.com.” Time will tell us how you manage the copyright of CGNF.
I am too busy with JADAM. I think it would be more desirable if CGNF Hawaii succeed everything Master Cho has accumulated and they achieve harmony with JADAM.
You spoke in so many places that your theory is superior to Master Cho’s. You always publicly criticized your father’s theory. Now you are selling your book in CGNF Hawaii’s homepage right next to your father’s.
I didn’t plan all these. I am not interested in the copyright of CGNF/CGNFI. Therefore, it doesn’t make sense that I planned all these. I only mediated a dispute.
Yes. YS did not plan all these. You had interest in copyright, and you planned all this. YS was only faithful to his role given by you, not knowing how much that will destroy him. Putting JADAM’s official email in a warning statement that defames individuals is mediation? Using father to attack us publicly on a video is mediation? YS created the dispute without knowing. We know YS is not interested in copyright of CGNF/CGNFI and did not plan the dispute. We know that you planned and carried out the dispute in order to destroy President Lee and me.
Master Cho said he put in the names in the warning statement. That is not true. I have evidence of how names were put into the warning statement and why one person was deleted. You had strong enough influence over Master Cho to be able to remove a person.
Rei! Stop making drama! Rei Yoon sent a resignation letter on June 4, 2018. If Rei Yoon was working in SARM from Jan. 2016, he had to resign from JADAM long time ago because he was a JADAM full-time employee during that time. Rei Yoon became insincere from last year so I told him “You are thinking of your job in JADAM as a sideline”.
X! Stop making drama! I am a member of SARM but I never worked there as an employee. I never had other full-time job while I was working full-time for JADAM. SARM’s purpose is charity. It is different from YS’s company which is a private business disguised as social enterprise. I did not become insincere from last year, YS became weird. I think it is your influence. When YS said I regard JADAM as a sideline job, I was very upset and insulted because I was working SO HARD. YS knew how hard I worked but erased that memory because of you. There is no need to debate. Just look at the achievements that I brought to JADAM.
It was okay with Rei Yoon until last year. Rei was once my best drinking buddy. This is unfortunate that our relationship is over like this. I think it happened when he started to prepare to establish CGNFI North American branch.
You said I became insincere “from last year” and then you said I was okay “until last year.” You use any word you want to attack me, regardless it makes sense or not. Please realize how you hurt others with groundless vitriol. You believe you can do whatever you want, destroy whoever you hate. That is not normal.
I really was YS’s best drinking buddy. Not only YS but I am also sad that our relation ends like this. Establishing CGNF branch was a happy process. Previously, Master Cho and YS were on bad terms, and I was in an awkward position. The two seems to have reconciled now. Then I should also be happy because I am friend of both CGNF and JADAM. How is it that helping CGNF through President Lee brings an end to relation with YS? It’s because of you.
Rei! You shouldn’t threaten to sue your close friends and Master Cho in public.
Telling you that we will resort to legal measures is not a threat when that is the only way to stop your crime. If that “close friends” is YS, you made YS inform that he would sue an employee who shared an open info for the company. That is a threat. What I did was legal, but I corrected it immediately because he requested. There is no way to correct you. That’s when we need law.
You manipulated Master Cho into signing an illegal document and reading a problematic statement in a video. That put him in risk of being sued. But we never thought of suing Master Cho.
Good-bye, Rei Yoon.
Good-bye X.
Thank you for resigning in advance.
I am sorry I resigned before you could fire me. You done enough sin in firing people by removing Pastor Lee.
YS, please rethink this whole situation with a cool head. You are destroying yourself and your father. NOBODY on Facebook supports you. JADAM’s reputation has fallen to the ground internationally. Why? Because of X. I sometimes feel there are two Xs. Do not become as ugly as X who brings in her own children into the sewer. You were once my father-like brother. I ask that you return to a pure-hearted passionate young activist that you once were.
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영국 데번주 다팅턴에 있는 슈마허대학은 규모는 작지만 특별한 커리큘럼, 뛰어난 교수진 등으로 최근 주목받고 있는 ‘순환경제’ ‘로컬경제’ ‘생태경제’ ‘가이아경제’ 등 새로운 경제담론들의 중심에 서 있다. 사진은 역사를 자랑하듯 고색창연한 슈마허대학의 강의동이다. ⓒ안희경
명저 <작은 것이 아름답다>로도 유명한 에른스트 슈마허.
슈마허대학 토대를 다진 타고르와 엠허스트.
주류 경제에 맞서 지속 가능한 삶과 대안적 경제를 추구하는 슈마허대학의 정신을 보여주듯 슈마허대학의 교수진과 학생들은 강의실·도서관에서의 치열한 ‘머리 공부’는 물론 농장에서 온몸으로 땀 흘려 농사를 짓는 ‘몸 공부’를 병행하고 있다. 사진은 악기를 연주하며 휴식을 즐기는 학생들. ⓒ안희경
슈마허대학 구성원들이 직접 농사를 짓는 농장.
