April 15th, 2011 @Seoul
The Big Issue Korea has begun with some members of Street Angel, which is NPO organization working for homeless people for 14 years.
Jin Moo Doo is one of the former members of it and the current director of the sales and marketing division of TBIK.
During his working with Street Angel, he couldn’t help realizing that homeless people are not treated as human being. The government seemed just confined them in shelters as prisoners. Right after bumping into The Big Issue, Jin thought this magazine would be a solution for this problem.
After one-year preparatory period, TBIK got launched in April 2010. The government statistics said that there were 5500 people living as homeless, however, Jin thinks the number will four though twenty times more than that, if you count people living vulnerable.
Since the day they started TBIK, Jin has never stopped walking his path.