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Bringing Cheer this holiday season - CHRISTMAS Orphanage drive 3
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Jeju furey Takes the stage for its first ever improv event!
On December 14, Jeju Furey hosted another first-ever event - Improv! Wonderful hosts, Shannon Warren and Yolandi Rademeyer, pulled together some of Jeju's bravest and most eager performers and tested their comedic skills with a variety of Improv games including Scenes from a Garbage Bag and Who's Line is it Anyway? skits. Participant Huw Coverdale Jones showed off his individual with some stand-up comedy.
With 16 participants and a little over 60 people in attendance, host venue, The Factory, was packed with those looking for a laugh - and they got it! A special thanks to The Factory and the volunteers who made delicious snacks for the auction snack table including Dominic Lister, Dominique Le Breton, Cynthia Loiselle, and Elle Lucademo. All the efforts together made for another successful event and thank you to Emily Baker and Elizabeth Holbrook for being great volunteers and thank you to Thu Van Ho and Calvin Lewis for the pictures videos of our first Improv night which raised 506,000krw. |
Teaming up: Jeju furey and the JDC
In November, representing the JDC, long-time Furey supporter Albert Oh approached Jeju Furey with a great idea; to join forces again (as they had with Jeju Art Fest in 2011) to help raise money for Christmas Orphanage Drive 3. The JDC was aiming for new ideas for a social welfare program and wanted to find a place in the community where they could focus their efforts. Once again, Albert's passion and skills pulled through and the idea of helping out the upcoming Christmas Orphanage Drive was pitched and approved. Through various meetings and discussions it was decided that the JDC would hold an inter-corporate bowling tournament as way to promote team building within the involved sectors and investors and also raise money that could be used to help benefit the orphanage drive. On December 7, the JDC hosted the bowling tournament and invited Furey to join. It was a great day getting to know each other and building relationships between Jeju Furey and the JDC. The money that was raised was also revealed --- but here...that will be revealed in our Christmas Orphanage Drive 3 wrap-up. :-)
A big thank you to the JDC, Albert Oh, the Berjaya Jeju Resort(Malaysian Corporate building resort in Seogwipo), the Greenland Group (Chinese Corporate building medical cluster in Seogwipo. As well as to those representing the Furey and foreigner community: Tom Summers, Myles Horne, Mary Summers, Jessie Dishaw, Jay Mohammed, Zandi Nel, Taylor Fowler, Timo LaTour, Joseph Atkins, and Billy Fidanovski. |
Hitting the Target:
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A Great Kick-Off for Fall:
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Jeju Furey's 10th Beach Volleyball Tournament!
The weekend of October 12-13 brought beautiful skies, perfect weather, and 32 volleyball loving teams to Hamdeok Beach for Jeju Furey's 10th Beach Volleyball Tournament.
With 32 teams, 192 participants, and 15 volunteers, the weekend was Furey's largest fall BVB tournament.
Thanks to everyone who donated, participated, played, picked up, helped out, sponsored, and were just awesome people leading up to and during this event, we were able to raise 4,252,280krw for the families!
Click here for all the details and pictures from this fantastic weekend!
With 32 teams, 192 participants, and 15 volunteers, the weekend was Furey's largest fall BVB tournament.
Thanks to everyone who donated, participated, played, picked up, helped out, sponsored, and were just awesome people leading up to and during this event, we were able to raise 4,252,280krw for the families!
Click here for all the details and pictures from this fantastic weekend!
Swingin' in the Sand at Swing BVB 4 - September 14, 2013
On September 14, 2013, twelve teams arrived at Hamdeok Beach with black clouds over head. Although the wind and rain came pouring down at the start of Swing BVB 4, the teams stuck it out, played through rain and shine, and had a fabulous day! A big thank you to our sponsors, Mongni for the beach balls, TGrimm for A-Champ T-shirts, and Sofia's Kitchen for our delicious lunches! Other huge thanks goes to Myles Horne and Gayon Yang, our MCs for the day, Karma Lee Cunning and Eric Sweet for their help with beer sales and clean-up. Thank you to all of our volunteers - we couldn't have done it without you! We also had special guest photographers, 느렁태 and 김병일 who took some amazing pictures of our awesome day! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Congratulations to our bracket winners:
A-Bracket Champions: Borean Mamba and the 5 Honkies
B-Bracket Champions: Dadigers/다디저스
Thanks to everyone who came out and played, watched, and helped out with the fourth annual Swing Tournament and for keeping up great spirits regardless of the weather. Together your efforts raised 1,318,000krw. The proceeds from this tournament will be going to "giving back" to Hamdeok beach and the community by installing permanent courts.
Congratulations to our bracket winners:
A-Bracket Champions: Borean Mamba and the 5 Honkies
B-Bracket Champions: Dadigers/다디저스
Thanks to everyone who came out and played, watched, and helped out with the fourth annual Swing Tournament and for keeping up great spirits regardless of the weather. Together your efforts raised 1,318,000krw. The proceeds from this tournament will be going to "giving back" to Hamdeok beach and the community by installing permanent courts.
Jeju Furey 'Shoots' for the stars with its first ever PHOTO HUNT!
On August 31, 2013 Jeju Furey hosted the FIRST EVER PhotoHunt. Five teams met at 9am, were given a list of photo challenges to complete before returning by the 6pm deadline. With 50 challenges requiring props, ingenuity, and lots of interactions with strangers, the teams were racing against the clock, their own creativity, and the other teams.
At 6pm the teams reconvened at La Vie for drinks, laughter, the showing and judging of all the photos. The photos were all judged on technicalities (did they complete the requirements) and then a random drawing of 5 photos were judged by the teams. The points were tallied and winner was: Team PEACOCK!!! Congratulations! An additional Photo Challenge was optional for the teams to complete. A three-picture set showing what Jeju Furey means to your team. The two teams to complete this challenge were The Peeping Toms and 김치주세요. In a very tight judging, the winners were The Peeping Toms. Congratulations Peeping Toms! Together the teams and our sponsors La Vie and Momaejon Garden, raised 220,000krw! After the passing on of our faithful truck, the proceeds from this event will go towards new transportation to help keep all the Furey events going.....Way to go everyone! Check out the "Jeju Furey Photo Hunt 'Best Of'" album below: |
A Generous Gift
Back in June, the beautiful and talented Sarah Yaroslasky approached Furey's acting president Mary Summers with a personal endeavor that she wanted to use to benefit the Furey Foundation. She had created an amazing play and was in the production process with a group of four actors from the Jeju expat community. Her dream was to do a one-night showing of the play that would promote the arts as well as benefit the families of Jeju Furey.
After months of hard work, the play was already looking amazing and Jeju Furey welcomed the association with such a fabulous project. With promotional help from Jeju Furey, Sarah and her cast set a date, time, and place for the show. On July 27, 2013, Karima Walker, Shannon Warren, Paul Hughes, and Sarah Ranco took the stage under their director's (Sarah Y.'s) guidance, and gave a stellar performance to a packed house (over 100 in attendance) at the Jeju Stone Park. Sarah Y. then came to Mary with the fabulous news - through ticket sales and food donations, and after costs, SUPER! was donating the 1,080,000krw proceeds it made to Jeju Furey! Thank you to Sarah Y., the cast of Super!, and all those who helped for such a generous gift and for a fabulous night at the theater! |
A visit with the Furey families
On July 14, acting president Mary Rager Summers, Tom Summers, Kaylee Summers, and Furey Executive 부정현 (Boo Jeong Hyun) met with Mr. Kang of the St. Vincent de Paul Society to visit the families, check in on them, and deliver 5 MILLION won (5,000,000krw = apprx 5,000USD) to each family.
It was the first meeting between Mary and the families and it was a touching one. "Both families were so sweet and you could see in their faces, in their smiles, how appreciative they were to us and all of those involved in Furey," recalled Mary. We learned that the father of our Nohyeong family was recently approved for a surgery that will hopefully greatly improve his quality of life. Both father and son were very excited at the news and then even more excited (and relieved!) at Jeju Furey's donation that will help fund this surgery! Later in the week, Jeju Furey found out that the cost of the surgery would be around 4,000,000krw and that after the surgery a caretaker would be needed to aid in recovery; at a cost of 1,600,000krw. Thanks to the hard work of everyone who participates with Furey, almost all of the medical expenses for this surgery are covered. Such wonderful news!!! On the way to the families' homes, Mr. Kang also expressed his gratitude and awe for Jeju Furey and the generosity we share with those in need on the island. So if you've ever wondered...yes, Furey's efforts are not only recognized, they are greatly appreciated. 
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A smashing badminton 3 - June 22, 2013
Jeju Furey held its third badminton tournament on Saturday, June 22. For the first time in Furey badminton history, the tournament was not tormented by typhoons or torrential rains! With cooperative weather, delicious sandwiches from Jihyon (Sofia) Kim, 16 teams totaling 32 players engaged in some head to head combat leading into the wee hours of the night. Together the teams, volunteers, and our wonderful sponsor, Bagdad Cafe, helped to bring in 490,200krw for our families in need. Read more...
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Changing of the Guards
After BVB9 it was soon time for acting-president Sara Sokola to move on to a new journey. With her departure, and Dan's continued absence while finishing his Master's degree, a new acting-president had to be instated. Welcome to our new acting-president - Mary Summers.
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BVB 9 was another volleying success - May 25-26, 2013
Jeju Furey's largest tournament, beach volleyball, was another huge success this year. Tying BVB7 for the largest number of teams registered in BVB history, 34 teams battled it out to be crowned champion of BVB9. Over 3million won of donated raffle prizes, delicious homemade foods from Stephanie, Miriah, and JiHyon, and perfect weather helped BVB9 to bring in 5,127,110krw for our families in need.
Congratulations to our division winners: A-Bracket Champions: Let's Have a Kiki A-Bracket Runners Up: Block Around the Clock B-Bracket Champions: Setters of Catan C-Bracket Champions: Drink and Dive D-Bracket Champions: LU$H Crew Thank you to all of our sponsors, volunteers, and participants. Without all of you this tournament would not have been the success it was! |
Jeju Furey's First Ever Ping-Pong Tournament - April 27, 2013
Stephen Smith and Erin Myers took the wheel and drove Jeju Furey into another new direction with the first ever ping-pong tournament. With 16 teams playing ping-pong and having fun, Jeju Furey was able to raise 580,000krw for the families!
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Furey hits a bullseye with first Darts Tournament - April 7, 2013
Sachin Mahajan took his love for darts and his love for Furey and melted them together to host the year's first, and Furey's newest, event. With 16 teams in attendance, the tournament, its mini-games and raffle prizes brought in 670,000krw for the Furey Foundation.
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