Adrian Hong currently serves as director of the Pegasus Project, an initiative that uses cutting edge technology to penetrate closed societies and empower people in those nations to communicate amongst themselves, and with the outside world. In December of 2006, he was arrested in the People's Republic of China and imprisoned before being released and deported for sheltering and moving North Korean refugees sought by the Chinese and North Korean governments. He was a visiting lecturer in 2008, teaching "America, Human Rights, and Foreign Policy" at Korea's Ewha University, and he is a TED Senior Fellow.