Fostering Vietnam - South Korea Relations Through Summer Volunteer Programs

During the summer of 2024, numerous student volunteer groups from South Korean universities traveled to Vietnam. They engaged in various volunteer activities and cultural exchanges, which played a significant role in strengthening and expanding the friendship between the two nations.
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From August 5-9, through the collaboration of the Vinh Long Union of Friendship Organizations and the Asia Exchange Association (AEA/South Korea), over 20 HUFS University volunteer students visited Hoa Tinh B Primary School in Hoa Tinh Commune, Mang Thit District. They engaged in classroom painting and gifted items to the students. The project was funded with more than 203 million VND (around 8,000 USD) from AEA's non-refundable aid.

For the sixth consecutive summer, the volunteer student group from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in South Korea has visited Vinh Long.

The students spread joy among the primary schoolers with lessons in music, science, sports, and Korean culture.

According to Euna Ko, Director of AEA/South Korea, through the initiative, AEA aims for students to acquire greater life experience and skills via a range of experiential activities. It also seeks to enhance understanding about Korea among students, teachers, and the community, thereby deepening the Vietnam-South Korea friendship.

"Over the years, my fellow students and I have been delighted to visit the schools and receive the warm welcome and genuine support from the people here."

"This is also why AEA and the schools selected Vinh Long as the location for implementing the non-project previously," stated Euna Ko.

Experiencing the delight of cultural exchange between the two countries, Kim Min Jae expressed, "While engaging in school activities, I found great joy in introducing Korean culture to the children; in turn, they taught us Vietnamese folk games. My time here was filled with laughter!"

According to the Vinh Long Union of Friendship Organizations, the non-project "Supporting exchange, giving gifts to students and renovating Hoa Tinh B Primary School (Mang Thit)" aims to create conditions to support gifts for the school's students, helping them have more joy and motivation to strive to excel in their studies; at the same time, practice more knowledge, life skills, exchange more understanding of each other's cultures through cultural exchange programs, mutual learning and diverse experiential activities during the implementation process.

Fostering Vietnam - South Korea Relations Through Summer Volunteer Programs
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From June 24 to July 2, 2024, the Summer International Volunteer Group from Kookmin University, in collaboration with the Vietnam-Korea Cultural Exchange Center, visited Vietnam to engage in an environmental protection initiative at Thanh Dong University in Hai Duong. The group's activities included environmental education through Design Thinking, plastic recycling and reuse, wall painting, and cultural exchange between Vietnam and South Korea.

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Throughout six days of events, students, union members, and youth from both groups engaged in various activities. These included decorating reading rooms, gardening, tree planting, launching the friendship bench project, creating a friendship flower garden, organizing children's activities, visiting and learning at the Lawyer Nguyen Huu Tho Memorial Site, exploring the Long An Monument Park of Courage and Resilience, and participating in cultural exchanges through making banh tet and preparing Korean and Vietnamese dishes.

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