On 8 September, 138 students from Sungbo Middle School participated in the Centre’s online School Tour Program. The program opened with greetings from Lee Kyeong-a, Director of ASEAN Hall, who gave the welcoming remarks and lecture on ASEAN and international organizations. Afterwards, the students applied their new knowledge of ASEAN through the Golden Bell Quiz and had a highly interactive Q&A discussion session with the ASEAN officials from Malaysia and Laos. The officials introduced their respective countries to the students and shared intriguing discussions on their choice of career paths, cultural shock experiences in Korea, and representative cultural symbols of each country. To wrap up the program, the students completed their ASEAN Map puzzles.

The following is a testimonial from a student:

“I enjoyed listening to the ASEAN officials’ lectures on their own countries and having discussion time with them.”

The ASEAN-Korea Centre organizes the School Tour and Youth Visit Program with the aim of raising the awareness of ASEAN and ASEAN-Korea partnership among youths from primary school to university level.

Under the Ministry of Education’s initiative, ‘Ggoomgil’, the Centre has been offering the ASEAN School Tour programs that provide students, not only Korean but also students from all ASEAN Member States, with the opportunities to experience cultural aspects of ASEAN Member States and gives a glimpse of the potential career at an intergovernmental organization.

In the situation of COVID-19, the Centre is conducting the visit programs in strict compliance with the preventive measure guidelines and taking thorough disinfection and sterilization measures for each visit.

If you are interested in the Centre’s visit programs, please contact the Centre via aseanhall@aseankorea.org or 02-2287-1177