Offer various global experience opportunities such as sending 120 overseas volunteers to 14 countries
Support 1 million won to 2.5 million won in university expenses per student
[December 29, 2011]
Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) will provide global experience opportunities to over 500 students during this winter vacation. In order to help students with expenses, university expenses from one million to 2.5 million won will be provided for each student.
Launching Ceremony of the 22nd YU Glocal Volunteer Corps
As part of this, Yeungnam University held a launching ceremony for the 22nd YU Glocal Volunteer Corps at the main conference room on the 3rd floor of the Law Library in the morning of the 29th. The Yeungnam University Overseas Volunteer Program, which is in its tenth year this year, has been conducted together with UNESCO and International Work Camp from 2010. This is the only university in the region to do so, and even in Korea, it is the third. During the winter vacation, 120 overseas volunteers will be sent to 14 countries in Central and South America, Africa and Asia, such as Mexico, Peru, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Vietnam, India, Thailand, Philippines, and Laos for two to three weeks, and exercise ‘love without borders’.
Another overseas program supported by the university is ‘Window To the World WTW’. Because the university provides the round-trip airfare for a backpacking trip planned by the student, it is very popular and the competition ratio was 6 to 1. Since its beginning in 2002 to this year’s summer vacation, about 1,400 students experienced the world through WTW. During this winter vacation, over 80 students in groups of two to three will set off to different parts of the world for two to three weeks.
The OPP (Outbound Pilot Program) is another proud overseas program supported by Yeungnam University. After selecting freshmen and sophomore students who are interested in studying abroad, they are given concentrated English education for 10 weeks during the school semester, and then offered a chance to study English abroad for five weeks during vacation. By doing so, they are able to thoroughly prepare for exchange student programs, which are available from their junior year. In this winter vacation, 170 students will be sent to the Philippines and Australia via the OPP.
An additional 130 or so students will be sent overseas through the ‘Global Challenge Program’ in which students are supported with university expenses to participate in overseas competitions and international conferences, Short-term English Language Courses at the Alabama State University and University of Nebraska Omaha Campus that are held for eight weeks, one-week Culture Education Program at Meiji University and University of Miyazaki in Japan, and Program for the Visit to Leading Chinese Corporations in which students visit Korean companies and leading Chinese companies in Shanghai and Suzhou, China. Thus, a total of over 500 Yeungnam University students will set off to experience the world.
On this, Lee, Hyo-soo, president of Yeungnam University, stated, “Vacations are the best opportunities to train one’s global mind and qualities as a cosmopolitan, and thus, we will provide utmost support so that more students will have this opportunity.”
