June 19-July 5, 2007

Nineteen participants visited Korea for this, the 19th annual program in the series. Accompanied by program coordinator Yong Jin Choi, the fellowship got underway with a half-day orientation session, including visits (by subway) to the Chonggyechon park and bookstores in downtown Seoul. The following day, the fellows visited the Folk Museum and the Leeum Museum of Art. They were joined at dinner by fellowship participants from Australia and New Zealand.

April 1-10, 2007 

This program was implemented in Korea for a group of ten participants accompanied by Yong Jin Choi, senior director of Korean studies at The Korea Society, and Mark Peterson, professor of Korean studies at Brigham Young University. The ten participants consisted of American educators from across the professional spectrum: two K-12 teachers, three administrators from state departments of education, two outreach educators, two professors and one educational consultant. This diverse group embarked on a study tour of Korea, beginning in the northwest and traveling to the southeast coast. The tour visited five major cities: Seoul, Suwon, Ch'ongju, Kyongju and Ulsan.

October 6-15, 2006

This program was implemented in Korea for a group of ten participants accompanied by Yong Jin Choi, senior director of Korean studies at The Korea Society, and Mark Peterson, professor of Korean studies at Brigham Young University. This year's fall fellows were education specialists from across the sector and across America. They included five textbook editors, two academics, an editorial consultant, a marketing manager and an educational outreach coordinator for a major museum. Beginning in Seoul, the group traveled throughout South Korea, learning (through a hands-on approach) about Korean history and culture, and how both are relevant to their work. The participants arrived at Incheon International Airport on October 6 and spent the afternoon at their hotel with Mark Peterson briefing them on what to expect from their trip. A late afternoon visit to the National Museum was followed by the fellows' first encounter with authentic Korean food at dinner. Fellows spent the first few days of the study tour at the Academy of Korean Studies, attending lectures on Korea's geography and Korean art. Interspersed with the lectures were field trips to Leeum Museum, Kyongbok Palace and King Sejong's tomb in Yoju. The study tour departed Seoul on October 9. Traveling south to Suwon, the fellows visited Samsung Electronics History Hall and spent the night at the Samsung Human Resources Center.  Over the following days, the tour visited the Early Printing Museum in Chongju, the Unmunsa Buddhist nunnery near Taegu and the Haien Buddhist monastery, where the group joined Korean worshippers in a religious ritual and visited the repository of the Tripitaka Koreana. Before arriving back in Seoul on October 14, the fellows also visited Sokkuram, Pulkuk Sa and Yangdong Village.

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