The East Asia Institute and the Korea Foundation jointly held the Korea Friendship Gala and Foreigners Night on August 24th at the Kukdo Hotel, Seoul. This event concluded this summer’s KF-EAI Korea Friendship program for foreign students studying in Korea.

 

The event was in part a completion ceremony for those who successfully completed the KF-EAI Korea Friendship program, and partly a networking and social gathering for Korea Friendship alumni, who were delegated as being “honorary ambassadors” for Korea. A further aim was to promote mutual understanding of various groups in Korea and encourage cultural exchange including foreign students residing in Korea.

 

The East Asia Institute, in collaboration with the Korea Foundation, as part of efforts towards public diplomacy, held the KF-EAI Korea Friendship educational program from July 10th until August 24th, 2017. The KF-EAI Korea Friendship program was an event designed for one hundred foreign students studying in Korea. It included special lectures related to topics on Korea, an academic conference, and opportunities to network with people from Korea and various other countries, and sought to foster friendship towards Korea among future global leaders. The program revolved around three axes: (1) “Academicus”: An eight-part lecture series focused on learning about Korea; (2) “Communicus”: An essay contest and academic conference; (3) “Empathicus”: Networking with participants and others from Korea and all over the world.

 

 

Program

 

 

 

 

Emcee	Mr. Jiwon Ra(East Asia Institute) and Mihrayeva Guzal (a participant in the 5th KF-EAI Korea Friendship program)
18:00-18:05	Opening Address Jung-Sok Song, Director-General of the International Cooperation Bureau 2 at the Korea Foundation
18:05-18:10	Welcoming Address Yul Sohn, Chair of the Center for Japan Studies at the East Asia Institute; Professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS)
18:10-18:15	Video presentation of KF-EAI 2017 Korea Friendship
18:15-18:20	"Best Kof" Award ceremony
18:20-18:50	Completion ceremony for KF-EAI Korea Friendship participants
18:50-18:55	Inauguration of the 5th KF-EAI Korea Friendship alumni class
18:55-19:00	Presentation about the KF International Student Fellowship (ISF), a group for foreign students in Korea Komilov Bekhzod ISF representative of Seoul National University
19:00-20:00	Dinner and Networking
20:00-20:30	Performances
20:30	Closing