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Global passion beats the heat, as the Dankook International Summer School ends in success
Writer 글로벌전략팀 김유인
Date 2018.10.02
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Amid record-breaking high temperatures this summer, around 410 foreign students with various nationalities made special memories at Dankook University. The students from 48 universities across 22 countries including the U.S., Canada, the UK, Hong Kong and Hungary took part in the 2018 DKU International Summer School. 



The DKU International Summer School (hereinafter DKU ISS), which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year after starting in 2009, is a short-term globalization program where students from abroad spend the summer at Dankook University along with DKU students.



DKU ISS is composed of the Global Village, Academic Program and Korean Immersion Program. This year, 260 foreign and Dankook students attended the Global Village and Academic Program from June 19 to August 3.


The Global Village, which kick started DKU ISS 2018, is a foreign language and cultural exchange program where one foreign student is grouped with three to five DKU students to learn from each other. DKU students choose a language they wish to learn and then are matched with native speaking students. They can choose from English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, German, Portuguese or Arabic.



The Academic Program is the most popular of the programs among foreign students. In addition to formal studies, the program takes students out of the classroom to give them the opportunity to get hands-on experience with Korean culture by experiencing a temple stay, attending the mud festival, visiting the Joint Security Area (JSA), making Korean pottery, or trying K-POP dance, Korean traditional dance and taekwondo. 





Meanwhile, 148 students from the U.S., China, Sweden, Hungary and Japan came and roamed the Dankook campus as they took part in the Korean Immersion Program (KIP) which kicked off on July 31. Students enjoyed various programs such as learning Korean language and traditional culture during their stay that lasted until August 23 and made many unforgettable and lasting memories. 


Dankook’s Office of International Affairs works closely with relevant academic departments and external institutions with a focus on Korean culture to offer a diverse program that includes musicals, pottery classes, temple stays, kimchi making classes and the mud festival to enhance foreign students’ understanding of Korean culture.