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Jeonju University, Student·Faculty finished Vietnam global volunteering in 2018

-Korea-Vietnam united volunteer group, delivers love and care to Vietnam-

Twenty students and faculty members in Jeonju University conducted volunteer work around Hanoi, Bac Giang, and Namdin in Vietnam for a week from 2 to 9 in this month. This volunteer work formed the Korea-Vietnam united volunteer group with ICC Hanoi Volunteer Group, and was even more meaningful by helping difficult neighbors and shortages with Tuan Hung, a famous singer in Vietnam who is an honorary ambassador of ICC Hanoi.

To ensure a successful Korea-Vietnam volunteer work, Jeonju University and ICC Hanoi had a time to interact with each other and started working on volunteer activities with the opening ceremony of ICC Hanoi volunteer group.

First, Bac Giang social welfare center worked on educational services for the elderly people and disabled students such as cement packaging and painting near the mini playground, electrical wiring readjustment inside the buildings, wall installation around the sinks and outside the buildings, and installation of mini football goal.

Also, the volunteer group conducted cultural exchange activities for 150 ICC Hanoi incoming students, including basic Korean etiquette training and experience of making kimbap. It had prepared various visual and auditory materials to help Vietnamese students to understand and have fun, additionally.

In particular, the most popular program among local students was the experience of making kimbap.

One of the local students who was in kimbap making program said that “It was a good experience to cook Korean food, which is wrapped up with rice and various ingredients,” and continued to say that “I hope I can have more chances to experience various cultures including Korean food.”

In the final schedule, the volunteer group donated sewing machines to Nam Định vocational education center to support job training for disabled students. This activity gained a great popularity from the center staffs and disabled students.

Namhee Han, a general secretary for this volunteer group, said that “I think that Korea and Vietnam have become indispensable friends to each other through this united volunteer service activities. I would like to extend this love and care beyond Korea and to the overseas countries through global volunteer services.”