Korean University Students Visit USFK Facility
Some Korean university recently visited some USFK facilities not to protest but to learn:
The students were members of the South Korean nonprofit Community Mental Health Volunteers. It consists mainly of undergraduates training for careers in social work. They were drawn from around South Korea — Daegu, Daejon, Gwangju and Seoul.
“Everywhere, they were very impressed,†said host Hyun Jin-hee, a social worker for the U.S. Army at Camp Walker, and president of the CMHV’s Daegu-Gyeongbuk branch.
At the Child Development Center at Camp George, students were impressed with “every single detail, like safety, cleanliness, all the supervision,†Hyun said. “There’s a camera always monitoring the classrooms to make sure they can provide safety and right supervision for the children. Those details gave them an impression about how much we focus on safety and supervision, those concerns, for taking care of children.â€
Here is something I found amusing:
Taegu American School, also at Camp George, struck them with its broad range of extracurricular sports and arts activities and the number of computers and library books available.
“They were like, ‘Wow, they do lots of things other than studying,’†she said.
Yes there is more to high school than studying just like there is more to college in Korea than protesting outside a USFK facility.
