International Cultural Exchange Programs
Promote cultural exchange, empower the Korean diaspora, and engage with our Korean-American identity!
2022 International Cultural Exchange Program: “Know Trash! No Trash!”
by Yani Lee & Dex hong
Partnered with Asan Youth Education and Cultural Center, a public education center in South Korea, KAYL presided over a 7 week-long program exploring the cultural disparity between South Korea and the USA in waste disposal (UN SDGs 15). The program consisted of 6 sessions: lectures from guest speaker, upcycling craft, independent plogging, speech competition and was selected as the “2022 International Youth Cultural Exchange Program” by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family—receiving over $10,000 in funding from the S. Korean Government.
“It was inspiring to learn about arising global issues with friends from across the world as global citizens!”
2022 Inter-Korea Youth Forum
by Yani Lee, Grace Shin, Jun KiM & Jiahao Guo
Partnered with Concourse International, a non-profit corporation, KAYL participated in the international youth forum consisting of 8 sessions of symposium on Korean Diaspora. The program consisted of 25 ethnic-Koreans from 5+ countries including 9 Zainichi North Koreans and was endorsed by the N. Korean-affiliated "Tokyo Korean High School."
Each session consisted of series of agendum followed by leading-prompts such as Should ‘History’ be taught from the perspective of the country? followed by How are each country taught in your school? (e.g., The Korean War, Japanese colonial empire, & Modern day crisis faced by North Koreans in Japan.)
“My home is, and always will be, the Korea before it was divided, or the Korea soon to be unified”
2021 International Cultural Exchange Program: “ECO-TABLE”
by Yani Lee & Semi Kim
Partnered with Asan Youth Education and Cultural Center, a public education center in South Korea, KAYL presided over a 5 week-long program exploring traditional cuisines of South Korea and North America. The program consisted of 6 sessions of exchanges centering around creating eco-friendly recipes to implement goals as global citizens (UN SDGs 13) and was selected as the “2021 International Youth Cultural Exchange Program” by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family—receiving over $7,500 in funding from the S. Korean Government.
“The idea of infusing arising global issue to mundane food recipes was so creative! ”