High school students from Europe and South America spent three to four months in Korean schools, host families and dormitories between August and December 2025.
On 28 August 2025, high school students from Europe and South America arrived in Korea for the fall semester, hosted by Better World in cooperation with AFS. Over the following three to four months they attended five schools: Daewon Foreign Language High School, Daewon Girls' High School, Seoul Yeongsang High School, Anseong Gaon High School and Korea Horse Racing and Livestock High School.
The orientation right after arrival covered practical matters such as using public transport and buying things in shops. The students then started school and lived in host families or dormitories. They joined club activities at the Seoul Metropolitan Suseo Youth Center and the Anseong-si Youth Center, both operated by Better World, and studied Korean online on their own.
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From 24 to 26 October, 18 AFS students and 18 teenagers from Gapyeong spent a weekend together in an exchange program run in cooperation with the Jojong Youth Culture House. They made traditional gangjeong sweets and sat around a campfire in a village in Gapyeong, visited the Gapyeong youth festival, where a student from Germany performed a K-pop dance on stage, and tried 108 bows at a nearby temple. "At the end I did not want to say goodbye to my friends in Gapyeong," a student from Germany said.
Students from Italy, Germany, Czechia, Argentina, Chile and other countries completed the three-month homestay program and left Korea on 25 November. At the final evaluation meeting, they named the people they had met as what impressed them most: school friends, teachers and host families. They reread the letters they had written to themselves on arrival, and most said they wished they had studied Korean harder and spent more time with Korean friends.
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Students from Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Latvia completed the four-month dormitory program at Gaon High School and Korea Horse Racing and Livestock High School and returned home on 28 December. They stayed in dormitories on weekdays and with host families at weekends. "I really enjoyed these four months, and I am going home full of good memories," a student from Finland said. The program has continued since: ten students arrived for the spring semester on 19 March 2026, and 29 students from eight countries arrived in August 2026 for the fall semester.
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