International Youth Club
A youth program in which international and Korean teenagers come together in club activities in their fields of interest, learning and growing together through cultural exchange.
Learning about human rights, peace, cultural diversity and global citizenship.
Better World runs a variety of global education programs, including human rights, peace, multicultural and international understanding, and global citizenship education.
A youth program in which international and Korean teenagers come together in club activities in their fields of interest, learning and growing together through cultural exchange.
Every summer, young people from the United States who want to experience and learn the language and culture of Korea travel across the country. Better World has worked with the program since 2009 so that they learn about Korea and grow through expert lectures and workshops, traditional culture, homestays, international youth exchange and volunteering.
A program in which Korean young people and young people from many countries meet online, communicate in real time, learn about a range of topics and share their different cultures. An international exchange activity that anyone can join, beyond the limits of place.
Better World visits schools that wish to run global citizenship education. With games, discussions and hands-on activities as well as lectures to raise student participation, this education has been held at Hamyeol Girls' High School, Yangeob High School (since 2011) and other schools.
Held with the Sejong City Office of Education as part of global citizenship education, on the theme of understanding and practicing the SDGs.
The LENO project is for young people who are marginalized for physical, economic, political, social or regional reasons. Participants selected in seven countries (South Africa, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Cambodia, Türkiye, Korea and Australia) take part in international and cultural exchange activities, to show their talents, regain confidence and self-esteem, and grow up healthy.
In the India Peace March, university students from Korea and India, participants from around the world and residents across India walk together for peace, hold workshops and spread awareness of peace through contact with local people.
Better World works not only with neighbors across the sea but also with migrants already living with us in Korea. This campaign, carried out with the Beautiful Foundation, donates books in the mother tongues of Asian countries to libraries for migrants.
Medium- and long-term programs in which young people aged 15 to 18 study as exchange or international students for two months to a year or more in countries such as Germany, France and the United States, experiencing the local culture through homestay.
Extending youth international activity online is a turning point that lets more young people take part with fewer limits of time, place and cost. Better World prepares online international activities with iEARN, an international education network connecting some 130 countries.
Open to young people aged 16 to 22, the international youth camp is a place of harmony and exchange for young people from around the world every summer. Through group activities, young people of different cultural backgrounds share friendship and gain respect and a broader view.
Middle and high school students from Korea and Japan visit each other's countries, growing closer through homestays and cultural exchange and imagining a future of living together. Held with the Japan office of the iEARN education network.
In the Korea-U.S. Youth Camp, young people from both countries become cultural ambassadors to one another. Korean middle and high school students and young people from the United States visit cultural sites across Seoul together, raising intercultural understanding. Held by the U.S. Department of State and Better World.
A time of walking together, with friends from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, France, the Netherlands and the United States. Young people from abroad made kimchi, experiencing Korea's kimjang culture, and delivered the kimchi by hand to older people living alone in Seongnam. Held with the Pangyo Youth Center.
Each year, NSLI-Y (National Security Language Initiative for Youth) of the U.S. Department of State selects languages that young Americans should learn, and sends exchange students on government scholarships to the countries where those languages are spoken.
University students become mentors who introduce the Korean language and Korean culture to the U.S. high school students sent each summer on U.S. Department of State scholarships. It is also a chance to plan international activities themselves.
A sound understanding of human rights and sensitivity to them are the basis of the maturity to care for and respect oneself and others. Along with publishing the Korean edition of the human rights education manual for children and young people issued by the Council of Europe, Better World plans human rights education projects with schools, youth institutions and local governments.