In August 2025, about 20 young people from Czechia, including art school students from Třebíč, visited Gyeongju for the Korea-Czechia Youth Cultural Exchange, at the invitation of KHNP.
From 14 to 19 August 2025, about 20 young people from Czechia, students of an art school in Třebíč and university students, took part in the 2025 Korea-Czechia Youth Cultural Exchange in Gyeongju. They were invited by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP). The exchange grew out of ties made during the KHNP global volunteering program in Czechia in June of the same year, and is one of the programs Better World carries out with KHNP.
On 16 August, the visitors made kimchi at the Gyeongju volunteer centre. The kimchi was donated to vulnerable residents of the area. One participant said the experience let them "feel the warm hearts of Korean people."
The following day, a Korea-Czechia Culture Day was held at Hwarang Village in Gyeongju. A youth orchestra from Gyeongju and the team from the Třebíč art school opened the event by playing the national anthems of both countries and folk songs from each, among them the Korean folk song Arirang. Korean university student volunteers performed traditional Korean music and K-pop, and a demonstration team from World Taekwondo closed the program. About 400 people were in the audience.
On 18 August, a ceremony at KHNP headquarters appointed Czech university students as KHNP Supporters. According to the Korean daily Maeil Shinmun, seven students who had been active in the volunteering program in Czechia were selected. The paper also reported that the exchange was the first concrete result of a memorandum of understanding on cultural exchange between KHNP, Gyeongju City, the city of Třebíč and the Třebíč art school.
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A further visit followed a year later. From 4 to 14 September 2026, under-11 football players from Třebíč, with their coaches, spent 11 days in Korea. They played Korean youth teams, joined a cookie-making volunteer activity at the Gyeongju volunteer centre on 9 September, and visited sites in Gyeongju such as Daereungwon and Cheomseongdae, as well as Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul.
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