International high school students live and study in Korea, in schools and host families.
Since 2022, in cooperation with AFS, Better World has invited international high school students each year to attend a Korean high school and to experience and learn the Korean language and culture. The program helps nurture people with global citizenship and global competence, and contributes to a peaceful and sustainable international community through exchange.
With great interest in and curiosity about the Korean language and culture, the students leave their comfort zone and come to Korea to take on a new world. During their stay they make Korean friends of their own age and experience Korean family life, becoming part of Korean culture.
Exchange students improve their Korean by taking Korean classes, sharing school life with peers at a Korean high school and living with a Korean host family. Korean students, in turn, deepen their understanding of other cultures and improve their foreign language skills through contact with exchange students of many cultural backgrounds.
Exchange students experience and learn Korean culture first-hand while building a global network with Korean friends. Korean students keep in touch with exchange students, developing a global outlook and a wider view of the world.
While adapting to Korean culture and society, exchange students take time to reflect on themselves and experience self-discovery and growth. They re-examine their values, develop self-directed learning and grow in independence. Korean students also grow by learning and experiencing different cultures.
Living through many situations in everyday Korean life, in a different cultural setting, exchange students develop the ability to communicate and cooperate. Not only the exchange students but also the Korean students and host families taking part become global citizens.
Exchange students study alongside Korean students and experience everyday school life, with cultural and language exchange with their peers.
Before arrival, students build a foundation through online Korean classes and self-directed study. After arrival, they improve their Korean with tutoring twice a week.
Students experience Korean culture and daily life in a Korean home, and learn Korean in real life. Exchange students staying in a dormitory have a weekend homestay twice a month.
Students take part in field trips to different regions of Korea to experience its traditional and contemporary culture.
Together with Korean young people, students volunteer for neighbors in need in the local community, building a sense of community and citizenship.
At youth centers near their school or home, students join local young people in club activities, sports and festival planning, staying socially active outside school as well.
