[imText1]A \u2018Defector University Leadership Camp\u2019 will be held for defector university students to help them adjust to South Korean society and for the education of youth leadership.<\/p>\n
Sponsored by the \u2018Citizen\u2019s Alliance for North Korean Rights\u2019 (Chief Director Yoon Hyun), 20 defector university students from Seoul National University and Yonsei University will participate in a 3 day leadership camp commencing on the 21st.<\/p>\n
The Citizen\u2019s Alliance stated that \u201cThere are many cases where students cannot adjust to university life and must abandon their studies because of various difficulties such as unfamiliar university life, course selection and career uncertainty\u201d and revealed that the background for \u201cleadership camp, is to show defector university students about university lifestyle and courses, and advise them on planning for their careers and life goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore \u201cAn objective of leadership camp is to cultivate leaders in mediating the \u2018Heart of unity\u2019 for post North and South Unification.\u201d<\/p>\n
The organizations lead education trainer, Lee Young Hwan, stressed that \u201cIf amongst defector university students, active, positive-minded leaders are cultivated, through them preconceptions about defectors will be erased\u201d and \u201cmisunderstandings and prejudices could be resolved by qualified arbitrators with a heart for unification advancement.\u201d<\/p>\n
The leadership camp shows it is receptive to offering the program in areas where defector university students find assimilating most difficult.<\/p>\n
The leadership camp includes various activities such as \u25b2Work skills and Myer-Briggs Personality Test (MBTI) \u25b2Professional interpretation and Introductory tips to English study \u25b2Starting employment preparations and explanations on the interview process \u25b2Special lectures on Knowledge of law by lawyer Shon Kyo Myeong and \u25b2Lectures by specialists from the Korean Leadership Centre.<\/p>\n
In particular, Kang Chul Hwan, co-representative for the Democracy Network against North Korean Gulags and author of the international best seller \u2018the Aquariums of Pyongyang\u2019 will join the camp and encourage his younger students, lecturing on university life and his experiences in society. Additionally, Kim Suk Woo, former vice-minister for the Ministry of Unification, will be lecturing on \u2018Visions of 21st Century Youth.\u2019<\/p>\n
The Citizen\u2019s Alliance plans to send 6 people from this group to the \u2018International Volunteers Worker Camp\u2019 organized by the International Work Camp Operations (IWO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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