Introduction of This Blogger

Hey guys,

This is Minkyung Choi who goes to HAFS class of 2010, English Dept.

This blog is for the group of students who participate in the Peace Corps Korea Archive Project.

First, let me introduce what Peace Corps is briefly.

Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by United States Government. Peace Corps volunteers are sent abroad to the countries which need helps with education or health care, etc. From 1960s to (early) 1980s, these people came to Korea to teach English, and to give hands in the field of health care, etc.

Even after these volunteers went back to their homes, they still think about Korea and miss Korea. Soon they organized a group called 'Friends of Korea'.

Since a few years ago, ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Korea Foundation have been inviting these volunteers back to Korea to show them much appreciation.

These volunteers now want to tell Koreans (especially the young who do not know the past very well) about their stories and experiences when they were volunteering in Korea.

This is where the PEACE CORPS KOREA ARCHIVE PROJECT comes in.

PEACE CORPS KOREA ARCHIVE PROJECT is basically about collecting the stories of former volunteers, their Korean co-workers, and even Koreans who received helps from the volunteers.

This kind of project is very suitable for students who are fluent in both English and Korean. Also, we, students, can learn more about our own history, the time when our country Korea was receiving helps as a third-world country in 1960s and 1970s.

In addition, this project hopefully can be a small part to mark the 2011, 50th anniversay of Peace Corps which was founded by John F. Kennedy in 1961.

Korea has been regarded as the most successful case of Peace Corps activities worldwide.

Finally, this project can be a bridge between the Korean young students and the former Peace Corps volunteers in Korea. And it can be a joint effort to recollect the memories, history of Peace Corps from the former volunteers and Koreans.


So..
basically
this blog is just to update things about this PEACE CORPS KOREA ARCHIVE PROJECT.

These were the basic info/intro about the blog and the PROJECT.