미지센터의 청소년 국제교류이야기

                                             2012 상반기, 판게아는 내 친구 2차 활동

일시: 2012년 5월 12일(토) 14:00~17:00

장소: 미지센터 나눔방

2012 상반기, 판게아는 내 친구 2차 활동

일시: 2012년 5월 12일(토) 14:00~17:00

장소: 미지센터 나눔방

2012 상반기, 판게아는 내 친구 2차 활동

일시: 2012년 5월 12일(토) 14:00~17:00

장소: 미지센터 나눔방

2012 상반기, 판게아는 내 친구 2차 활동

일시: 2012년 5월 12일(토) 14:00~17:00

장소: 미지센터 나눔방

세상을 이해하고 움직이는 아홉 가지 주인공

- 전국 청소년 함께 하는 3박 4일 기획캠프 -

- 청소년 스스로 만들어보는 국제교류 고민 -

해외에 나가야만 국제교류 프로그램인가? 외국어를 못해도 국제교류 프로그램에 참가할 수 있을까? 청소년이 직접 기획자가 되어 국제교류 프로그램을 만들어 본다면 어떨까?

이런 물음에서 시작된 국제교류기획캠프가 올해로 3회를 맞이한다. ‘세상을 이해하고 움직이는 아홉 가지 주인공’을 주제로 하는 이번 제3회 국제교류기획캠프는 2012년 2월1일(수)부터 4일(토)까지 3박4일 일정으로 서울시립청소년문화교류센터 ‘미지’(소장: 최형근, 이하 미지센터)에서 열린다.

이번 캠프에서는 청소년 참가자들 스스로 기획자가 되어 △물(Water) △병(Disease) △돈(Money) △펜(Pen) △눈(Eyes) △색(Color) △집(Home) △춤(Dance) △틈(Crack)의 총 9개 팀별 주제에 부합하는 국제교류프로그램 기획안을 만들어 보는 시간을 가질 예정. 참가자들은 청소년운영위원회가 선정한 9개 주제를 바탕으로 각 팀이 기획한 청소년 국제교류 프로그램 기획안을 발표하며, 우수작에게 유네스코한국위원회 사무총장상, 서울시립청소년문화교류센터장상이 수여된다.

한편 본행사에 앞서 지난 1월 15일에 열린 참가자 오리엔테이션에서는 김민재(대학생국제외교학회 이사장) 씨가 ‘꿈과 열정을 세계에 공개하라’ 라는 주제로 본인의 경험담을 통해 청소년의 미래에 대해 계획을 세우고 열정적으로 사는 것에 대해, 윤지혜(전 미지센터 교육문화사업팀 팀장) 씨가 ‘청소년 국제교류 프로그램 개념 및 기획, 운영’을 주제로 청소년 국제교류 프로그램 기획자로서 필요한 자세 및 기본개념에 대해 각각 강연을 하였다. 전국에서 선발된 62명의 청소년과 13명의 미지센터 청소년 운영위원회는 첫 만남이라는 것이 무색할 만큼 적극적인 참여와 열띤 토론을 통해 국제교류기획캠프를 준비하였다.

국제교류 프로그램 참가 경험이 없는 청소년을 대상으로 청소년 국제교류 프로그램에 대한 선입견을 없애고 청소년의 요구가 잘 반영된, 청소년 주도적인 국제교류 프로그램을 만들고자 기획된 이 프로그램은 서울시립 기관인 미지센터가 유일하게 전국 청소년을 대상으로 모집하는 캠프로 청소년의 자발성 증진, 팀워크와 국제교류에 대한 이해 증진을 목표로 하고 있다.

1. 선발예정인원 : ‘저예요’ 20명

2. 실습시기 : 2012년 1월 9일 ~ 2012년 2월 29일까지 기간 중 배정

3. 실습형태 : 만15세~만18세 - 3일 / 만19세 이상 - 1주일

4. 실습시간 : 오전 10시 ~ 오후 6시

5. 실 습 비 : 만15세~만18세 - 1만원 / 만19세 이상 - 2만원

※ 기초생활수급자, 소년ㆍ소녀가장, 차상위계층, 한부모가정 자녀 참가비 면제, 증빙서류 제출

6. 실습내용 : 청소년 국제교류 교육 참여, 현장체험, 과제수행 등

7. 특전 및 편익

가. 청소년 국제교류 교육 및 프로그램 참여 기회 제공

나. 국내 외 청소년 국제교류에 대한 정보습득 기회 제공

다. 청소년 국제교류 관련 각종 자료 대출 가능

라. 활동인증서 발급

8. 신청방법 : 2012년 1월 1일(일) 23:00까지 미지 홈페이지에서 지원서를 다운받아 작성 후,

이메일 joyfuljuicy@mizy.net으로 접수

(이메일 제목 및 파일명: 2012저예요_지원자성명)

9. 선발일정

※ 1차 서류심사 및 최종선발 발표는 미지센터 홈페이지 게시 또는 합격자에 한해 개별연락 드립니다.

※ 2차 면접은 서류전형 합격자에 한해 미지센터에서 진행합니다.

10. 문의 : 미지센터 교육문화사업팀 박주희, 02-755-1024(내선105), joyfuljuicy@mizy.net

※ 특성화고, 대안학교, 탈학교, 근로청소년, 지체장애청소년, 탈북청소년, 차상위청소년 등을 포함한 모든 청소년이 지원 가능하며 예비 청소년 국제교류실무자로서의 체험을 하고자 하는 모든 청소년들이 지원 가능합니다.

2012단기인턴실습 저예요 지원서_지원자성명.hwp

On July 24th, Seoul Youth Center for Cultural Exchange, Mizy Center in short, welcomed the second guest speaker
for the MDG workshop provided for the Mizy Reporters, Kim Kyung Soo. Mr. Kim’s main field of activity is PKO:
Peacekeeping Operations. Starting with the interning at the UN, he has developed his career through working in the
Asia Pacific Council, the Korea Military Academy, the United Nations Military Observer group in India and Pakistan, and the United Nations Mission in Sudan. From his experiences, he realized that the MDGs goals were all parts of a big
cycle linked by two words, sustainable development. He explains the each goals based on his experiences and what
the future peacekeepers can do.

 

Picture from crcna.org-MDG hands

Goal1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

Goal2: Achieve Universal Primary Education

According to the 2011 MDG Report, the Sudanese children’s school enrollment rate has been increasing recently.
However, when he was in Sudan, the children could barely attend school due to several reasons. Weather affected the most. 8 months of the year, it was too wet for the small children to walk the several kilometers to school, whilst 2 were too dry and hot. Even in normal weathers, parents feel it is too dangerous to send their kids on such a long walk, where
boys are frequently kidnapped by the army, and the girls, raped. Merely building schools in the nations and
recommending parents to enroll their children have not solved the problem of education, where such indigenous issues
are not taken into account. 
 

Goal3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

The number of women with paid jobs is considerably lower than the number of men with paid jobs in Sudan. Most
women in Sudan do not realize that they are receiving unjust and unequal treatment. For them to know this, they need to be educated, but of unfortunately, everything has a price tag, even education.

Goal4: Reduce Child Mortality

In year 2007, during 3 months of time, 821 Sudanese children died of measle. That corresponds to two small elementary
schools in Seoul. Likewise, malaria is one of the diseases that wipes out children now and then. However, having
caught them twice, Mr. Kim says that they were somewhat like normal colds, gone in 3 days with medication. The 
diseases are not what raises child mortality rate, but it’s their extremely weak bodies and immunity, along with the
unyielding poverty that seems to beholding the Sudaneses’ ankles on all parts of their lives.

Goal5: Improve Maternal Health

The ratio of baby getting born under proper professional medical care was only 48% in year 2008. If the mothers’ health is deteriorating, the child mortality will rise. If the mother has AIDS, the number of new AIDS infectants will rise. If the mother receives low quality education, or no education, the child is less likely to have proper education, and so on. This
generation’s females’ problems are literally “inherited” by the next generation if they are not solved.  

 

Goal6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other Diseases

Because of the high illiteracy, instead documents with definition and descriptions of AIDS, he and the team plastered a
large poster with the word “AIDS” on it, color print. The next day, the poster was found stuck in a home’s wall as
decoration. Due to lack of education and knowledge, the could not understand his explanations on why AIDS is
dangerous, what happens to kids born with AIDS, and where they can get the pills.

 

Goal7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability

Mr. Kim realized the seriousness of the water issues not only when he saw people using drinking water for washing, but also the vice versa. To help these Sudanese, an industry kindly sent high-technology generators that could pump out
water from the underground that ran on electricity. Unsurprisingly, the generators ended up in the children’s hands
because they did not have enough energy to operate such machines and did not know how such technology worked.
Similarly, he found out that the land is actually fertile enough to operate an agricultural system, but because they lacked
agricultural technology and knowledge, they fall into idleness.

Goal8: Global Partnership for Development.
 

From all these experiences, he realized that what he and other people working in international bodies and partnerships
that support the developing nations need to do is ‘research.’ To gather correct information and database so that they
actually “know” the realities of each nation, rather than planning on surmises and speculations. The UN might seem as if they are doing nothing, but it is they who do the research with which the NGOs and other international organizations
raise funds.

Sudan is an impoverished nation, but at the same time, the most supported by the UN. But why are they showing second to no progression when countries like India and China, which were once in the same line receiving same or less help
than them, are prospering? Mr. Kim says that he has never heard a ‘thank you’ in Sudan. Their history filled with betrayal and embezzlement, the Sudanese neglects to depend on other nations for development, making the effects of the UN and other international organizations’ help temporal. However, Mr. Kim explains that this is not their fault, but our ignorance of their unique culture and history. “Like humans have different characteristics, so does the nations. We need to understand these characteristics: the history, culture, the environment, the weather, and so on. You think that you know, but when
you look at the real scenes, you’ll realize that reality is very different.” To promote sustainable development, the main goal of MDGs, we need to firstly research and understand them.

 

※ Tip for those who are interested in joining Mr. Kim:

Mr. Kim says that many students ask him what major they should choose and how high their TOEFL, TOEIC, and other
English scores have to be to work in the UN or NGOs. He says that his answers are always the same: follow your bliss and dream. In the book Succeed as the citizen of the world, not of Korea(한국인이 아닌 세계인으로 성공하라), he recalls when he and his team members of the OCHA, Office of Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, gathered after a long day of work. All eight members were from different countries and all had different majors, ranging from social welfare to computer programmers. He quotes “Don’t accommodate yourself to the international organizations but apply your own merits to their needs.” Doing what you can do best and with joy is the quickest way to helping others be happy.

 

팔레스타인 청소년 관련기관 실무자 다섯 명이 미지센터를 찾았습니다. 이번에 미지센터를 방문한 실무자들은 순천향대학교 청소년연구센터의 지원으로 한국 청소년시설을 연수 중인 팔레스타인 청소년 전문가들로, KOICA 등 한국의 지원 하에 팔레스타인 청소년들을 위한 지역학교 및 청소년센터 건립을 위해 노력하고 있습니다.

4월 18일, 미지센터를 방문한 팔레스타인 실무자들은 미지센터와 미지센터의 프로그램을 소개받고 청소년 국제교류 프로그램 운영에 관한 다양한 의견을 나누었습니다. 지난 8일 한국 도착 후 약 20일에 이르는 한국 방문 일정을 진행 중인 팔레스타인 실무자들은 이 밖에도 한국청소년정책연구원, 국립중앙청소년수련원, 한국청소년활동진흥원, 순천향대학교 등 한국의 다양한 청소년 기관들을 방문, 팔레스타인 헤브론 지역 내 청소년들을 지원하기 위한 구체적인 방안을 모색할 예정입니다. 

Until 1980s, Korea and China had very limited interrelation due to ideological struggle. In late 1980s, finally, Korea and China have opened up their doors and started the relationship that had been long suspended. Nowadays, China has become a highly important partner of Korea for both geopolitical and economic reasons. Furthermore, people’s effort to actively engage in each other’s culture improved the relationship between the two countries. A group of Koreans living in Shanghai, China, sought the way to contribute to both the betterment of relationship between the two countries and spread of Korean culture, which resulted in the establishment of Han-Geul Hakdang.

Photo taken by Jae Hyun Kim, Used with Approval

 
          Han-Geul Hakdang is a non-profit organization that aims to offer Korean education opportunities for Chinese people in Shanghai. Han-Geul Hakdang was established in September 2004, with collaborative efforts of resident employees, housewives and teachers from Shanghai Korean School. As it developed, Hakdang not only educates Chinese Korean, but also introduces Korean culture by holding Korean festivals and cultural exchange activities; it annually holds Korean festival that consists programs for making Korean food and playing Korean traditional games.

           Fortunately, I had an opportunity to participate in a Korean lecture class in Hakdang as an assistant. Even though all the teachers were voluntary, their enthusiasm for teaching was outstanding. I was responsible for reading out loud each Korean word clearly and gradubg vocabulary test that the students just had taken. The result of vocabulary test was not that great, but Chinese students, who just have begun studying Korean, were trying their best to pronounce each Korean word clearly. Furthermore, the students were amused when they found the similar pronunciation among few Korean and Chinese words. The Lecture lasted for only an hour, but at the end of the class, students were delightfully repeating few Korean phrases like AnNyeongHaSeYo, hello, and GoMapSeumNiDa, thank you in Korean.

           Currently, the classes are being held in offices generously provided by Korean Chamber of Commerce. Lectures are being instructed by volunteer teachers and assistants, while classes are divided based on students’ level of Korean fluency and their needs. New students are being admitted on every January, and Hakdang also grants certificates for students who reached certain level of Korean fluency.