13 days ago K-Academic Diffusion Research Center Introduces K-MOOC Courses and Presents Publicity Performance...

On June 30th, Kim Jae Young, a researcher at Inha University's K-Academic Diffusion Research Center, attended the 1st Global Conference hosted by Korean Association of AD & PR (KADPR) and delivered the presentation on K-MOOC courses for the spread of global Korean studies to foreign students and professors. Professor Lee Jong-min (Kookmin University) presided its general presentation session and Kim Ji-young (Hawaii University) participated in the discussion on the presentation. Both professors held a meaningful discussion for about 20 minutes. The main questions for the presentation were dealt with in the discussion: 1.The characteristics of a series of K-MOOC courses, 2.Methods in spreading K-MOOC courses with the help of AI, 3.How Korean studies scholars can make the best of K-MOOC courses such as public diplomacy. Especially, professor Kim Ji-young of the University of Hawaii, who is in charge of Public Diplomacy subject, said that she plans to look at Inha University's K-MOOC courses and extract the necessary parts for her course in the near future. Since its foundation in 1998, KADPR has actively supported mutual exchanges and academic activities among members engaged in advertising and public relations, and has established itself as a representative society in the domestic communication field. This presentation served as an opportunity to discuss in-depth measures necessary to promote global Korean studies in the field of public relations and communication, and it is expected that the scope of K-MOOC utilization will be further expanded, including public diplomacy for foreign students and professors working at foreign universities, overseas Koreans, and raising awareness of Korean culture. The K-Academic Diffusion Research Center will continue to not only expand cooperation with domestic and foreign communication societies and public relations organizations, but also make efforts to spread and enhance the status of K-Academic.    

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K-Connectors 2025.05.29(12:00) '2nd K-Connectors Presentation Event' Completion Report

On May 28th, the K-Academic Diffusion Research Center under Inha Center for International Studies(ICIS) held the second K-Connectors presentation event at the International Conference Hall in Jeongseok Academic Information Center. A total of 32 people, including Lee Jean Young, head of ICIS, and its researchers also attended the event. It was organized to share the achievements of K-Connectors’ project which contributed to spreading global Korean studies in the social science field. The K-Connectors aim to encourage participatory academic exchanges in which INHA students form individual teams for about four months in carrying out projects. All process and outcomes were evaluated based on quantitative and qualitative indicators. This performance presentation was conducted in both methods such as the exhibition type through posters and the presentation type based on PPT. In doing so, final reports were shown in parallel with various forms. At the event, awards were also given to excellent teams and students. The Lips team, which carried out the "Chinese School Education and Cultural Exchange" project, was selected as an excellent team, while Kim Do-yeon (Consumer Science Department, 3rd grade) and Jeong Da-min (English and European Studies, 4th grade) were awarded as excellent students, respectively. The selected excellent teams and students will participate in the upcoming academic exchange visit to Fukuoka, Japan, scheduled for June 20th and announce the outcomes of the second K-Connectors activity internationally. The K-Academic Diffusion Research Center will continue to provide active support and publicity for spreading Korean studies in various ways at home and abroad through the K-Connectors program.  

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2025.05.29(05:00) Inha University's 2nd K-Connectors 'Lips' Team opens the possibility of 'coexistence' through cul...

The K-Connectors program, run by the K-Academic Diffusion Research Center under Inha Center for International Studies(ICIS), has been carrying out various activities with the aim of spreading Korean studies in the field of Social Science since the first term. The 'Lips' team focused on the Chinese community and planned the 'Open Your LIPS' project to explore the possibility of mutual understanding and coexistence between the Chinese community and Korean society. In April 2025, the "Lips" team visited the Chinese elementary and secondary schools in Chinatown, Incheon, and conducted cultural exchange activities with Chinese students between Korea and China. The cultural exchange classes held at the Chinese school consisted of traditional games such as Dalgona game, kite making & flying, Korean paper crafts, and slapstick game. In particular, the Dalgona game was explained in connection with the Korean Netflix drama "Squid Game" to attract students' interest, and in kite flying activities, they were able to understand each other's culture through comparison with Taiwan's "Sky Lanterns" culture. According to a preliminary survey before the activity, only about half of the Chinese students said they wanted to live in Korea even as adults, and 36.4 percent said they were not interested in Korean culture. However, after the cultural exchange activities, 71.9 percent of the respondents said they have become more familiar with Korean culture, and 93.8 percent said they would like to experience Korean culture more in the future, confirming a clear change in perception.   After the cultural exchange class, the Lips team operated an experiential booth at the back gate of Inha University and continued its activities to lead citizens' participation. A total of 85 participants participated in the OX quiz and awareness questionnaire related to overseas Chinese, and based on this data, a public opinion map was completed. These activities contributed to attracting citizens' interest in the overseas Chinese community and laying the foundation for understanding for coexistence. The Lips team did not stop there, but expanded its activities to hold the "OUR" forum. Chinese students and Inha University students participated in the forum together to freely talk about the distance, experiences of discrimination, confusion of identity, and causes of low willingness to settle in Korean society. Under the main theme of proposals for coexistence, participants discussed and presented structural problems in Korean society and the direction of change that Chinese students want. More than half of Inha University students who participated in the forum answered that their interest in Chinese has "increased significantly" after participating in the forum, and the overall change in perception was confirmed.     During the activity, parents of some Chinese students visited the school and watched the program in person, and responded that "the child exchanged contact information with a Korean friend for the first time." This is an example of how the Lips team's project went beyond a simple one-off event to achieve positive changes in Chinese families. The Lips team said it is rewarding to provide an opportunity for Chinese students to encourage them to accept Korean culture and actively participate in communication and exchange with Korean society through this activity. In addition, as an extension of the project, the Lips team also produced and operated card news contents in the form of a web magazine. Card news posts were uploaded online a total of 6 times, of which 4 were composed by summarizing academic topics based on K-MOOC courses, and the other 2 were composed of on-site contents based on visits to overseas Chinese schools. The topic of card news is ▲the difference between cultural and public diplomacy, ▲Chinese, who are they? ▲Chinese school, have you heard of it? ▲Chinese living in Korea, etc., dealing with in-depth content for each week. In particular, the contents based on visits to overseas Chinese schools vividly capture the atmosphere and exchange process of the actual site, effectively delivering the reality of the overseas Chinese community that is difficult to encounter in everyday life. Through an original project called "Open Your Lips," the Lips team naturally made many people recognize that the overseas Chinese society is not a strange and distant being, but a neighbor living together in Korean society. This project of the Lips team will continue to provide an opportunity to worry about a society where various members coexist.    

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K-Connectors 2025.05.29(04:00) Inha University's 2nd K-Connectors 'Connect-IN' Team Connects Korean Identity as Traditional Culture

The K-Connectors program, run by the K-Academic Diffusion Research Center under Inha Center for International Studies(ICIS), has been carrying out various activities with the aim of spreading Korean studies in the field of Social Science since the first term. The 'Connect-IN' team planned the project focusing on Korean Goryeo people who are prone to alienation due to institutional and social barriers. The Connect-IN team operated a traditional culture experience program under the theme of "Unifying with Traditional Culture Experience" in cooperation with the Hambak Social Welfare Center in Incheon, especially for Goryeo youth who are experiencing identity confusion due to language, culture, and legal instability. The program was held once a month, a total of three times, and was organized so that Korean youth could experience Korean culture and feel a sense of national solidarity. In the first activity, the team provided a time to feel the aesthetic elements of Korean culture through the experience of traditional mother-of-pearl crafts. In the second activity, it provided an opportunity to naturally experience Korean food culture and etiquette culture by making traditional multi-sense food, and in the third activity, the historical background area of the Goryeo people is displayed on the world map, and each participant connects his or her name or picture with a line to complete a single "Korean History Map."       Jeong Da-min, a 4th grader at the Department of Convergence of British, American, and Humanities, who led the project, said, "We have organized the message so that Korean teenagers can visually experience the message that we are connected as one, which can be thought to be different from each other." The Connect-IN team said at the performance presentation that this activity laid the foundation for Goryeo youth to accept Korean culture more naturally and internalize their identity as a Korean people. The Connect-IN team decided that these activities should not be limited to one-time events, but should broaden the opportunities for continuous cultural exchange and identity recovery. Accordingly, after consultation with the Hambak Social Welfare Center in Incheon, it plans to conduct regular additional cultural experience volunteer activities until November 2025. In subsequent activities, we intend to lay the groundwork for longer-term and practical identity recovery and social integration through a participatory program that reflects on the opinions of Goryeo youth. In addition, the Connect-IN team ran the "Do You Know? History on the Road – Goryeoin Quiz Campaign" around Inha University's campus and also conducted activities to improve participatory awareness of Koreans. The campaign aimed to resolve misunderstandings and indifference towards Korean compatriots in Goryeo and naturally delivering correct information, and was conducted by providing participants with historical and cultural quizzes related to Koreans and sharing traditional snacks. In addition, the campaign was also promoted through K-MOOC courses linked to the Connect-IN team's project.     In addition to field activities, the Connect-IN team expanded the foundation for the formation of social discourse by conducting online content public debate activities to raise awareness of Goryeoin. This activity, conducted under the name of the 'Information-Based Goryeoin Awareness Spread Campaign', attempted to create a sustainable public forum online by operating Instagram accounts and contributing to the press of the Hankook Mirae Ilbo. Initially, the team aimed to provide practical living information to Korean compatriots in Goryeo, but through on-site advice, it paid attention to the lack of a foundation for information to be created rather than a simply lacking information. Accordingly, the goal was to shift the strategy to change the perception of Koreans and to form a structure in which voluntary information production and diffusion can take place. To this end, the team continued to share information by posting contents related to Goryeoin on Instagram once or twice a week. The content deals with the history, culture, policy, and life story of Goryeoin and simultaneously enhances interest and understanding through card news format and storytelling-based explanation. Russian subtitles were introduced in some posts to strengthen the accessibility of the Goryeoin party. In addition, he contributed to the to promote wider social spread and awareness. The Connect-IN team will continue to proceed activities for sustainable cultural exchange and identity recovery rather than one-off in the future, contributing to the foundation of a multicultural society living with the restoration of understanding among disconnected communities.

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K-Connectors 2025.05.29(03:00) Inha University's 2nd K-Connectors 'Han-Bridge' Team Builds a Bridge Between Students and Democracy

The K-Connectors program, run by the K-Academic Diffusion Research Center under Inha Center for International Studies(ICIS), has been carrying out various activities with the aim of spreading Korean studies in the field of Social Science since the first term. The 'Han-Bridge' team drew attention by planning and operating the 'Inha Student Democracy Colloquium' project based on the 'Democratization and Democracy in Korea', a K-MOOC course.     Prior to the full-fledged project, the Han-Bridge team produced a democracy booklet to distribute it to participants in the Colloquium. The booklet contained information that was deepened, including theories and concepts of democracy based on the K-MOOC course, and practical application cases. Choi Jae-hyuk (Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, senior) who led the team said, "Through the process of producing the booklet, we became deeply aware of the need to reflect on and defend the democratic system, and we were able to spend a meaningful time discussing democracy freely with the participants." Inha Student Democracy Colloquium was held three times, with a total of 43 domestic and foreign participants participating. The first round was held as an offline event for Inha University students and the general public, and the second and third rounds were held online for students of the Korean National Association and Almaty Business University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, respectively, providing a venue for international exchange. The Colloquium was composed of a total of three parts. In part 1, a lecture was held using a brochure produced by the Han-Bridge team, and in part 2, an in-depth discussion on the subject was held through various discussions led by participants. In part 3, exchanges from various perspectives were actively conducted through free question-and-answer and experience sharing. Participants freely exchanged in-depth opinions with each other by discussing topics such as ▲ democracy for themselves, ▲ ways to improve the credibility of political groups, ▲ experiences of political participation in daily life, and ▲ specificity of Korean democracy. ▲ Photo of offline colloquium activity   ▲ Photo of online colloquium activity   After completing the project, the Han-Bridge team conducted a survey of participants to check the effect of raising awareness of democracy. As a result, most of the participants responded that their understanding of democracy has deepened. In addition, the majority of participants gave very positive responses such as 'I was able to have a deeper understanding of the development process of democracy' and 'It was a meaningful time' through the satisfaction survey. Through this project, the Han-Bridge team has achieved results in establishing a human network with young people from abroad as well as domestic students, and forming an international consensus on democratic values. In addition, the core contents from the Inha Student Democracy colloquium went viral through social media in conveying the Korean democratic experience not only to direct participants but also to indirect participants such as students, ordinary citizens, local communities, and members of the international community. The Han-Bridge team's activities, which contributed to shaping Korean studies in the social science field through creative planning and practice-oriented program operation, will continue to contribute widely spreading Korean studies. The booklet of Han-Bridge team can be downloaded as the attachment below.    

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K-Connectors 2025.05.29(02:00) Inha University K-Connectors' 'Inha Nuri Team' Develops 'INHA-K' Multicultural Coexistence Project

The K-Connectors program, run by the K-Academic Diffusion Research Center under Inha Center for International Studies(ICIS), has been carrying out various activities with the aim of spreading Korean studies in the field of Social Science since the first term. The "Inha Nuri" team drew attention by planning and operating the "INHA-K" project based on the "Korean Society and Identity," a K-MOOC course. The INHA-K project is a participatory communication activity centered on the lives and voices of international students and aims to promote a multicultural inclusive society through four strategies: experiential education, expansion of public sphere, operation of information community, and spread of digital content. The project consisted of a total of five programs: ▲ Inter-cultural Playground ▲ Nexus Forum ▲ Harmony Walk ▲ Access Nuri News ▲ K-Insight Report.     The first "Inter-cultural Playground" was an open booth event held on the campus of Inha University, designed to experience traditional games in Korea, China, and the Philippines together and naturally understand cultural differences. Participants shared the conditions of an inclusive society on a post-it through multicultural quizzes and opinion-expression activities, and in the survey, many responded that "they enjoyed experiencing cultural differences and a shift in perception."   The "Nexus Forum," which took place afterwards, was operated as a policy public forum where foreign and Korean students shared their problems in life together and suggested solutions. Beyond simple discussions, it continued to produce policy proposal pamphlets, and participants said they were "impressed by the experience of proposing and sharing direct opinions" after the forum.     In addition, in the 'Harmony Walk', which explored the Seoul World Urban Culture Festival together, international students learned the value of inclusivity by experiencing the cultures of various countries firsthand. Through watching performances, experiencing traditional culture, and cultural quizzes, international students were able to think naturally about the necessity and direction of multicultural coexistence in Korean society. https://www.nurinews.kr/ ▲ Address of NURI News website run by 'Hannuri' team In the online sector, an information provision website named 'Access Nuri News' was operated, and practical information and cultural contents for international students were produced and uploaded periodically as multilingual card news. The site functioned as an inclusive platform that encompasses not only information provision, but also reviews and community functions. Finally, the digital content series 'K-Insight Report', which summarized the entire activities, was produced in the form of Reels videos and card news and spread through Instagram accounts. Each content reflected the contents of the K-MOOC course, and a QR code was inserted to establish a structure to connect online learning and practice. Through this project, the "Hannuri" team established foreign students as active participants and policy subjects rather than passive objects, and effectively spread the value of inclusion and multicultural coexistence in Korean society through various activities that cross offline and online. The "INHA-K" project, which is also significant as a model for practical public diplomacy, is expected to have a positive impact on the dailyization and international spread of Korean studies in the future.

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K-Connectors 2025.05.29(01:00) Inha University K-Connectors' 'Orange Team' Says Coexistence Through Documentary

The K-Connectors program, run by the K-Academic Diffusion Research Center under Inha Center for International Studies(ICIS), has been carrying out various activities with the aim of spreading Korean studies in the field of Social Science since the first term. The "Orange" team focused on multicultural conflicts and language barriers in Korean society and planned the "K-Multicultural Bridge: Connecting the Path to Coexistence with International Students and Korea." among a total of 6 teams. The project "K-Multicultural Bridge: Connecting the Path of Coexistence with International Students and Korea" led by the Orange Team is a new form of multicultural communication that combines documentary content and discussion programs, focusing on honest conversations between foreign and Korean students. The 'K-Multicultural Bridge Project' was planned based on the K-MOOC lecture at Inha University. The course deals with social conflicts over minorities and migrants, and the Orange team planned this project to connect the academic knowledge obtained from the course to solving actual social problems. The K-Multicultural Bridge project goes beyond simple cultural exchanges and focuses on revealing structural discrimination and exclusion problems for the purpose of seeking solutions. The main contents of the Orange Team consist of a documentary on the adaptation period of foreign students and a small discussion program with domestic and foreigners. In the documentary, the language barriers, identity confusion, and issues of belonging that international students experience in Korea are candidly captured in interviews and daily videos, raising the fundamental question of "how open Korean society is toward international students." The documentary is composed of a total of three parts, excluding the prologue and the epilogue. The first part focuses on new worlds and unfamiliar daily lives as foreign students, the second part deals with challenges and growth in everyday life, and the third part deals with the experiences of crossing the boundary. "Language isn't just an inconvenience, but also the main cause of emotional isolation," the Orange team said. "The real problem is fear and distance from not knowing each other." The discussion program was conducted for Inha University students, and it was operated in a comprehensive way that international and Korean students joined a team to freely share their opinions on cultural differences and coexistence. Participants explored the "skills of coexistence" together through an attitude to recognize and understand each other's differences in perspective.     The Orange Team project is all about "saying differences and connecting them with understanding." The contents of the project, which were created by international students and Koreans as equal subjects from the planning stage, have been currently released to the public through various online platforms. The Orange team said, "We hope this documentary will serve as an opportunity to make people think twice, rather than change their minds."     The Orange team's documentary is available through the link below. https://www.youtube.com/@k-orange4

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K-Connectors 2025.05.29(00:00) Inha University's K-Connectors 'Link' team, the Goryeoin Entrance Exam Guidebook and Participatio...

The K-Connectors program, run by the K-Academic Diffusion Research Center under Inha Center for International Studies(ICIS), has been carrying out various activities with the aim of spreading Korean studies in the field of Social Science since the first term. In the second term, a total of six teams have been actively involved, and the "Link" team has planned the "Consider Goryeoin" project by paying attention to the entrance examination problems of Korean teenagers who want to keep staying in Korea. The project "Consider Goryeoin" led by the Link team was planned based on the K-MOOC lecture "Formation and Development of the Goryeoin Community in Korea ". The course deals with its history of formation and adaptation of Korean society, and the Link team planned this project to link the academic knowledge obtained from the course to solving actual social problems. The "Consider Goryeoin" project is not just a cultural exchange but also revealing the difficulties faced by the Korean society and seeking practical solutions. The main project of the Link team consists of the production of a guidebook for entrance exams for young Goryeoin and the operation of booths for the Busan International Civic Festival. The entrance exam guidebook contains practical information such as high school admission procedures, multicultural special admission guidance, scholarship system, and college entrance route. The Busan International Civic Festival ran a booth called "Do you know Goryeo people?" to introduce the history and identity of Koreans' migration and shed light on the settlement process and educational difficulties in Korea. The Link team said it plans to distribute about 150 copies of the entrance examination guidebook to multicultural education support centers and related organizations. The Link team shared information on Goryeoin to about 70 participants, and most of the participants responded that they had "newly learned about Goryeoin" as a result of the survey at the Busan International Civic Festival. The Link team explained, "We wanted to provide practical entrance examination information to Goryeoin youth who are alienated from information, and in the mid to long term, awareness of Goryeoin and multicultural sensitivity should be improved."  

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