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