By Tongil Tours founding partner Alek Sigley who organised, led, and took part in the program. Tongil Tours is excited to report that this summer we successfully ran our first ever Korean language study program in North Korea. As specialists in educational tourism to North Korea, and believers in the power of education to enable much needed cross-cultural understanding between North Korea and the outside world, this program is very much something that has been close to our hearts. Language being the primary medium through which culture is transmitted, we feel that there is no better way to further such cultural understanding than through studying the Korean language in a North Korean university. The Background: Foreign Students in North Korean Universities in the Past This program is something that we’d been aiming for since the very beginning. We started inquiring when Tongil Tours first started in 2013. With the… [Read More]
Archives for January 2017
