Calvin Student Completes Korea Internship

March 8, 2007 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Summary: A Calvin student with roots in Korea and Portugal worked for the
U.S. Embassy in Korea, including work on the Free Trade Agreement between the
U.S. and Korea.
 
Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/korea-intern.htm

A Calvin senior spent half of December and all of the January 2007 interim
term working at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, his country of origin.

Kwang Hoon Ji, also a longtime resident of Portugal, worked in the commercial
office of the embassy where he had a wide variety of duties, including
research, translation, interviewing and organizing documents. He also worked as
the coordinator of the internship program.

One standout assignment, he says, was his work on the Free Trade Agreement
between the U.S. and Korea.

“I translated Korean media news articles about the agreement into English to
make a portfolio for Embassy use,” he says of that project.

“I felt like I wanted to have an internship that was related to my major
(international relations) before I graduate,” says Ji, who has also completed
a ministry internship through Calvin’s Jubilee Fellows Program during his
time at Calvin. “Because I’m from Korea, I thought it would be really
interesting to have an internship in Korea.”

The embassy internship is one of several trips Ji has made to his native
country since he left there in 1993, when his parents became missionaries in
Portugal. Last year, he spent a semester studying at Yonsei University, a
Christian institution in Seoul.

Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/korea-intern.htm

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Received on Thu Mar 8 22:55:28 2007