[One Day 10,000 Steps One Day 1,000 Characters] Design Your Career and Earn Credits While Walking Jeju Olle Trail

Jeju National University Opens Course on 'Jeju Olle Trail and Self-Reflection'
Walking Programs Operated for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools in Jeju Area

Jeju Olle Trail partners with schools. Students walk the Olle Trail with mentors to plan their careers and studies, and can also earn academic credits.

Jeju National University has newly established and will operate the course 'Jeju Olle Trail and Self-Reflection' starting in March to systematically support career and academic planning for enrolled students, including freshmen.

The 'Jeju Olle Trail and Self-Reflection' course allows a total of 30 students to walk the Olle Trail with mentors, seek advice on careers, majors, and university life, and based on this, design their life paths on the trail. The course is very popular, and the 30 spots were filled instantly.

The mentors are diverse. Along with six on-campus mentors including Jeju National University President Kim Ilhwan, there are seven off-campus mentors such as Kim Dongwon, a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (former president of Jeonbuk National University), and Seo Myeongsuk, chairman of Jeju Olle.

This course aims to assist students in the Division of Liberal Arts in choosing their majors later and in planning their studies and future well. It is organized as a practical experimental course, and students earn 1 credit by walking four courses for 8 hours each day.

The first class will begin on the 29th by walking Course 6 (Soesokkak to Jeju Olle Traveler Center, 11 km). The Jeju Olle Trail was first opened in September 2007 and consists of a total of 27 courses.

President Kim Ilhwan said, “We established this course to walk the Olle Trail, where you can experience Jeju’s natural beauty, together with students to listen to their difficulties directly and communicate.” He added, “As a mentor, I will walk four courses directly with students to help them design their life paths.”

The Jeju Olle Trail also collaborates with elementary, middle, and high schools in the Jeju area. The Jeju Olle Foundation, in partnership with the Jeju Provincial Office of Education, will operate a walking program on the Olle Trail for children, youth, and education office staff in Jeju from April to December, a period of nine months.

This program is offered to 150?300 students from elementary, middle, and high schools and includes mini (within 2 hours), half (within 4 hours), and full (within 6 hours) courses. Activities include ‘Neoyoungnayoung Olle Trail Walking,’ ‘Youth Clean Olle,’ which combines ecological sensitivity and character education through plogging while walking the trail, visiting walking schools with professional Olle instructors dispatched to various schools, making upcycled Ganse dolls, and creating plastic upcycled keyrings.

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