'Overseas Korean Youth Experience Incheon'... 1,200 Participants in Homeland Training Stay for 3 Days and 2 Nights

1,200 overseas Korean youth visited Incheon.

On the 16th, Incheon City announced that it invited 1,200 participants to Incheon for the '2024 Overseas Korean Youth Homeland Training,' hosted by the Overseas Koreans Foundation and organized by the Overseas Koreans Cooperation Center.

The homeland training program has been conducted annually since 2001 by the Overseas Koreans Foundation and the Overseas Koreans Cooperation Center. It provides next-generation overseas Koreans with opportunities to experience Korea's politics, economy, culture, and history to enhance their identity and pride as Koreans and to foster mutual bonds with domestic youth.

Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok is taking a commemorative photo with Lee Ki-cheol, Commissioner of the Overseas Koreans Office, and other attendees at the '2024 1st Next-Generation Overseas Koreans Invitation Training' held on the 16th at the Grand Hyatt Incheon.
[Photo by Incheon City]

This year, 1,200 overseas Korean youth will visit Incheon, Gyeongju, and Seoul over four sessions starting from the 15th, each lasting 6 nights and 7 days, held weekly. This is the largest scale ever, and during the 2 nights and 3 days stay in Incheon, 600 local youth will also participate.

This training is the first large-scale official event held in Incheon since the launch of the Overseas Koreans Foundation. The city stated that it plans to showcase the vision and charm of Incheon, a city embracing 10 million overseas Koreans, to overseas Korean youth who are not familiar with Korean culture.

During their 2 nights and 3 days stay in Incheon, the training group will visit Arago in Seo-gu and Yale High School in Gyeyang-gu to strengthen networking with Incheon students. They will also tour bio and advanced industry companies such as Samsung Biologics, GMTCK, and Sumbi, as well as Inspire Le Space. Additionally, they will experience Incheon's history and culture through a tour of the Open Port area.

Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok said at the opening ceremony held at the Grand Hyatt Incheon on the morning of the 16th, "Welcome to Incheon, Korea's second-largest economic city and a global top ten city," adding, "I hope this will be a time for you to see, feel, and learn more about Incheon as it leaps toward becoming a world-class city."

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