When asked to write an article about my experience in Korea, I was at first hesitant because I am not the kind of person who likes to talk about myself and I think that the readers may not want to read the same stories about how exchange students enjoy the nightlife and shopping here, in Korea.I wan
Today, June 1st, marks the two month milestone of when I came to Germany as an exchange student. Two months can be considered a short or long period of time depending on the person, but I want to tell you about my experience in Germany so far. I came to Bayreuth University not as a normal exchange s
As I have not been in Englishspeaking countries, I applied for the exchange program of Kennesaw State University in the United States. I decided to come here not only to study English and culture here but also to learn colloquial terms.Except for poor transportation system, I am enjoying my life her
Hello, my name is Bryan. I am currently an exchange student in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Hanyang University (HYU). I am originally from Colombia, but immigrated to the United States with my family during my adolescence. Later on, my family and I moved to Canada, where I li
Many people here in Korea think of spending a year or maybe a semester studying abroad, maybe in the United States or Europe or maybe some where closer to home such as China or Japan. I myself wanted to improve my English and satisfy my interest in the history of the United Kingdom but little did I
Hi there! My name is Tai. I am currently an exchange student in the Department of International Studies at Hanyang University(HYU). I have been living in South Korea for about a year, and will be here until the end of 2015. After I return home, I plan to graduate in Spring of 2016 and hopefully find
Last fall semester, I finally signed up for what I had been wanting to do for some time: flying away to someplace far and foreign. Like most people around my age, I was involved in my school studies as well as extracurricular activities.I narrowed down which country I wanted to go to: It had to be a
Hello readers, my name is Ben(Bunyod Abdukarimov) and I am from KIMEP University, Kazakhstan. You might not have heard of my school, so feel free to Google it. In fact, check out pictures of my country’s big cities, Astana(capital) and Almaty(location of KIMEP). Kazakhstan is famous for its great am
I started to learn English when I was about eight years old. One day, my mother gave me a video called The Beauty and the Beast. I loved it so much that I watched it every day so I almost memorized everything. Then my mother bought me another video called Ice Age. I also liked it and watched so many
South Korea is considered a very exotic place for Italians. So far away geographically and culturally, my friends and family back home were curious and at the same time worried about my decision to study here. I am sure they were secretly asking themselves how I would survive five months in Seoul, a
The country of Don Quixote and Columbus, Spain has been one of the most popular destinations for Koreans to visit this year thanks to the popular television show Grandpas Over Flowers Season 2 which is about elderly celebrities traveling around the world. The show first aired on TvN in 2014. When it
A native Bulgarian, studying Journalism at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, I ended up coming on exchange to Seoul, South Korea. My name is Snezhana Shutova, or simply Jani as friends call me, and I am proud to say I have been a Seoulite for 77 days now. I still vividly remember t
New York! How wonderful and fabulous is this city really? I had always want to go to there and after becoming a university student, I learned about various opportunities to go abroad, including doing so as an exchange student, an intern, and just for travel. As I eagerly waited for a chance to go ab
On one of the hot days in summer, I received an advertisement from a Korean friend who was living in the same village where I was in my home country of Ethiopia. The ad was about the Korean Government scholarship program. A year ago I remember asking him if he knew if there were any higher education
In my opinion, Hanyang University has a well-prepared internship system. I was a junior in the first semester of the year 2013, and one day I received a text message about recruiting for a summer intern. Since I was interested in working as an intern, I looked at the homepage of the Office of Intern
I came from Azerbaijan as a national scholarship student two years and eight months ago. The Korean Embassy in Azerbaijan is in charge of the student scholarship program and selects one student every year. I chose Hanyang University because it is situated in Seoul, which is the capital of Korea and
“Why do I want to go (to the United States)?” This is the question that was echoing in my head while I was on the airplane headed to the U.S. Even though I prepared a lot in order to become one of participants of this program, it was really hard to find a definitive answer to this question. The deci
The first good experience I had in this program, Science Without Borders, was the interaction with people from many different places in Brazil. My country is the largest one among countries in South America, and the 5th biggest in the entire world, both geographically and by population. So making fr