Surviving in Korea: Sharing!

The Peace Corps was established by John F. Kennedy in 1961. It’s an overseas volunteer program, in which men and women work with people in developing countries to help them improve their living conditions. The main goals of the Peace Corps are to help the poor obtain everyday need and promote world peace. The Korea Foundation invited the first group of American Peace Corps volunteers to come back to Korea, so they can visit again and see how their help changed Korea.
As well as, so they could see old friends that worked together to help Korea in the past.
The Korea Foundation also wanted to introduce them correctly to the Korean Culture through lectures, cooking classes, art performances, tourism and experiencing every day life in Korea. (http://www.kf.or.kr)

This is the 7th time since 2008 that the Peace Corps was invited to Korea.

That being said, today we joined them for a "Baechu" and "Kkak-ddu-ki" Kimchi cooking class. Our kind teacher lead the class very well along side a translator and a few other cookers, all of us had a great time. Talking to them we could feel how happy they were, and asking about what they think of Korea's reward to them, the answer was unanimous: "Even thou some of us, and our families, helped many countries during the war, Korea was the only one who every tried to share too. I'm really happy to be here, and see how good this country has become."

After talking to the Korea Foundation staff there, we were told that they still want to do a lot more to share with those who helped them before, and there's still a lot more work to be done. Hearing that made us feel very happy to be a part of it, and wish we could do more as well too.

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu

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