Hafiz Mungin: Local Adjustment Training: Day 02

Our second day of training started with a briefing on the online application that all participants need to aware of; NEST, which stands for Network for Schools and Teachers. It was an online portal for all exchange teachers to sumbit their bi-weekly reports and documents regarding the projects which would be conducted at their respective schools.

The next slot continued with a talk on the Korean Education System. As a young nation who achieved her political stabilization just around 30 years ago, it is quite astounding that they were able to pursue the modernization thus becoming one of the Asian Tigers. With the help of preceding educational policies that helped to generate human capital that they can be proud of today.

The programme then continued with the slot on Korean Society and Culture where we were introduced with the traditional garments like Hanbok, as well as other cultural stuff like Chuseok Festival, kimbab, kimchi, ttoek, as well as the social manners like offering the drinks to the elders. During the session, our Malaysian ambassador personnel had dropped by and wished us all the very best of luck in completing the 3 months programme in South Korea.

We were then taken to the Korean National Museum of Contemporary History and visited the statue of King Sejong the Great. I was so enlivened to be able to immerse in the history of a nation that I used to not interested of, and now having the knowledge of her past history, seemed like bringing me to look the South Korea or the Korean Peninsula from a different sentimental point of view.