The_Role_of_International_Development

After the Second War World, people started to get acquainted with the phrase ‘international development’. International development is different from simple development. According to Wikipedia, international development is specifically composed of institutions and policies that focus on alleviating poverty and improving living conditions in Third World decolonized countries. These days are called ‘era of globalization.’ The countries all over the world find benefits from each other when they cooperate. As a result, international cooperation programs have been strongly presented to help develop international relationships. ASEAN Millennium Leaders College Student Exchange Program is one of those mentioned programs. It’s a good opportunity that the Republic of Korea gives to ASEAN students. Through this program, selected ASEAN students would become representatives of their own country to bring their culture, introducing it to international friends, as well as get knowledges and experiences about the other countries as much as they can. After that, they would come back to their own countries with what they get though the proram to chase bigger goals. Some might think that big changes wouldn’t happen just because of few undergraduate students. But the truth is, if each country send not many representatives of theirs to attend this program every year, after about 10 years international relationships among those countries would become totally different. Besides, years after years, the number of the students who are gonna attend this program would surely highly increase. If those students gather up to popularize the knowledges they get during the time they spend in Korea, there’s no suspicion that big positive changes of international development are not far from their countries’ reach. In Our country perspective, ASEAN Millennium Leaders College Student Exchange Program is an important student exchange program. Our country has set up diplomatic relationship with the Republic of Korea since 1992. During the past two decades, the friendship between the two countries has been continuously consolidated and well developed on every aspect, such as politics, economics, culture, society, education, etc… The Republic of Korea has helped Our country a lot in developing our country. As a student majored in Korean studies, ASEAN Millennium Leaders College Student Exchange Program has a more special meaning to me. There’s tons of good things for me if I take part in this program. First of all, my languge skill would be greatly improved. Because I study with international friends while living in the Republic of Korea, both my English and Korean simultaneously would get better. My Korean Culture teacher once said that language is one of the most important things to help you come in contact with foreigners. Before getting closer to the others, people first have to understand each other. Second, the knowledges about my speciality would be extended day by day. Though my speciality in university is about Korean, I haven’t reached there before. My knowledges about Korean have just been got through televesion, internet, books, etc… Living in the Republic of Korea for a year is a splendid chance for me to direcly feel and watch everything about this dynamic country, such as Korean economics, Korean culture, Korean people, etc…