Name: Pautcharayar Palasudhi
University: Burapha University

Through this exchange program, my Korean has improved a lot. I have learned more about Korean people. I have learned more how the world was, and this program equipped me with useful skills and knowledge as well as broadening my perspectives in the approach to managing sophisticated real-life problems and challenges.

Name: Dang Cam Thu
University: Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City

Those are knowledge and friendship. All the professors are so knowledgeable. They always make us study constantly to fill our knowledge gaps. For our friendship, I have a chance to learn a lot from my excellent international friends. They are also really nice to me. We’ve studied a lot from each other not only in academic and social areas but also in daily aspects of life.

Name: Eung Chhor Yi
University: Royal University of Phnom Penh

The experience that I have gained through interacting with other college students from other countries as well as the knowledge that I have learned in the class with the professors are the most useful for me, moreover, the network of friendship that we have built together during the program is also the most precious one.

Name: Le Hong Ha
University: Vietnam National University- Ho Chi Minh City

We can learn much knowledge from ASEAN countries. We can also have good chance to discover and get experience from ASEAN friends without going directly to each countries. Moreover, we have made many Korean friends. They are also an important role to make us know more and love Korea.

Name: Bates Marana Bathan
University: University of the Philippines

The program itself for it opened a lot of doors for me like internship at Daedeok Science Town (The Hub of Science and Technology in Korea); chance to learn from top-caliber professors, excellent in their own rights, and who has been teaching us courses which are either supplemental for my field or just new to me; learning Korean language which I can use if I intend to look for jobs in a Philippine-based Korean company or for further studies / job opportunities in Korea; and most especially the connections I established as well as the friends I gained during the duration of the program.

Name: Dwiayutia
University: Universitas Indonesia

The most useful thing in the program is the information and knowledge
transfer among ASEAN students and also Koreans. It is very valuable to get to know how things are happening in our own country, exchange it with our peers during the class, receive information about Korea and finally, it gave different point of views from each of us.

Name: Lee Damaguen Gano
University: University of the Philippines

Learning Korean experience through the strong and well-designed academic programs provided by the DJU is the most useful asset of this exchange program. The opportunity to be handled by bright and respected professor has also been essential in bringing out the best in me as a student and as a representative of my country. The classes, including the field trips, are holistic in approach thus providing the opportunity for me to grow in different aspect and fields of study. It is surprising to think that I have learned a lot of things about Korean in a very short span of time.

I am confident that all the things that I have learned will be valuable to my future.

What impressed you about Daejeon City and Daejeon University?

Name: Ooi Kelly
University: Universiti Sains Malaysia

As for Daejeon City, I was impressed with the efficiency of the public transport system provided by the government especially the machine that tells the time of the bus’s arrival. This shows that privatization of public services is not the one and only means to gain efficiency. Efficiency of public services can be achieved by proper planning and good allocation of resources.

For Daejeon University, I was impressed with the way students are encouraged to separate the garbage. It is indeed in line with Korea’s policy of sustainable economy. I was also extremely touched by the hospitality and friendship offered by the staff of Daejeon University’s International Office, professors and students.

Name: Suci Lestari Yuana
University: Gadjah Mada University

Studying in Daejeon University I feel like treated as a princess. It isn’t too much I guess, since the facilities and the hospitality they provide us in order to give comfortable study environment. I really appreciate all the efforts that they have done here.

Name: Neo Zhi Yong Patrick
University: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The people, the food, the culture, the weather, and everything.

Name: Romora Edward Sitorus
University: Gadjah Mada University

Daejeon City is the fifth largest populated city in Republic on Korea. However, compared with other cities, it is focusing on research and industrial expansion. I can say that Daejeon serves as a peaceful, enjoyable and quiet place to study and learn about common korean life. In Korea, almost every city is equally developed in the sense of public transportation and information infrastructure. This atmosphere surrounds us with the ultimate culture and lifestyle of Korean people wherever we are in the southern part of Korean peninsula.

Daejeon University itself is a good university with great facilities and excellent professor. We have no big problem staying in the modern dormitory that we live in. it's convenient except the food that we are not used to eat and limited television programme that we could watch in there. We are very fortunate to have good professor to teach us the inside information about Korean economy and culture. They know well about their subjects and they are really sincere and enthusiastic to communicate and help us during our study here. We are so thankful for that.

Name: Charybel D. Magbuo
University: De La Salle University

Daejeon City provides easy access to all of the country and you can easily move to another city by their public transport system. The Daejeon University provides all the foreign students equal rights with the local students.

Name: Janejira Piyamahapong
University: Burapha University Thailand

The transportation in Daejeon and Korea as a whole impressed me very much. People in Daejeon are friendly and so are people in the university. There are many places in Daejeon for us to travel, and we have been to almost every interesting place. As for the university, the dormitory is really comfortable. The food in the dormitory…sometimes it is not that great, but still consumable. Classrooms are really nice and Gymnasiums are great, but friends impressed me the most.
Name: Khampaseuth Xanghomvilay
University: National University of Laos

Daejeon itself is great. There’s scenery, plenty to do and generally it’s all much more expensive and modern than my country, Laos. It is also one of the most enjoyable places for hanging out with friends.

Daejeon University was established in 1981, has been one of the fastest growing private university in Korea, and shown excellence in the quality of the research, scholarship, and graduations.

Most Korean parents deem education very important and are eager to provide their children with the best education possible. The education system itself is very competitive, and students must sacrifice a lot of time and go through stressful exams to get into the best universities. All the Koreans I met told me that high school was the worst period in their lives. And most of them love studying and working hard, as I had noticed them when they are studying in the library. So I believed that all students

Name: Nguyen Huyen Trang
University: Vietnam National University

I am feeling like Daejeon city is my second hometown and Daejeon University is my sweet home. Everything here is really beautiful and wonderful. People and nature have become so familiar with me.

Name: Peh Bee Ching
University: University of Malaya

It was a great city with the high technology and allocated most of the important research institute in the nation. Daejeon University is a potential university to become one of the prestigious university of the nation with the
well-developed facilities and talented scholars.

Name: Mr.Viwat Sakoolhrung
University: Chulalongkorn University

Daejeon University is one of the good university that I have seen. The impressed thing for me about Daejeon University is people like friends and Professor. I also have a lot of Korean friends too. I think that they are really good and we can still be friend even if I return to my own country

Name : Ardhyana Rokhmah Pratiwi
University : Universitas Indonesia

I learned a lot here. I want to mention everything. However, ten pages will not be enough for my stories. But one of the best things that I got here is I learn how to see people. A big portrait of humanity. When I see people from different cultural, national, religious, educational background, I am able to see that the world is full of diversity. The experience to learn not to judge people by its cover. That whatever it is that looks bad in our view is actually beautiful inside. I felt that. And learning about friendship and appreciating people, really give me a lot. Sometimes people are full of stereotype about my religion. I felt it really hurtful sometimes. I would like people to appreciate me and treat me fairly like they treat others. Then I think, if I want people to appreciate me, then I should appreciate them.

Name: Chooi Yan Wei
University: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

During my internship we need to travel from Daejeon University to the work place. I experience the Korean working culture where I have to wake early to work and also get to explore myself to the work place. I need to take city bus and also the subway to the work place. It taught me a lot on how to be independent in a land that was totally new to me. Besides that, it was a great opportunity for me to learn about the working culture in the institutes.

Name: Mr. Joe Phanouvong.
University: National University of Laos.

My experience which I have learnt from this program is various, so I can not point out the best one. One of my best experiences is living, studying and doing many activities with many foreign friends, who from different culture, background, and different environment which always give me new knowledge that can not be found in the book. What I mean is I know much about foreign friends’ countries real situations and the case of Korea, many things are very new to me. And for sure, my another best experience is studying every subject in English which quite hard to me at the beginning, but really helpful to me as I took English as one of my majors. But, I was gradually accustomed to it and it’s not too hard to handle it. As a result, my English skill in term of making report, long report or even some presentations, including speaking proficiency are getting better and better.

Name: Maisya Farhati
University: Gadah Mada University

It's hard to decide what my best experience is, because being here is already the great experience. But because this is my first time living overseas, so now I know the feeling of becoming foreigner, and it teaches me a lot. There are so many differences between Korea and my country so I have to compromise myself to be able to adapt with Korean culture and all Korean life style. But still I have to defense myself from the things that I am prohibited to do. Living in other country shouldn't make me forget and ignore the way I am as muslim. I do respect every culture but I do have my own life rule. And living here with many people from various countries enrich my point of view of seeing many problems and phenomenons in this world.

Name: Horeb Elliot S. Dagandan
University: University of the Philippines

Apart from the academic aspects that have really sharpened my skills, I say that merely living in DJU with 10 more nationalities (Japanese and Chinese included), hearing 11 different stories, 11 unique life narrations said in 11 different languages, celebrating cultural differences, transcending language and symbolic barriers—this one experience has bought tons more to it that I could never have imagined.

Name: Kenneth Koh
University: Universiti Sains Malaysia

a. Learning Korean Language. I never knew I will blend so well in learning this language, kudos to my Korean Language Professor!
b. All the trips around Korea! We won’t be able to travel around Korea, even to North Korea without support from AUN-DJU with all the financial support and also technical supports.
c. All the friends (ASEAN, Koreans, Chinese, New Zealand, USA) that I met here in Korea, they are the one made the difference because learning everything I stated above is not enough, but having to know them made a difference during my stay in Korea.

Name: Nastassja B. Quijano
University: University of the Philippines

Staying in Korea for almost a year, zeroing in one experience to be the best is really difficult. However, I can say that truly the best experience for me is having the chance to go to Geumgansan, North Korea. I can say that it is really a rare chance for us to travel there especially being foreigners. It was cool, it could even be a great conversation piece, but what I got from the experience is really beyond that. First of all, it showed me the great commitment of Daejeon University to do their best for us. It was probably even out of their plans, but they still did all the arrangements to allow us to come. During the trip they were also very accommodating and welcomed us in their group and there I felt that I was really a part of the community and in spite of our differences, between or among us, we still enjoyed our time and supported each other.

Also, I have become more aware of the issues surrounding my host country and its domestic matters. I feel that although Korea is separated on more explicit terms, each country also experiences some division of their own, one way or the other. And so, what I thought which was very inspiring is that despite this, South Korea is making efforts in having good relations between them. Not out of guilt or whatsoever, but of the genuine desire to give their brothers a better life. It really opened my eyes because I thought that these two areas are extremely separatists, but having this experience, it showed me that there is hope for them to unite and more than that work together as one. Of course, it will certainly not be an easy road. But I believe enough in the Korean people that they will be able to achieve this in time.

So, I may extend this observation to my personal relationships and even to the greater ones created between nations such as the ASEAN. The Koreans were a good model in showing that we should not stop reaching out and that concrete steps are also needed. We should begin by understanding eachother, having a shared vision, making programs and plans that can make both parties to work together, and from there can make things possible.

Name: Ngan, Nguyen Thi Hoang
University: Vietnam National University

There are so many good experiences you have leant from this program. One of the best I got is the independence in living, organizing my schedule and traveling. I might be talking about my amazing summer vacation later but it gave me a lot of experience about communicating and living together with foreign friends. The time staying with my roommate also is giving knowledge to adapt with new culture, new habits, new religion custom and various human behaviors I have never faced up before.

More importantly, according to our group work, discussion with Professors in DJU and among ASEAN friends, I was learnt many skills from them, such as presentation, schedule organizing, group discussing and information searching. With my Professors, I learnt big lessons from the lectures which might be significant to improve me in coming time.

Do you have any plan to utilize what you have learned and experienced from this program?

Name: Hazizah Ali
University: University Kebangsaan Malaysia

I’m planning to further my study in Korean language, and I’ve even been offered to try a space-industry related company in the future for a career. It’s all thanks to the company I’m working now. And I would really love to see my own country to develop certain credibility like this country.
Name: Lau Kine Lee
University: University of Malaya

As a East Asian study student, all the class that I had been gone through will be the best resource for my thesis. After this program, since we all stayed in korea for 10 months we might be the best diplomat between South East Asia and Korea.

Name: Natnicha Tewaditep
University: Chulalongkorn University

I plan to write a book about Korean culture as the books available in Thailand now are not update at all and Thai people know Korea only entertainment industry, so I think it might be go to do that, but I am not quite sure weather it can be accomplished or not.

And I plan to take more subjects related to international topic, such as understating Europe and ASEAN culture, and Economy class.

Moreover, this program changes me to be more confident. I learned lots of thing about Korea, but I just realize that I know nothing about my country. Now, I want to know more and learn more about what our government is doing, how the situation of Thai stock market is, and how foreigners think about Thailand.

After going back, I plan to travel more in Thailand and go to visit our ASEAN friends in their countries also.

Name: Ngan, Nguyen Thi Hoang
University: Vietnam National University

Planning to utilize these I have learnt and received from AUN and DJU is certainly what I have been thinking now. As many of my friends desired, I’m planning to come back to Korea in several years under a scholarship program and I might possibly work for a Korean company. However, the things I got from AUN is not only something engaged with Korea but also my far dream which are Master of Business Administration in a developed country. And also, the friendship of ASEAN students will motivate me to do everything confidently. I hope that I would a chance to work oversea and get more experience to open a company in my country in the far future.

Name: Yuin Yu Wei Freda
University: Nanyang Technological University

Yes I do have the intention of taking advantage of my experience in Korea and applying it to my future endeavors. I have considered doing a comparative thesis on Korea and Singapore in my final year as Sociology major upon my return to Singapore. I have also considered the potential of extending my career options to Korea. Korea has a fast expanding market and has a huge potential, I feel that my stay here in Korea have enhanced my opportunities to be able to take advantage of this expanding market in the near future for academic, career, and business opportunities.

Name: Channary Ou
University: Royal University of Phnom Penh

I plan to use Korean language that I’ve learnt here to help my dad with his business and from this 10 months experience I think it will help me a lot when I continue my Master Degree. Also if have chance, I’ll come to Korea again to take my Master Degree. As I’ve been to Korea so I think it wouldn’t be that hard for me to come here again.

Name: Len Vu Thanh
University: Vietnam National University- Hanoi

During the program, I had the opportunity to have internship in a Korean company in summer vacation. Working in that company, I know my strength and weakness. Now I am trying to overcome the weakness and I believe in my ability to do that.

Name: Witiya Janpan
University: Burapha University

I planed before came to Korea that I will to write about Korean lifestyle in Thai magazine. I believe nowadays publishing industry of Thailand quite lake information about Korea. Nevertheless, Thai people who interested in Korea increase more and more. Therefore, I decided to share my stories in publisher that I think they are useful for everyone. Moreover, I hope my articles will stimulate Thai teenaged to be ambitious to come to Korea by scholarship likes me.