The following is a list of tours and educational opportunities. AK Connection does not claim that this is a complete list, nor have our members participated in every program. Please contact each program directly for more information.
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Tours to Korea
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Family tours with an adoption focus; Visit your Korean adoption agency; Meet with birth; mothers at a maternity home; Visit with students in a high school; Dine in a private home; And sometimes meet with a birth relative or foster mother.
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An adoption tour with a personal touch, small travel groups; visit cultural and historical sites including Seoul and Kyong-ju; visit schools and the home of a Korean family; visit adoption agencies, foster parents, maternity homes, orphanages, etc.
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Since the summer of 1996 our exchange program has matched American and Korean families hoping to help them make connections to each other. We try to match by age and sex of children. So that they can build a friendship.
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Holt Motherland Tours provides adult adoptees age 18 and older, with a unique experience of traveling back to their birth country with others "who are just like me". Family Tours are for Korean adoptees, their families and Holt supporters.
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The three-week summer program begins with an orientation where participants get to know each other and prepare for the days ahead. During the orientation, participants discuss a broad range of issues, including: the impact of increased globalization.
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The program's focus is to promote Korea's rich cultural heritage, and to give the resident Koreans abroad a chance to explore their motherland and gain better understanding of Korea through language study, cultural training and touring.
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Shilla Travel lets you discover the bountiful tourism opportunities in both South and North Korea, countries which has luckily escaped any form of mass tourism.
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Adoptees are able to visit Korea to learn more about the culture, heritage and people of their birth country. All expenses are piad except for air travel and domestic travel from Busan/Jejudo/Seoul.
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This motherland tour of South Korea designed by adult adoptees will take place immediately following the conclusion of KAAN 2008 in Chicago.
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To take a Spiritual Journey to Korea to explore your true self and build spiritual friendships with participants and host families.A $5,000 scholarship covers roundtrip airfare, room and board, transportation and activity fees.
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Educational Opportunities
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This program offers a fall and spring program to study and live in Korea. Participants selected for the Spring 2008 program will receive full scholarships.
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InKAS provides Korean language scholarships to overseas Korean adoptees in association with a grant from the Ministry of Health and Welfare at the following Language Institutes: Ewha, Korea, Kyunghee, Seoul, Sogang and Yonsei University. 18+
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