Fiona Petite Traveler: Global Young Leaders Tourism Camp 2016 in South Korea

Hi there!

After a long time I finally have motivation to write again HAHA, but life's been pretty busy now so I got my excuses :p

So on today's post I'm going to tell everythingggg about my previous trip to South Korea as a delegate from Indonesia for an government based event called Global Young Leaders Tourism Camp held by Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korean Tourism Organization (KTO).

The event was held from July 19th - August 2nd 2016, about 3 weeks long!

**But all the delegates arrived in July 18th and went back to our countries in August 3rd**

I'm going to explain in order and as clear as possible for those who are curious or YOU who will be applying for this program next year! :)

FYI I also made a youtube video and it hit 21k views already!

Click here to watch : Imagine Your Korea | GYLTC 2016

Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ :

1. How to apply?

You have to find out about the program through Korean Tourism Organization in your country (I dont know if your country has it or not, but what I know for sure is they do have a branch in Indonesia).

The process started from applying - selection by CV - interview - then announcement!

For me, it wasn't very hard to apply because I got the information from my university, Trisakti School of Tourism (the best in the country for tourism!!) that has a good relationship with KTO Indonesia.

KTO selected 3 people from our uni to be the delegates representing Indonesia.

2. How much is application fee?

FREE!

Yes, very hard to believe right? I didnt spend a single penny to apply.

Visa, flight tikets, accomodation, full board meals, stationary, FREE IPHONE (we had to return it in the last day, but still awesome!) and EVEN ALLOWANCE on free days group program!

3. What's the schedule?

It will take forever if I write every singple thing I did there, because it was a really tight schdule full of lectures, workshop, leadership training and visitation to tourism objects. But overall, here I attach the schedule list!

For me, the highlight of this program were : (List from most favorite to least favorite)

1. Lecture about Tourism in South Korea

My favorite topic was about Alternative Tourism Depending on Seasons and Understanding Hallyu Culture. Most of lectures' english were great!

2. Country presentation

Each country was given 10 minutes to presentate their pride in tourism! It was a great opportunity for Indonesia to shine :D and was a great way for me to learn about other countries' amazing tourism as well.

3. Visitation to tourism object

YASSSSS. The most anticipated activity in our program hahaha :D

In total, we visited over than 20 tourism objects and all of it was mindblowingly good! We even learnt how to use drone :O

But there were some activities that I CANT FORGET for my whole life and here's some pictures!!

Note : picture doesnt go in order

Calligraphy made by me :D

Mulle Gil

Excited to watch Winter Olympics 2018!!

Before we do our country presentation! (Fiona - Cindy - Fadhila)

We wore Hanbok the whole day!! Was really sweaty and itchy. But we looked like royals so...worth it ;)

Probably the most famous actor in South Korea, his face was everywhere!

JEJUUU OLLEE

Trick Museum in Jeju

Nam San Tower

Padlocks in Nam Sam Tower, hung by couples who probably have broken up by now

Picture with Psy

GDragonnnn :""")

This one is realllllllll!!

HAHAHA enough with the picture, I still have like 1000 pictures to show youuu :> too bad cant upload it all in hereee

moving on...

4. FOODDDDD!!!

Literally, they gave us the best food everrr, everything was good. Except for flower bibimbab, they could've give us the regular bibimbab instead hmm..

I didnt even took picture of most of the good food because I was very excited to eat, I forgot to take pictures TEEHEE

Korean fried chicken 5000 Won

Flower Bibimbab, not good :( too pretty though

Bingsu with real mangoooo 8000 Won

Buffet in Shangrila Jeju. Fruit was weird and watery

Jjamppong in China Town, the most famous one but I forgot the restaurant name haha

Fish cake with rice cake inside 1000 Won

SUPER GOOODDD

4. Who were the participants?

Total 13 countries participated (South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh)

The total participants were 54 people (if I'm not mistaken hehe)

5. How about free time?

Well, if you want to join this program to enjoy free time....THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PROGRAM FOR YOU.

Yep, during those 3 weeks we had in total 3 days of free time BUT HOWEVER it didnt count as free time because we had to go with our group anytime anywhere and we had to do analysis report in the end of the day.

How about first day and last day where we didnt have schedule yet? In the first day I did get around 3 hours of free time and went outside near the Konkuk University. Last day we arrived in the hotel late at night and left to Indonesia early morning, so yeah no free time..

What do you expect...but it was still SO MUCH FUN :D

6. Who made this program?

Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korean Tourism Organization came up with the idea and with the help of Red Cap Tour they made this program happened.

How about Konkook / Konkuk University? Nope, they didnt have anything to do with this program, but we stayed in their dormitories and most of the activities took place there.

7. What's your thoughts during the program?

I was blown away by how organized this program, how much money and effort they put in to make this happen. Since day 1, there were nothing to complain about! Except for the very tight schedule, woke up every morning to have breakfast at 7 AM and we always ended our program of the day at around 10 PM minimum! We even slept at 3 AM one day to do all of our assignments and group projects. But I guess you cant really complain about that since it was the reason why we joined this program for. Now I miss those moments walking like zombies trying to stay awake during programs!

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Now I want to list all the things I received during the program :

1. GYLTC Tshirt

2. Backpack

3. Pencil case complete with pencils, pens, ruler, eraser, highlighter

4. Books (A LOT AND WAS VERY HEAVY)

5. Iphone 5s

6. Allowance for 3 days of free time (Around 150.000 Won per person, forgot the exact number)

7. Souvenirs

8. Gift : Ginseng soap, Aritaum face mask (For "student who asked a lot award" HEHE)

9. Dorm (2 people per room) comes with WiFi, towel, mineral water everyday

10. 2 pcs of 8GB SD Cards with drone footage of our group