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Based on past participants’ experiences, we’ve organized the common themes of learning, reflection, and growth by time period.
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Traveling to an unfamiliar city or country is an experience where excitement and challenge coexist. Even if you set out with determination, unfamiliar surroundings can sometimes make you feel intimidated. Therefore, this mission is designed so that you...can adapt better to new environmentsand,build rich experiencesThis mission was created to help you accumulate richer experiences there. It will help make your experiences in an unfamiliar city gradually more special and become your own story.
Acknowledge the unfamiliar feelings you have upon just arriving, and challenge the new local culture and environment step by step, starting from small things. This will encourage you to try more activities and to feel and experience the locality more broadly. You will soon perceive the place as a more familiar space. Through this process, you will be able to more quickly and broadly...achieve growth in making it your own.
This mission focuses on three things.
1. Experience the local area more quickly
An unfamiliar city offers new opportunities and experiences. Through encounters with diverse cultures, food, and people, you have a chance to see the world more broadly. Through this mission, experience various cultures and immerse yourself in the local area. In that process, fear of new places will lessen, and comfort and respect will naturally grow.
2. Broaden your understanding of the local area
By expanding communication with people you meet locally and visiting a variety of local places, you will naturally broaden your range of activities and can understand the culture more deeply based on your expanded experiences. Visit areas that locals frequent, act like a local even if it feels awkward, and participate in local events—actively try activities that closely connect you with the community. These experiences provide opportunities to adapt quickly and blend into daily life there.
3. Learn how to become familiar even in an unfamiliar city
Try to gradually develop a comfortable and familiar feeling toward a city that may feel strange at first. If you have understood the local area quickly and broadly, bring those experiences naturally into your life. Create places you visit often. Continually try conversing with friends you can talk with comfortably. Through those repeated experiences, the unfamiliar city will gradually become your own space. Feeling comfortable in a new place is key to adaptation, and through this you can gain more confidence and integrate into local life.
'Local Adaptation' is a program designed to help you adapt more easily to unfamiliar and new environments and to embrace more experiences. This mission is structured so that if you steadily complete the provided tasks, you can create a wonderful gap year of your own.
These are key missions to make your valuable gap year time more meaningful and fulfilling, so try completing them quickly one by one. Through this process you'll find your own gap year direction, take on some challenging missions, and experience a range of emotions!
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3. Growth Mission + Growth ReportAmong those who applied for the Growth Mission + Growth Report, if you complete more than 60% of the missions, a consultant will prepareyour personalized reportthat you can receive.
(things you currently need, additional individual growth missions, extra insights about you, etc.)
Eligible Participants
- Any participant taking part in the gap year program for one week or longer
- Participants who want to grow through the missions
- Participants who want to become a better version of themselves
- Participants who want to try things they haven't done before
- Participants who want to make their gap year a bit more special and fun
- Participants who want to keep a lasting record of their gap year
Important Notes
- This is a participant-led project carried out by each participant according to the guidance provided by Gap Year.
- Participants are personally responsible for the execution of the missions and their outcomes. Korea Gap Year is not liable for these.
- The missions were written with a general profile in mind; if you find them excessive or unsuitable, you are encouraged to skip them or not complete them.
- This project is only open to participants who are taking part in an actual overseas Gap Year project.
- Copyright for the provided mission content belongs to Korea Gap Year, and sharing or re-editing it for others is prohibited. Violating this may result in legal penalties.
- Content and photos posted on blogs while carrying out Gap Year missions may be used by Korea Gap Year for promotion and marketing purposes.
- By reading this guide carefully, participants acknowledge that they fully understand its contents and will not hold Korea Gap Year legally or morally responsible in the future.
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