University Profile / Geopolitics

Last saturday we went on a Seoul Trip with Ajou Global Ambassadors (AGA), I just found out I didn't explained you before what AGA was standing for :D

I chose trip number 5, starting with National Museum of Korea near Itaewon during the morning, which was really interesting about the past of Korea, and Asia countries such as Japan and China.

National Museum of Korea

After a spicy lunch with my finnish friends, we went to Gyeongbokgung Palace located in the center of Seoul.

Gyeongbokgung Palace

We had the opportunity to see guards walking to the beat drums which was impressive which happens only on special time.The view was truly amazing with the mountains just behind this.

Guards

We spended one hour or so enjoying this beautiful palace inside seoul, near buildings and then we went to Hanok Village to wear traditional korean clothes. It was so fun, since I was wearing something like a mexican hat but the lady told me that it was for the old korean kings wearing this hat so after all it was fine.

Hanok Village

This day was amazing and we ended up at the Namsam tower but it was night and we couldn't see a great view from there, I guess i will go back once to enjoy Namsam's view by afternoon.

We had a special surprise during our trip, with so many protestant in the street which cause delay to our way back to Ajou University. I'll let you know about this in a special geopolitics article.

University Profile

Hello everyone,
It has been more than ten days since I arrived in South Korea, especially in Ajou University Campus in Suwon.
The AGA members had a warm welcome for us in order to make us feel more confortable about arriving in a foreign country without knowing anything about it.

We had two orientations days at the end of february, and we had the opportunity to visit the campus with our dear AGA buddys. Here is a picture of the statue from the main gate of Ajou University Campus.

Ajou university campus holds more than 14.000 students, with engineering department, business administration, or medecine. There are four different dormitory on the Campus, I am in the New International Dormitory which was built three years ago and is very clean. I took a picture of my room before the arrival of my Korean roommate. I'll do my best to take a picture with him to show you how nice he seems!

On our arrival we were recommended to go to a welcome party the next wednesday to get to learn more about koreans and international exchange students that will share the semester with us. It was organized in a chicken & beer restaurant which is a very common place in South Korea. Here is a small picture taken with Korean friends & few ESDES friends that shared this nice welcome party with me.

This party was really fun, I learnt about korean habits and social differences such as how we must pour drinks depends on the age of the person towards you. We have a Seoul trip soon I'll let you know about how it was§