The Korean students visited the Taewkondo Academy that provides a place for refugee children ©THF

The Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation's (THF) Azraq Academy in Jordan hosted four university students from South Korea who visited the organisation as part of a cultural experience event.

The students came from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and are majoring in Arabic interpretation and translation.

The students visited the Academy as part of their project for public diplomacy.

The objective of the programme was to enhance the understanding of Korea and promote international friendship and relations through direct communication with foreign citizens, according to the THF.

The four Korean students called themselves Yalla Salam and visited more than 60 children at the Academy, aged between eight and 15-years-old.

The children participated in Korean activities and games as part of the cultural exchange ©THF
The children participated in Korean activities and games as part of the cultural exchange ©THF

The team brought educational aids, like an Arabic storybook of Korean culture.

The activities began with ice-breaker games where the children got to know the Korean team and vice-versa.

They then rotated around different cultural activities such as colouring in the Taegeukgi - the South Korean national flag - trying on traditional dress and playing traditional Korean games.

The children were taught to play jegichagi, a game in which players kick a paper "jegi" into the air and attempt to keep it aloft.

The Yalla Salam students finished the event by handing out souvenirs and jegi so that the children could keep playing the game with their friends.

The Azraq Academy is a taekwondo programme set up by the THF in the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan.

The refugee children and young people displaced by the Syrian war can practice the Korean martial art at the Academy and learn physical and mental well being despite their situation.