1. Internship & FTRA Program
International Exchange &
Cultural Promotion Institute
Internship & FTRA Program

2. Mission of ICI 국제교류문화진흥원
International Exchange & Cultural Promotion Institute
We study Korean history and culture, as well as educate the people.
We make the base so that Koreans can tell about Korean culture
on the world stage.
We do various international exchange and volunteer work.
We foster young leaders to promote the Korean spirit to the world.
We contribute to the development of world culture through
Korean cultural promotion.

3. ICI Internship & FTRA to learn about Korean history & culture
to support and help with
Korean children & youth

4. ICI Internship & FTRA Program
ICI Internship & FTRA Program offers touring cultural heritage sites in Seoul and supporting Korean children & youth in their learning.
You get to learn Korean history & culture in depth and help the young with their learning and activities!

5. ICI Internship Recruiting Schedule
2014 July Internship
June 21 ~ June 30
Apply
Send CV by
July 1 ~ July 4
(ICI Headquater)
Interview
Further information will be noticed
July 5 ~ July 6
Orientation & Education
July 11
Submit assignment by July 11

6. ICI Internship Program
Period : Three months
Working Hours: Sat. or Sun 09:00 – 19:00
Working Site: Gyeongbokgung Palace, Royal Tombs, Duksugung Palace
Museums, Seodaemun Prison Historic Hall , etc
Benefit : ① Internship certificate
② 50,000 won per one day
(Compensation for the transportation & lunch)
③ Learning Korean culture and history

7. ICI Foreign Tourist Role Actor (FTRA) Program
Period of Acting : six months at least (after the internship)
One Class Working Hours: Sat. or Sun
30minutes : FTRA meeting and students greeting
two hours class
ten minutes review
Working Site: Gyeongbokgung Palace, Royal Tombs, Duksugung
Palace, Museums, Seodaemun Prison Historic Hall , etc
Benefit : FTRA ① 50,000 won per one class (Compensation)
② Helping Korean students
③ Participating volunteer service
④ Learning Korean culture and history
Remark
-Intern should participate in Meet Talk Play for Korean
Culture Study.
-FTRA should participate one day volunteer activity every
one month.
-FTRA should care the children untill they meet their parents.
-Compensation will be
adjusted after one year by the evaluation.

8. Benefits 2014 ICI Internship & FTRA Program
Opportunities for further educational & cultural programs
Various volunteering opportunities & Make friends
Learn Korean history and culture in depth
Visit different cultural heritage sites in Korea
Benefits

9. 2013 ICI Internship & FTRA Program
Work & Duty

10. 2014 ICI Internship & FTRA Program
YCC Support
YCC is a youth volunteering group. Every weekend, they give a free English tour to both Korean & foreigners at various cultural sites.
You are to help ICI educate and support them during the activity.

11. 2014 ICI Internship & FTRA Program
Mariestory
Mariestory is the program to educate the children & youth how to introduce Korean history and culture to foreigners.
You are to support them improve such skills in a tourist role.

12. Job description for international students
1. To meet and help Korean youth as an assistant of Korean teachers.
- Check attendance before the classes
- Be a tourist role actor and listen to children's speech
- Take care of children when they move to other place
2. To support YCC(Youth Cultural Corps.) students' volunteering work.
- Check attendance before volunteering work
- Take care of YCC students while they are volunteering

13. 2013 ICI Internship & FTRA Program
Student interns
with YCC
at Gyeongbokgung Palace
Student interns are receiving educating about Changgyeonggung Palace

14. After the internship..
MarieStory - Thoughts and feedback upon finishing my internship
Brendan Elworthy
Internship Period : ~
Right off the bat, I want to say that I think my experience with Marie-story was a great learning opportunity! More than anything else, I got to experience a couple different fields of work, and I was able to get a feel for how these fields function. For example, through Marie-story I was able to try my hand at editing a wide variety of texts such as elementary kid’s textbooks and comics aimed for young teens. I was also able to help kids from the 1st grade all the way up to high-school students, quite a diverse crowd. Through this experience I developed my own teaching style, which is that I’m firm when I first meet the students, but then as we go on I make room for fun and learning later on.
I think these past months have given me a glimpse into the kind of job that I would like to have once I graduate. I’ve always liked kids, and through this job I was able to figure out that I would take teaching kids and interacting with other people over working in an office any-day. I’ve made lots of great memories with the kids that I taught here, and over the course of the last couple months I got to know a couple of them as I often had more than one class with them. We were able to have a fun time learning history and practicing English together!

15. (…) The thing that makes Marie-story stand out is that they always strive to understand and accept other’s mistakes while at the same time they strive to perfect their own mistakes. I saw this in the past couple months, when the staff at Marie-story began to hold regular meetings with the teachers and FTRAs before class, to remind them to stick to their lesson plans and look after the kids in a orderly fashion. I think it is quite admirable in the sense that the company can see something that needs fixing, and then take steps to fix it. The teaching model of having a FTRA help the kids for an hour or two hours at a time also helped reinforce a sense of responsibility within me, and I feel like I am more capable leader because of it.
On a more personal note, this was the first time that I’ve ever had the opportunity to teach kids of this age; I’ve tutored university students before, but I’ve never had the chance to work with kids on a professional level. It was a great experience, and it helped solidify my desire to become a teacher. I don’t know what the future will hold for me, but I’m sure that I would like to work with kids for at least part of my career, and this is in a large part due to the opportunity offered to me by Marie-story. I’m leaving Korea in a few short weeks, and I will undoubtedly miss the kids, staff, co-teachers, FTRAs and others that I’ve come to know at Marie-story over the past few months. It’s been a great experience, I’m so glad I was given this opportunity! I’d like to offer my sincerest thanks to the staff at Marie-story, in particular 유정희 원장님 and 장현주 선생님, you’ve both made this an unforgettable experience!

16. My Marie-story Colin Brown
FTRA Period : ~ present
My name is Colin Brown and I am veteran instructor at Mariestory. I originally come from the east coast of the United States, but have lived in Korea for over five years, studying as an international student in several of Korea’s best universities.
After doing my major in East Asian history for my undergraduate studies in the United States, I came to Korea as an exchange student to study Korean history and language. After my exchange was finished, I continued to stay and study Korean language in the Ewha University language school. It was during this time that I became aware of the Mariestory history education program. Because of my interest and background in history I was eager to become involved and after undergoing training, began my teaching in the fall of 2010.
After moving on to continue my Korean studies in Sogang University I continued to work with Mariestory. While most international students spend there weekends sleeping or hanging out with their friends, I got used to spending my weekends with handfuls of energetic kids who can be a lot of fun or a big headache. But, I have to say I really enjoy their individual personalities and it was a great opportunity for me to cultivate my ability to teach history. In 2011, I entered grad school in Korea University and recently completed my masters in International Development. During my graduate studies I was tired and stressed, so having to participate every weekend was tough. But I made it my mission to make the students I had laugh and hopefully help them to learn more at the same time. In turn the kids make me laugh and in a way my experience at Mariestory helped me to survive through grad school.

17. From the beginning the concept of Mariestory was very intriguing to me
From the beginning the concept of Mariestory was very intriguing to me. Having seen a number of different academies and weekend English programs in Korea for school children, using English education as a way to empower students with a cultural identity and a way to introduce their country’s history to foreigners in the future is a really great idea in my opinion. Prior to working in Mariestory, I recall seeing a number of similar weekend history programs in several museums that I visited. But these programs were only in Korean and seemed a bit dull with older instructors who had already past their prime. Mariestory reinvented this idea and gave it a new, energetic, and outward thinking spin.
Looking back on my time at Mariestory is strange because I still feel like a new teacher, but its been more then three years now and I have seen many of my coworkers come and go. Not just coworkers, but I have met a lot of students, watched them grow, and see them graduate the program. My favorite part of this job is probably meeting the student who I had when they were young and seeing how far they have come. It’s really rewarding when your student gives you the same explanation or uses the same antidote to explain something that you taught them more then a year ago; that’s when you know that you’ve done a good job. I hope that I can continue to share my knowledge with students and help them to gain a better appreciate for the rich history of Korea which I have grown to value as much as the history of my own country. Hopefully we can have some fun in the process.