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Good News Corps Overseas Volunteers is a volunteer activity began with the name of ‘Overseas Field Experience’ in 2002 and launched in 2005 with the current name. After completing a required training based on the spirit of Christianity, the Good News Corps dispatches the GNC Overseas Volunteers to host countries for one year. They do many kinds of activities such as free academies (computer, piano, Taekwondo, dance, English, Korean Class, etc) for the natives of that country. They also partake in cultural exchange and perform missionary work that allows volunteers to play a role as an unofficial ambassador beyond a wall of culture with natives. Here they challenge new environments and learn strong minds and humble personalities, which is necessary fot future leaders to have.



 
 
 
Tae-An Service (Alternative School, Korea)
An oil band from the oil tanker accident covered the west coast of Korea, the shore of Taean. The Alternative School students visited. Nature and humans coexist and live together. Therefore, sea pollution relates to our lives. It became a chance to understand the fishermen’s heart, whose means of living is the sea, and they suffer together with for even a little while learning the meaning of a life of living together.

Mandarin Picking (Jeju Island in Korea, Japan)
Every year in November and December IYF college students from Busan, Masan, and Gwangju in Korea go for Mandarin picking volunteering service to Jeju Island and Shimonoseki in Japan. They visit a Mandarin orchard, which cannot be harvested due to a lack of workers and help on the farm. They also feel the joy of harvest as they sweat with the farmers. Especially the visits to Shimonoseki, Japan were not only for volunteering service, but they continued with cultural exchanges at the Shimonoseki City College and performances at a Nursing Home that it is leading to a fair of friendship between Korea-Japan and cultural exchanges.

Flood Restoration (Korea)
In 2003, the Daegu region IYF visited an orchard at Young-yang, Kang-won in Korea and helped to organize the ruined orchard and wash apples covered with mud from a flood as if they would wash the hearts of despondent farmers. In 2006 when heavy rain hit Garisanri, Inje, Kang-won province, the whole town almost washed away, IYF college student members volunteered to restore the flood damaged areas and share their hearts with the farmers.
 
 
 
The IYF contributed to many global meetings’ success by volunteering to translate at 2002 Korea Japan World Camp. We provided superior quality translators for English, Spanish, Chinese, Portugal, Polish, and etc so that there was no lack of communication between each country’s leaders, team officers, and honored guests. Since then, at the 2005 Busan APEC, the 2007 Yeosu International Youth Festival, the 2009 Busan World Community Athletic Event, and other international events, the role of Good News Corps Overseas Volunteers, born translating volunteers, is not only the successful progress of the meeting, but also to look closely at foreigners’ heart, give counsel, and help plant Korea in their hearts.
 
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