KSIF and Holt Children’s Services to provide Korean language education to adoptees

KSIF-Holt business agreement signed at 10AM, November 19th in Seocho-dong
Cooperation in teaching Korean language and culture to adoptees, adopting families and the socially underprivileged

▲ Kang Hyounhwa, the President of KSIF (left) and Holt Children’s Services Chairman Kim Hohyeon (right) signed a business agreement for ‘Cooperation in Korean Language and Culture Education for Overseas Adoptees and Their Adopting Families’ at 10AM on November 19th.

The KSIF will be working with Holt Children’s Services to provide Korean language and culture education to Korean children adopted abroad and their adopting families.

The King Sejong Institute Foundation (KSIF, president: Kang Hyounhwa) and Holt Children’s Services (Holt, Chairman Kim Hohyeon) signed a business agreement for ‘Cooperation in Korean Language and Culture Education for Overseas Adoptees and Their Adopting Families’ at 10AM on November 19th at the KSIF headquarters in Seocho-dong, Seoul.

Under the agreement, the KSIF and Holt will provide Korean language and culture education to Korean overseas adoptees who wish to visit their home country, and families abroad adopting Korean orphans. The two organizations will also provide educator training programs to build professional competency for Korean language and cultural classes offered to socially underprivileged children a Holt Dream Center locations in Nepal, Mongolia, Cambodia and Tanzania.

Kang Hyounhwa, the President of KSIF expressed high hopes for KSIF-Holt cooperation : “The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Holt Children’s Services to suspend its various homecoming programs for Korean adoptees living overseas, and it is in response to this challenge that KSIF and Holt have come together in cooperation for Korean language and culture education. Our cooperation is all the more meaningful in that it aims to support identity-building in Korean adoptees; we hope the Korean language and cultural education provided by KSIF will help Korean adoptees find their identity as Koreans, and develop and understanding of their home country together with their adopted parents.”