A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between South Korea and New Zealand last year has opened opportunities of trading goods and services between two countries. Exchanges in services are expected to expand to diverse areas including culture and education. Therefore, both countries require human resources who are equipped with social and cultural understanding of both countries, and language, especially, is an important medium to deliver educational and cultural contents of both countries. [More]
The importance of Korean language is getting more significant in New Zealand. New Zealand government announced a plan of investing $10 million over five years for Asian language learning in New Zealand schools. This increased investment reflects importance of language learning and New Zealand needs people who know and speak diverse languages. For students, Korean is not only a language that can make them communicate with their family and understand the country of their own or parents but also plays a role of giving a chance to increase their value as future leaders who New Zealand wants. [More]