About the site

How were the images selected?

It is important to note that this website is designed to provide stimuli material to support study about Korea. The images and themes underpinning the website are not meant to be fully representative of life in Korea. Rather, the images and themes are small vignettes that will hopefully provide a platform for further study and inquiry.

The images were selected from Koreana, a Korean Art and Culture Journal published quarterly in hard copy and online by The Korea Foundation . You can visit http://www.koreana.or.kr to access the journal online. In 2006 and 2007, more images from Koreana will be added to this website.

The images were selected to provide insights into these themes:

• Ideas and Influences
• twenty-first century snapshots
• the Environment: manufactured and natural
• then and now.

Rollovers

Screen size photographic images are a feature of the Go Korea website. Information about each image is provided in the form of rollovers:

• rollovers appear as the cursor is scrolled over the photographic image
• the number of rollovers and the extent of the information for each image varies.
• information provided is not exhaustive and is provided as an entry point for further inquiry, discussion and investigation.
• rollovers can be printed out by clicking on the print icon in the top right hand corner of the screen.
  

Information for teachers

Why study Korea?

Korea is a country with rich historical and cultural traditions. It is also one of the fastest developing countries in Asia, noted for its extraordinary innovations in technology. But Korean society has not been widely studied by Australian students, even though Australia has strong connections with Korea through historic, economic and cultural links and educational exchanges.

Who will use this website?

This website provides an interactive learning environment for middle years students that supports study about Korea in the learning areas of Studies of Society and Environment, English and the Arts. It provides resources and activities that are accessible for students from upper primary to middle secondary school. The themes and images provide insights into contemporary Korea, as well as glimpses into Korea's historic and cultural traditions and the role they play today. Through the images and rollover text with information and web links, students can explore current issues in Korea and inquire into diverse aspects of Korean life.

Some websites that are linked from this site contain film clips and will require a movie player to view them. There are links from these sites to a page where you can download this software if you do not already have it. The images on this site cannot be resized. Therefore, if you have any items of navigation on your computer (such as a permanently displayed 'dock') this may interfere with the navigation of the site and should be re-positioned. The print button which appears on the top right of each image will print off all of the roll-over texts for that image.

About the authors

Ms Loretta Glass

'I visited South Korea in 2004 as a participant in the Korean Studies Workshop Program hosted by the Korea Foundation and supported by the Asia Education Foundation. It was a very significant experience for me. I had previously known little about Korea, and I was surprised and inspired by my visit to the country. I have enjoyed learning about Korea and am delighted to share some of that with you.'

Loretta Glass is the Education Officer for the Victorian Association of Social Studies Teachers. She has been a secondary teacher for eight years in rural and city schools and worked for six years as an Electoral Education Officer with the Australian Electoral Commission where she developed a keen interest in Civics and Citizenship Education.

Dr Libby Tudball

'After my trip to Korea in 2005 on the Korean Studies Workshop Program, I am keen to share what I learned about this exciting country. The neon lights and huge shopping centres in the cities are amazing, and the peace and beauty of the rural areas are quite a contrast. The rich ancient heritage that is still part of contemporary Korea is also astounding.'

Libby Tudball is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. She has been a teacher educator for 20 years and has a special interest in Social Education, Studies of Asia, Civics and Citizenship and the internationalisation of curriculum. She frequently works with teachers in professional learning programs.

Acknowledgement

Go Korea! has been developed by the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) through Curriculum Corporation with financing from the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to Australia.

The website provides an interactive learning environment for middle years students that supports study about Korea in the learning areas of Studies of Society and Environment, English, and the Arts.

The images around which the website is organised are drawn from the Koreana publication, a Korean Art and Culture Journal published quarterly in hard copy and online by The Korea Foundation.

The AEF is a foundation of the Asialink Centre at The University of Melbourne and Curriculum Corporation, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training.

Authors:
Dr Libby Tudball
Loretta Glass
Jill Wilson

Project Management:
Kurt Mullane, Asia Education Foundation
Richard Laurie, Curriculum Corporation

Other Contributors:
Jee Chang-sun, Korea Foundation
Choi Hyunsoo , Korea Foundation
Minister Kim Ill-Doo, Education Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Korea
Jan Kiernan, Studies of Asia and Australia Advisor, Tasmania
Jennifer Ure, Studies of Asia and Australia Advisor, Northern Territory
Maureen Welch, Asia Education Foundation
Jill Wilson, Asia Education Foundation
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