This month, GKF board member Kathianne Crane and former GKF board member Richard Stevenson will be discussing their experiences as Peace Corps volunteers in South Korea during the 1960s and 1970s.

Kathianne served as a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea in 1967-1968. She was assigned to teach English at Taegu Girls Middle School in Taegu, a provincial capital in south east Korea. She will talk about her experience as a volunteer in the education program during the beginning years of Peace Corps in Korea. She will also discuss the history of Peace Corps in Korea from 1966-1981, and the unique continuing relationship between the former volunteers and Korea.

Richard lived in South Korea from 1970 to 1974. He spent his first two years as a Peace Corps volunteer serving in a public health center in Buan Gun, Jeollabuk Do, in rural southwest South Korea, which will be the focus of his discussion. He will address his reasons joining Peace Corps, functions within the WHO Model Tuberculosis Control Program in which he served, adjustments to a totally foreign setting, contributions to the population he served, and benefits he gained by so serving.

Complete event info can be found on our webinar page.