An educational program in which elementary school students can learn about Asian culture will take place at the Gwangju Youth Training Center, in Gwangju, from January 13 to 15. The extracurricular class is being spearheaded by the government’s Agency of Culture for Children, part of the Asian Culture Complex, a cultural facility and memorial plaza in Gwangju that is scheduled to open in 2015.

The "Meeting With Asian Tales Through Digital Animation” workshop, which will be included in the ongoing program, teaches children about Asian cultures by letting them make their own cartoons and comic strips based on Asian myths and folklore. It is designed to help children understand Asian culture not by simply reading comics or watching cartoons but by producing their own cartoons based on Asian tales.

The young participants will get acquainted with the myths, tales, folklore and stories, as well as the traditional clothes and foods, of Mongolia, China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. They will then learn how to deliver and express their stories and to create story ideas before using tablet PCs to turn their ideas into scripts and to produce animated cartoons.

“This program will help children approach Asian culture in a friendly way and help them to understand cultural and artistic activities and to improve their expression and creativity,” said an official from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST).





By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
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