Chungcheongnam-do

▲ Overseas public officials participating in K2H (Korea Heart to Heart) training program

Chungcheongnam-do announced that the K2H (Korea Heart to Heart) training program will be held for six months from the 23rd of this month to October 10. K2H is designed to invite government officials of overseas countries that have relationships with Chungcheongnam-do and assist them to learn the Korean language and experience the culture and local government administration of Chungcheongnam-do.

This year, three government officials in charge of communications, protocol and international exchange respectively were invited from Long An, Vietnam, Siem Reap, Cambodia and Qinghai, China.
Started in 2004, K2H aims at strengthening the friendship between Chungcheongnam-do and overseas local governments and foster human resources that will play the role as a bridge for exchange between the organizations.

Up to last year, 50 overseas government officials have visited Chungcheongnam-do through this program. Chungcheongnam-do provides customized training to help overseas government officials experience local government administration in the areas of their choice while staying in Chungcheongnam-do. It also offers a variety of programs through which the invited government officials can learn and experience the Korean language and culture.

This year, in particular, an orientation program to introduce Chungcheongnam-do and its public organizations is provided so as to assist the trainees adapt themselves swiftly to the new environment concurrently with a mentoring program to match each trainee with a provincial government official of Chungcheongnam-do.

“K2H serves as a foundation for Chungcheongnam-do's international relationships to be developed further through the expansion of overseas human networks,” said an insider of the Chungcheongnam-do Office. “We will prepare programs to help the trainees who are to live away from home for a long time successfully complete the training program by exchanging with the government officials of Chungcheongnam-do.”