Recently, Concordia and Trinity Academy collaborated once again on a trip to Ansan here in South Korea. CEO Peter Lee from Concordia International University and Pastor Yoon-jae Jang from Trinity Academy travelled to Ansan, South Korea. Through our existing partnership with Trinity, we met with the director of the Hana Reading Culture Center, Guisun Heo.
Since we at Concordia specialize in higher education, we thought the Hana Reading Culture Center could potentially aid in the process of going from K-12 to higher education. The idea is to create a stronger pathway all the way from kindergarten to a college degree. Recently, we discussed with the Hana Reading Culture Center to further extend this existing pathway down to the younger side of our education chain.
Currently, Concordia offers a degree pathway for college/university level education, however, we lack programs in the lower education levels such as elementary, middle, and high school. Collaborating with an organization like the Hana Reading Culture Center would greatly benefit each of our students. It would work especially well with our Trinity Academy collaboration because of the Christian focus between the two schools. A partnership or collaboration between these three schools could be the start of something great, but in the meantime, it remains a topic of discussion.
About Concordia International University:
Concordia International University is an educational institution offering certificate, diploma, higher diploma, and postgraduate diploma programs progressing to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees locally and internationally. We have a network of colleges located in many countries (the USA, Europe, Australia, Canada, Korea, and the Philippines) and offer online and offline courses and online-to-offline (O2O) courses. We serve as a platform university for students looking for a clear path into international universities and colleges at a more affordable price, at a faster pace. Through our online-to-offline program, students have an easier way of completing their courses abroad through our affiliations with a multitude of universities and colleges in Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and many more.
About Trinity College:
Trinity College, headquartered in Korea, is a professional educational platform and institution that conducts non-face-to-face class programs for obtaining bachelor’s/master’s degrees from British universities and transfers to the last year of major universities in Europe including the UK. Trinity College is the Korea Admissions Office, which helps students with admission counseling and procedures, and provides administrative support for the degree process.
Recently, Trinity College has focused on the development of a transfer course to a prestigious overseas university to realize an innovative educational system. To this end, we have established a flexible and innovative learning system that allows students to learn excellent curriculums from universities around the world, and we will continue to expand it further. This has made it possible for students to obtain a degree from an internationally recognized higher education institution at a faster and lower cost.
About Hana Reading Culture Center:
The Hana Reading Culture Center’s goal is to provide proper Christian education through scripture, social interaction, leadership development, creativity, and counseling. Students will conduct doctrinal studies based on systematic theology, read spiritual classics, and participate in group prayer/worship. Part of the students’ social interaction is learning how, not only we has humans perceive others, but also how God perceives us. Leadership development is through finding a student’s talents and strengths. The students will study regular government-issued education subjects such as Korean, English, Mathematics, Science, etc. Along with studying, playing and exploring creativity is equally important. Allowing the students to have creative freedom promotes growth and allows for a better understanding of potential strengths. The general goal is to find out what the students excel and provide counseling to help the students reflect on potential careers they may be interested in.
