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It's finally here...the 3rd IGK OPEN!

Back by popular demand, the annual IGK Open Golf Tournament has been set for its 3rd year. After much negotiation and deliberation with Cheongwon Golf Club (http://www.cheongwongc.com/), we have tried to make this a bigger and better event. Cheongwon GC is reserving the whole 18hole golf course for us on Saturday, November 19th for a 9am shotgun start. So get your teams of four ready for the tournament.

The tournament will be an adjusted best ball format. This inclusive format allows novices and pro swingers to have the most fun. As usual there will be prizes for the top 3 teams, best team spirit, closest to the pin, and prizes for everyone for just coming out and doing something different and awesome. Don’t worry about not having gear either. Teams can share clubs, and IGK has a bunch of clubs to lend out. The clubhouse will have beers and snacks for sale throughout the tournament.

 To register, send an email to Eddy Park at igk@iguidekorea.com with your name after you deposit your tournament fee of 55,000KRW to the following bank information:

Edward Park
KB Bank/국민은행
Acct #/계좌번호: 270902-04-063729

Save your partying for Saturday night when the bar sponsors will have drink specials for participants. So, mark your calendars and come swing at some balls!

 For directions, information on the adjusted best ball format, and more detailed information, click the link: http://iguidekorea.com/golf.html

See you out there!

 

Campers at the top of Cheon Tae San

IGK started its first children camp this month. This program has been a long time coming.

The idea pretty much started after my first year in Korea. I had seen so many students study so hard with little outlets for physical and mental relief. When summer vacation started, I was even more shocked to see the students go into even higher gear with ‘intensive programs’ at their math or English institutes. My Canadian summer vacations where about being in the outdoors, and some of my best memories came from summer camps.

Camps were fun! Canoes, swimming, photography, campfires, camping, and a host of games made summer camp an agonizing long wait when school started in September. But, it was not only the fun and games that brought me back to camp year after year. I also learned independence and responsibility. My parents were not around, and I still managed to get up early, make food, clean up, and go to bed early enough to do it all again the next day.

Fast food.

I also gained a deep appreciation for nature, and its healing mental calmness. I continue to enjoy quiet morning dew and radiant red skies while camping. They are sights I never get tired of. And, the fresh air, uncontaminated by smog and noise, still lifts my spirits when I’m down. 

Home Sweet Home

Finally, the last intangible and most important lesson I learned was leadership: how to be confident, face challenges, take responsibility, and lead. Being part of a camping team, I had specific jobs to do. Other depended on me to complete that job. And I depended on others. I had to take the initiative, and I had to allow myself to be led. As I grew older, I took these lessons from job interviews to mountain tops.    

There is no doubt that young Korean students are among the brightest in the world. Test results have shown these students to consistently score at the top end globally. But there is a very important life outside the classroom that stretches past the apartment complex, past the bustling city of Seoul and onto other lands far away. IGK’s Wild English Camps is giving the chance for young Korean students to know life in a fuller way.

An end to a great weekend!