Yonkang Foundation pledged to donate $30,000 to support the management and development of the world’s only Korean language village.

On August 27, the Foundation signed an agreement to provide $30,000 to Ross King, the chief of a Korean language village called ‘Lake in a Forest’, of the fifteen Concordia Language Villages in Minnesota, USA.

Ross King is also serving as the chairman of the Department of Korean Language at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, after conducting research on the Korean language for over twenty years based on his strong affection for the language.

The foundation decided to make the donation after Ross King sent a fax message to the foundation, which had been providing generous support for Korean language education overseas, immediately before his visit to Korea.

Park Yong-hyun, chairman of the Yongkang Foundation, said, “The very fact that Korea has a foreigner who is so devoted to the Korean language is something that we can be very proud of.

We will provide him with all the possible support to ensure that the village continues to grow, and that more people around the world learn about Korea.”

Ross King said, “I tried to promote the village, and asked many organizations for assistance, but Yongkang was the only one to gladly support the village.” He added, “I feel that the boat of Korean language education that is floating on the global stage is moving forward

with the help of tail winds.”

Meanwhile, Yongkang Foundation has carried out diverse assistance activities to support Korean language education and the globalization of Korean culture.

It helped with the launch of a Korean language department at Oak Land University in New Zealand for the first time among Korean private organizations in 1988, and assisted the launch of Korean language courses at Washington and Hawaii universities in the U.S. and Barcelona University in Spain, while continuing its efforts to globalize Korean language and culture.