Sector: Building Cultural Understanding / Society and Culture
Country location: Republic of Korea
Grantee: University of Sydney

Project Description

Four senior undergraduate media and communications students from the University of Sydney will travel to Seoul, two in Jan/Feb and two in June/July 2017 to undertake a journalism internship at The Korea Herald and TBS Radio.

The interns will be expected to work as professional journalists, initiating, researching and writing stories either for press publication by their host organisation.

These can cover economic affairs, international events, sport, culture, fashion, health, and human interest stories, with an emphasis wherever possible on bilateral relations.

Interns may be able to promote Australian and bilateral relationship to an extremely wide audience, via articles and stories they publish in their media organization.

The internships will run for four weeks. They would also be expected, under the guidance of senior editorial staff, to proofread and undertake other editorial tasks.

During this time the students will present the image of Australia as a country with educated intelligent and hardworking students from excellent tertiary institutions.

This opportunity will ensure that future Australian journalists have a much more in-depth understanding of Republic of Korea including its culture, politics and history, which will inform them in their future careers, this will be preceded by a debrief at the Embassy

Key dates:

Calling for Applications, University of Sydney, 18 August 2016

Interview and recruitment process, University of Sydney, 05 September 2016

Pre Departure meeting, University of Sydney, 01 November 2016

Debrief presentation after fellows return, University of Sydney, 22 March 2017

University Prize Ceremony, University of Sydney, 10 April 2017

Social media: http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/parallax/korea/

Australia-Korea Foundation grant offer: $20,000.00

Total project value: $24,000.00