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Campus invites international students and teaching staff to learn local cultures in Kaohsiung

International students & teaching staff visited markets and old streets located beside Lotus Pond Scenic Area, Zuoying District. (Photo / Provided by the National Sun Yat-sen University)
International students & teaching staff visited markets and old streets located beside Lotus Pond Scenic Area, Zuoying District. (Photo / Provided by the National Sun Yat-sen University)
Taiwan Immigrants' Global News Network】translated by CHI CHIA I

To provide an opportunity for foreign students to experience local cultures in Taiwan, the National Sun Yat-sen University organized the “Humanity Innovation and Social Practice (HISP)” program that invites international students & teaching staff to visit markets and old streets located beside Lotus Pond Scenic Area, Zuoying District. Therefore, participants were able to interact with the local community.

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International students and teaching staff were able to learn local cultures in Kaohsiung. (Photo / Provided by the National Sun Yat-sen University)

International students and teaching staff were able to learn local cultures in Kaohsiung. (Photo / Provided by the National Sun Yat-sen University)

The activities were designed by both “crossing zuoying” team as well as foreign assistant professor Thiombiano Dramane Germain of National Sun Yat-sen University, who is in charge of the Department of Master of English in Asia-Pacific Affairs. Participants traveled to various places and visited unique stores that feature the unique cultures of Taiwan.

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This cultural immersion activity allows foreigners to have a better understanding of different aspects of Taiwan. (Photo / Provided by the National Sun Yat-sen University)

This cultural immersion activity allows foreigners to have a better understanding of different aspects of Taiwan. (Photo / Provided by the National Sun Yat-sen University)

Li Si Xian (李思嫺), the chairman of the HISP program and an associate professor of the Department of Musicology of the National Sun Yat-sen University, said that many foreign tourists can be seen at the old Zuoying area.

This cultural immersion activity allows foreigners to have a better understanding of different aspects of Taiwan, as well as offers tourist feedback to the stores and tourism industry in Kaohsiung.

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