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The views expressed here are the author's own. Ellen Swicord already knows some of the things she loves about South Korea, where she will live this summer. The year-old Webster Groves student will spend six weeks in South Korea, immersing herself in the language and the culture. The senior-to-be at John Burroughs School in Ladue is traveling there as part of a State Department program aimed at promoting the study of languages not typically taught in American schools.

Two years ago she spent three weeks there as a junior counselor at an English immersion camp for Korean students, the Camp Fulbright Junior Internship Program. The program was launched by the U. Program organizers say young people with experience in foreign languages and cultures are highly sought by universities, government agencies and businesses intent on competing effectively in the global economy.

The program sends hundreds of high school students each year to countries where Arabic, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Persian, Russian and Turkish are spoken. Swicord's scholarship will pay all of the costs of her six-week trip. She leaves later this month for an orientation at Columbia University in New York, then travels to Seoul with about 40 other American students.

Swicord, who has studied Mandarin Chinese for two years and Latin for five, knew no Korean before her first trip to that country. After daily classes there in the Camp Fulbright cultural exchange program, she had a bit more.

But she said that after two weeks in Korea this summer, she will be expected to rely totally on Korean. Swicord said her interest in Asian cultures was sparked by the diverse group of friends she made at Burroughs. One friend's family is Chinese; others are from families that are Korean, Indian and Ethiopian. Learn more about each teacher here. Your child is placed in an appropriate classroom where they can grow and learn in a fun environment.

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