Youngsan Camp

Our first stop will be at Youngsan Camp. From reading on-line it appears to be a large youth facility where groups can go for various types of team building and trainings. Their motto emphasizes trust, love, faith, and healthy living. It offers various physical activities such as high ropes course, a low ropes course, and a "challenge tower." The tower offers individual challenges, team challenges, rock walls, and rappelling. I don't see time on the itinerary to participate in any of these things - and I must say I am glad! They all looked a little high in the air for me.

The camp is large. The website said it can have over 1,000 trainees at one time. It is about an hour away from Seoul. There is "Kyung-Ki" village, a place for intensive training in English. It is adjacent to "Heiri Village," which is the village of the arts. I will write more about Heiri Village later, since it appears we will be visiting.

It offers a full camp schedule for elementary, middle, high school, and adults (leadership) program. Some of the programs appear to be religiously based, and some do not. The schedules include participating in various units. The units are:

Culture and Art (tap dance, line dance, hip-hop dance, and cheering)
Leisure Sports (Thai kicking, snake board, t-ball, rappelling, go-carts, climbing, and floor ball)
Traditional Culture (paper crafts, swordsmanship, Tai-Chi)
Nature Observation (candle making, iron drawing, nature games)
Self-Development (challenge courses, sign language, group discussion, writing)
Game Culture (rec-dance, cultural festival)