2024-2025 New York City Youth Ambassadors at The Korea Society
Posing with the Society’s Exhibition Dyadic | Annette Hur & Hayoon Jay Lee
ACCEPTING 2025-2026 APPLICATIONS
FROM SEPTEMBER 17 TO OCTOBER 24, 2025
The Project Bridge Youth Ambassador Program is the longest running program offered by The Korea Society’s Education Department. It was started in 1993 as a response to the 1992 Los Angeles uprising to introduce African-American urban students to Korean people, history and culture in an effort to promote greater understanding.
Since its inception Project Bridge has engaged urban youth in New York City and Los Angeles and over time has expanded student diversity in these two urban groups. In fall 2019 the Program added a rural and Indigenous youth perspective and voice with the addition of students from Montana.
Project Bridge is geared to inner city junior and senior NYC public high school students. Its goals are to ensure students develop insights and skills needed to “bridge” the gaps between people of divergent cultural heritages, to empower them to view social and cultural differences as a pathway - not a barrier – and to exercise their responsibilities as emerging young leaders in an increasingly interconnected and richly diverse world. More specifically, it aims to build an understanding of and appreciation for Korea and the importance of the US-Korea relationship.
The Korea Society works in conjunction with the Los Angeles-based Pacific Century Institute and the Missoula-based Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana to offer many exciting opportunities for youth ambassadors to not only learn about Korea but to develop leadership and intercultural competence skills, improve their public-speaking ability and grow their personal and professional networks. The academic year-long program consists of three key components: bi-monthly workshops, a ten-day study tour to the Republic of Korea and individual research culminating in a spring community presentation.
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Use the following links for further information:
Program Overview
Application Information
Most recent New York City Youth Ambassador cohort
More information on the Los Angeles Pacific Century Institute Program
More information on the Missoula, Montana Mansfield Center Program
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