{"id":187119,"date":"2014-12-11T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187119"},"modified":"2014-12-11T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T18:00:02","slug":"korean-students-exchange-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/korean-students-exchange-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean students here for exchange program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five students and two teachers from a middle school in South Korea are on Saipan and are interacting with students at Chacha Oceanview Junior High School.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview at the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office, student exchange program coordinator Gang Nung Lee said the students are currently studying English at Chacha Oceanview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are taking English classes. They came here to Saipan on Dec. 8 and will be leaving on Dec. 13,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee noted that their school\u2019s students also visited last year under the same program. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have developed a sisterhood relationship with COJHS and the reason they\u2019re here is that it will help encourage English, because English now in Korea is a very important language to learn,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n<p>The students\u2019 ages range from 14 to 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The group will be heading to the Thursday Street Market tonight and will visit the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office and the Man\u2019amko Center tomorrow, Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-five students and two teachers from a middle school in South Korea are on Saipan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1241],"class_list":["post-187119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}