Six Dream Together Master 5^th batch students Gobinath Sivarajah, Rijki Kurniawan, John Monyo, Nicholas Chipeta, Ali Hussien, and David Hodgson participated in ‘Football 4 Peace’ – F4P training camp hosted by Football 4 Peace Korea and Korean Sharing Movement from August 9^th to 12^th 2018 at Seoul National University. The F4P is not only a sports skill and technical knowledge enhancement program but also a methodology session which teaches values-based sport coaching through the medium of football. F4P aims to promote positive values associated with good citizenship and focuses on promoting the values of equity, inclusion, trust, responsibility, and respect through football.

During the camp, the F4P International values-based coaching methodology was introduced by senior lecturers at the University of Brighton, the U.K. 50 volunteers from various universities and schools in Seoul took part in the training camp and were awarded certificates for their active participation. Especially, 50 children from various schools were invited and given some basic and fun activities to mingle with each other and resource persons. After each of the activities, the children were given opportunity to consider what they have learned from the wide range of activities associated with peace and how they would apply this concept or skill in a practical setting.

As a graduate student of sport management at Seoul National University, it was praiseworthy to participate in such training camp. They learned how an activity transforms to a value which helps them to promote mutual understanding in various communities and realized that sport increases the possibility to connect all community people together. Nicholas Chipeta said “The Football 4 Peace training camp provided an opportunity for me to recall the importance of values-based coaching. The training camp was the driving motivation in me to pay much attention to values-based coaching. I believe that this methodology has great power to make better individuals in the society”

From July 22^nd to July 29^th, Kiev-Ukraine hosted the FINA World Junior Diving Championships 2018 – the world class youth tournament a qualifying tournament for the Youth Olympic Games, which will be held in the Argentinean city of Buenos Aires in this October.

[Left to right: Iaroslav Tokmachov, DTM 5th batch student, Mr. Cornel Marculescu, FINA Executive Director, Dr. Julio Maglione, Fina President, and Mr. Ihor Lysov, President of Ukrainian Diving Federation during the press conference.]	[Iaroslav Tokmachov at the FINA team leaders meeting.]

Iaroslav Tokmachov, DTM 5^th batch student, joined the championships as a Sports Manager of Organizing Committee. During the championships, he worked in IT sector and played a crucial role in event administration and promotion using social network services in cooperation with the Technical Diving Committee (FINA TDC).

The FINA World Junior Diving Championships gives a unique opportunity to the young athletes to be revealed and create awareness for the youth to learn highly technical discipline. The world-class event was held for the first time in Ukraine’s capital city, and 49 countries attended.

Mauricio Hernandez, Dream Together Master 5^th batch student, Former Sport Instructor at SENA (National Service for Vocational Education), received an Encouragement Award at the “Korea Together World’s People Essay Contest” organized by South Korea’s Ministry of Justice. In commemoration of the 11^th Together Day that aims to help create an environment where foreigners in Korea respect each other and live in harmony, the Ministry of Justice hosted the essay contest under the theme “From our Hearts to Yours.”

In his essay, he defined diverse cultural exchanges in South Korea and reflection on what it means to be harmony. During his stay in Korea, he has experienced not only culture but also tradition as the student of Dream Together Master at Seoul National University. “I would like to have more words to express my gratitude towards Korean people for the chance they gave me to make my dream come true and give me the chance to know and understand their culture,” he wrote.

Together day has been held annually on May 20^th since 2007 as more and more foreigners in South Korea interact and communicate with one another.

Five DTM graduates out of 13 global participants have successfully completed the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Education Program.

Five of our DTM students from various batches, Bin Mujail Mazhan (Malaysia), Juan Pablo Alvarado (Guatemala), Aldo Tong (Philippines), Pacharakamon Arkornsakul (Thai), and Gobinath Sivarajah (Sri Lanka) took part in the 8^th National Institute of Fitness and Sports International Sport Academy (NIFISA) as a part of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Education Program, held in Kagoshima and Tokyo, Japan from August 27^th to September 7^th.

The NIFISA program consisted of sport management lectures by domestic and international professors, Japanese cultural activities, Japanese traditional sport experiences such as Judo, Kendo and Naginata, sport facility tour to the Ajinomoto National Training Center and Nippon Sport Science University, a two-day homestay with a Japanese family, and sight-seeing.

At the end of the day, the participants presented their experiences in various topics such as Sport Management, Olympics, etc. Two DTM graduates, Juan Pablo Alvarado and Aldo Tong, were selected as recipients of the best presentation award.

안녕하세요, Hola, 你好 and hello. The students with various nationalities and background were accepted to Dream Together Master in 2018. 23 6th batch students from 22 different countries got accepted. The background of the students varies from former athletes to sport administrators who were in National Olympic Committee and the ministry. The events students were in are also varies; Track and Field, Taekwondo, Hockey and table tennis. These various students who gathered under the mission ‘To promote global sport development’ just started their one and a half year journey at Seoul National University.

6^th batch students are settling down in Seoul with 5^th batch students. They are intertwined as a mentor and mentee relationship and new students are helped from landed on the Incheon airport to until now. However, before the first semester started, welcome dinner and orientation are arranged to give them better understanding of Dream Together Master and people in the program. In welcome dinner, 5^th batch students, dean of the college of education, staff members of Korea Sports Promotion Foundation and faculty members of DTM were gathered to welcome new students. We have a chance to meet each of the 6^th batch students except the one who cannot arrive before the event due to the delayed visa process.

6th batch student Thuto Molebatsi from Botswana introduces himself	6th batch student Kristine Aleksanyan from Armenia give self-introduction

Academic path of the class of 2020 will be continued until December 2019 and introduction of DTM was made on August 27 in orientation. For 17 month in Korea, the students will take 36 courses consisted of 10 themes and two individual and group projects. Not only the course works, but extracurricular activities like special lecture will be given. We have no doubt that the class of 2020 will successfully complete the program and pursue the dream for the day when all the countries appreciate the benefits of sport.

Dream Together Master (DTM) team was at Bangkok, Thailand to participate SportAccord Convention 2018. Professor Joon-ho Kang (Director, Dream Together Master) and an Assistant Coordinator of the program managed the exhibition booth to improve the awareness of the program in the international sports field.

Dream Together exhibition booth.	Meeting with Weerasak Kowsurat, Thailand’s Minister for tourism and sports

SportAccord Convention 2018 was adorned with passion for sports of the participants and the institution that has a firm cooperative relationship with Dream Together Master also participated, Association of National Olynpic Committees(ANOC) and International University Sports Federation(FISU). Having a meeting with them and discuss about further cooperation was a great pleasure of ours.

The convention that has high reputation as a global platform also gathered alumni and former staff of the program together in Bangkok. We had a get-together with 2^nd and 4^th batch student, Sompob Hanwiwatanakul and Pacharakamon Arkornsakul, and former staff Daehyun Shin, former staff. We hope we could meet more and more DTM alumni at the SportAccord where international sport figures are gathered.

Prof. Kang with Sompob Hanwiwatanakul and Pacharakamon Arkornsakul from 2nd and 4th batch	FISU President Oleg Matytsin and Secretary General Eric Saintrond discuss progress the two organisations have been making to enhance educational opportunities for DTM students

SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY – Twenty five 5^th batch students, a class representing 23 different nationalities, enjoyed and celebrated the completion of DTM curriculum at SNU with the DTM Family on Monday evening of December 17^th, 2018.

The event was marked by celebration, awards and speeches, including DTM Director, Prof. Joon-ho Kang, SNU Physical Education Department Chair, Prof. Sun Yong Kwon, and Team Manager of KSPO, Mr. Dongbae Kim.

“You are qualified to be become a leader of your country as well as a frontier of the international sport community. Congratulations! It was my honor and pleasure to be with you. I love you all and I will miss you,” said Prof. Joon-ho Kang – DTM Director.

Gobinath Sivarajah, a Provisional National Course Director of the National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka, Mosejoa Belina Ntsane, a Sport Officer of the Ministry of Gender and Youth, Sports and Recreation of Lesotho, and Mauricio Hernandez, a Sport Instructor of the SENA (National Service for Vocational Education) of Colombia were honored as the 2018 Best Thesis Award.

Touching farewell speech was delivered by the student representative of the class of 2019, Mr. Nicholas Chipeta from Zambia. Nicholas brought all the great memories throughout the 17-month DTM journey in his speech.

“Being in the DTM program has enriched and broadened our perception of the world by living with peers with ideas, cultures and backgrounds quite different from our own. Cultural or lifestyle differences were never a barrier in our friendship. We learnt to support each other all the time,” said Chipeta.

The class of 2019 started their journey here in Seoul from August in 2017, with 30 modules coursework lectures, special lectures, group projects, exams, and sport field trips to different professional sport clubs/stadiums and sport organizations. For the last 5 months, the students focused on their thesis. The graduation ceremony represented all the hard work, effort and dedication of students.

[DTM Alumni Reunion highlight video clip.]

In October, Dream Together Master hosted the second alumni reunion “Dream Together Plus” which brought 10 graduates and their respective heads of the organizations back to Seoul, Korea. Organized by the Dream Together Master with support from the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, the gathering offered an opportunity for DTM alumni to forge a robust network, enhance the mutual cooperation among sports administrators in the world, and celebrate its sixth year of launching the program.

During this period of time, the participants visited several sports-related organizations and facilities such as Korea Institute of Sport Science, Jincheon National Training Center, and Korea Sports Promotion and Foundation, looked around cultural and historical sites, and watched a professional volleyball league match.

The event also included presentations by the respective heads of the organizations on topics relating to the current issues of sport management in modern society and cooperation between Korea and developing countries. Asaduzzaman Kohinoor, Deputy Secretary General of National Olympic Committee of Bangladesh, Falcon D. Sedimo, Chief Executive Officer of Botswana National Sport Commission, Vandeerson Berbat, Director of Impulsiona Program, Top Panha, Project Manager of National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, Andres Dario Tobon Castrellon, Coordinator Zone 3 of Ministry in Territory Ecuador, Nilesh Jalnawala, Director of Jalnawallas Sports Training & Research Centre, Demayanti Nasution, Deputy of Human Resources and Volunteer Department at Indonesian Asian Games Organizing Committee, Sawsan Shaikh Saleh Qaddoumi, Education manager of National Olympic Committee, Ramona Mohd Razali, Deputy Secretary General(Strategic Affairs) of Ministry of Youth and Sports Malaysia, and Supitr Samahito, Vice President of National Olympic Committee discussed how sport can go beyond the game itself to improve quality of life and happiness by strengthening mutual cooperation between Korea and developing countries.

The alumni reunion concluded with attendance of the Dream Together Seoul Forum 2018 attended by world renowned speakers, more than 300 guests, DTM staffs, and professors.