愛知学院大学薬学会誌 第１１巻

Exchange studies at Korea
Third Year

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Yukiko Chiba
In August 2018, as an exchange student, Iacupuncture. There is no acupuncture ward invisited Dongguk University in Korea. Andthe hospital in Japan, so I thought it was very

invited Dongguk University students to Japan.

interesting. That night, they held a welcome

Through this exchange program, I got a lot ofparty for us. I enjoyed drinking and chatting.

valuable experiences.

Through the night, I found that Koreans likedrinking and drink a lot. It was hard to keep up

In Korea

with them.

I visited Korea from August 8th to August 11th.

Next day, we went to oriental medicine market

At first day, school ambassadors at Donggukand oriental museum. There are many rare

University guided us around the Seoul Campus.

oriental medicine material at the market. WeDongguk University is a private, coeducational

could see many big deer horn there. At theuniversity

museum, I learned history of the traditional

basedonBuddhism.

Sotheschoolyard is designed expressing the Noble

KoreanEightfold Path which represent a Buddhist

traditional costume.

view of the world. And there are statues ofOn the last day, I enjoyed sightseeing andBuddha

shopping at Gangnam and returned to Japan.

andelephantsintheyard.

InBuddhism, elephant is considered to be a very
be dropped out if they ride on the status or dohigh touch to them. Aichi Gakuin University isalso a Buddhist university, but I have neverheard such a joke.
On the second day, I visited the campus in
Goyang. The campus has the college of
medicine, oriental medicine, pharmacy, andnatural science. It is a very large campus
compared with Kusumoto campus of Aichi
Gakuin University. Dr. Lee and pharmacy
students showed us around their campus. The
college of pharmacy of Dongguk University has
about 35 students each year, which is smaller
than that of our pharmacy department. Afterthat we visited Dongguk university medical
center and pharmacy close to the hospital. The
most interesting thing is that there is a ward ofmedicine.

TherewecanandweActually I wanted to stay more.

holy. They also taught me a joke that they willoriental

medicine

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Koreanmanaged by computer, so when there is a poweroutage, it must switch to the supply ofelectricity

byself-power

generation

immediately. If it takes more than 1second toswitch, it takes a long time to recover and theproduction is delayed, the worker said. In theafternoon, one of the student from Korea said
that she wanted to see Nagoya castle, so I
guided her to Nagoya Castle. Unfortunately thecastle tower is under rebuilding now and wecannot get inside the tower until 2022. We sawIn Japan

the Honmaru main palace and Ninomar garden,

About two weeks after we came back fromand enjoyed seeing Japanese historical interior

Korea, we invited nine exchange students fromdesign and paintings.

Korea to Aichi Gakuin University. We showed

On the day they went back to Korea, I saw

the buildings of faculty of pharmacy to them. I

them off at the Airport.

could not guide them well by myself with lack of

After they arrived in Korea, I received amy English, but thanks to the teacher’s helping,message of appreciation from them, so I was

we were able to guide them somehow. After that,touched very much. I became good friends with

we had welcome party for them. We plannedthem.

making Okonomiyaki for Korean students andthey enjoyed very much.

Thanks to everyone who took part in the

Next day, we visited Eisai factory. It was myprogram, I had a very impressive and lovely

first time to visit the factory. The factory was
not running full, but I could see manysummer vacation.

unmanned robots carrying large drums filledwith medicine. All these are controlled and- 65 -