Lotte Scholarship Foundation, Overseas Historical Tour with Descendants of Independence Patriots for the 80th Anniversary of Liberation
(Seoul=Yonhap News) On the 13th, students who are descendants of independence patriots and scholarship recipients from the Lotte Scholarship Foundation took a commemorative photo in front of the ‘Chongqing Korean Provisional Government Office’ in China, the last provisional government building there.
(Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Minjung Cho – On the 14th, Lotte Scholarship Foundation announced that they conducted the ‘2025 Overseas Historical Tour for Scholarship Students who are Descendants of Independence Patriots’ in Hangzhou, Shanghai, Chongqing, and other locations in China to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Liberation.
From the 11th to the 14th, during the 3-night, 4-day event, 23 individuals selected as ‘Scholarship Students Who Are Descendants of Independence Patriots’ by the foundation in April directly visited the sites where the Korean Provisional Government was active.
After completing the tour schedule, the participants created content based on their feelings from the field visits as part of a group mission. This content is set to be released sequentially through the Lotte Foundation’s social networking services (SNS).
The Lotte Scholarship Foundation is running the ‘Scholarship Program for Descendants of Independence Patriots’ to honor the noble intentions of independence patriots who dedicated themselves to Korea’s independence and to support their descendants in moving toward the future.
Since 2020, scholarships have been provided to a total of 275 descendants of independence patriots, with the accumulated scholarship amount reaching about 2 billion KRW.
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