Membership training

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Mokkoji-ro in Daeseong-ri where many MTs take place.

Membership training (usually just called MT 엠티 ) is a part of South Korean culture in which a group of people go out together for one or more days and do team building activities. Above all, these are held at the beginning of the semester during the orientation phase at South Korean universities by student clubs and associations. It plays a big role in building and strengthening a relationship between the advanced semesters and the new students. In South Korea, drinking alcohol is an important element in getting to know each other better, which is why student MTs drink a lot. Since the younger students cannot tolerate so much alcohol and they are often forced to drink by the older students, one hears again and again of deaths among the MTs in the news. Since the remaining alcoholic beverages will be brought to the university campuses after the MTs, the South Korean government has decided to ban alcohol consumption on campuses from April 2013. However, MTs are not only held by students; Companies or religious organizations also use these to strengthen cohesion. These focus on team building and activities rather than drinking. In addition to drinking games and team building, membership training prepares and eats food together. Membership training often ends with "rolling paper": The participants write letters to other participants and express something they have felt, e.g. B. "You are very good at organizing" or "You were nice to the new students and helped them very often."

MTs tend to be held in huts in rural areas. Well-known places for this are Daeseong-ri in Gyeonggi-do and Gangchon in Gangwon-do . The huts are equipped with underfloor heating. You sleep on the floor with two blankets and one pillow per person.

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