JBNU Graduate School of Archives and Records Management operated a Glocal PBL program with Duy Tan University in Da Nang, Vietnam, as part of the Glocal University Project, in which students from both countries explored local memories and traditions and reconstructed them into narratives.

During last summer break, the Graduate School of Archives and Records Management partnered with the Department of Korean Language at Duy Tan University in Da Nang to run a Glocal PBL capstone design program titled 'Roots & Routes: Shared Memory.'

This program, the second iteration of the international joint curriculum following last year, was delivered through joint team‑teaching with seven faculty members from JBNU and seven from Duy Tan University. Building on the experience of the first year, the program refined its content and shifted its focus beyond cultural introduction toward experiential cultural exchange in which students actively create, write, and learn.

The program involved 11 mentors from JBNU — graduate students from the Graduate School of Archives and Records Management and undergraduates from the Department of Library & Information Science, College of Humanities — and 35 undergraduate team members from the Department of Korean Language at Duy Tan University. The 46 students carried out a joint project examining the roots of each region's culture and traditions and expressing how these are transmitted across generations through local storytelling.

Prior to the on-site program, students conducted a month of online pre-meetings, literature review, and basic research in July. Based on this work, students from both universities, meeting in person for the first time on site, shared their research findings and cultural experiences, divided roles, and developed the project deliverables together.

At the 'Hallyu Festival' held August 22–23, activities introducing and allowing hands‑on experience of Korean culture were offered. Students compared Taekwondo with the Vietnamese traditional martial art Vovinam, made traditional Korean and Vietnamese kites, tried calligraphy and brushwork from Korea, Vietnam, and China, and painted Korean minhwa folk paintings and Vietnamese Đông Hồ paintings. An activity comparing traditional holiday customs and the characteristics of traffic signs and signage was also provided, giving students time to understand cultural similarities and differences in everyday life.

Professor Hyojeong Oh (Department of Library & Information Science) said, “This program was a meaningful curriculum that explored and documented each region's memories and traditions together and reinterpreted each other's cultures into new narratives. Going forward, we will continue to expand educational programs in cooperation with overseas universities that enable students to develop international communication skills and practical problem‑solving abilities.”