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Solve the Mystery of the Employee ID!

On the afternoon of April 25, nearly 200 students from Songgwang Middle School attended the ACC vocational experience program in the ACC International Conference Room. The program’s facilitator started with a precautionary training on possible safety accidents. Gathered in groups of five or six for the internship program, the participants engaged with their first task: guessing their job titles in the “Solve the Mystery of the Employee ID!.” One person from each team talks about their job, and the rest of the group tries to guess that person’s job. I was amazed at the multitasking skills of the younger generations, who picked up what was being said in the bustling and chaotic atmosphere.

Complete the Incomplete OOO

The “ACC Internship: Onboarding My Career” is a digital edutainment program that allows the participants to experience three areas among the various fields undertaken by the ACC, namely the Performance Project, Exhibition Planning, and Research and Survey departments. Each team has a tablet PC, which, when provided with the job titles inscribed onto the employee ID, issues them with missions. For instance, teams that chose the Exhibition Planning department have the roles of curator (exhibition planner), exhibition designer, technician (installation), educator (education specialist), and advertising marketer. Team missions are undertaken in the designated spaces, with each member playing their role. The tasks they must perform are already presented to them in different items, which help the participants intuitively understand their tasks, their required abilities, and what skills and interests would be ideal for their position.

Send the Onboarding Task Log!

Each team performs its team mission, and all missions are finalized by sending in their task logs. The concluding task is the presentation of all the teams’ missions, highlighting the various positions and roles behind the different activities at ACC. Team members get to learn how to put on a show in the ACC Theaters, as well as a director, stage manager, lighting director, costume designer, music director, etc. must work together, and all research and archiving work undertaken in the ACC Archive & Research is the result of teamwork between the archive curator (exhibition planner), archivist (archive manager), librarian, researcher, and conservator (preservation and conservation).

Vocational Experience Program on Art and Culture

While many public institutions provide indirect job and vocational instruction through tour programs and other indirect means, the ACC classifies, organizes, and archives the contents of numerous positions involved in actual exhibitions / performances / research work in a structured manner, which then form the basis of 15 occupational groups chosen by the ACC to facilitate the vocational experiences and to demonstrate how different jobs are organically linked to the process of each project. Academic researcher Jin So-eun of the Cultural Education Department, who has been planning this project for nearly a year now, had this to say about the program:

Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Multiple intelligence is “an ability to solve important problems or deliver results in a specific cultural or societal context, using certain symbolic tools.” It is intended to expand the idea of intelligence beyond the conventional IQ-based measurement. Howard Gardner, a professor of developmental psychology at Harvard University, proposes that multiple intelligences expand the definition of intelligence from the familiar logical-mathematical intelligence to the verbal-linguistic, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, spatial-visual, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, and existential intelligence.

Nowadays, public education is expanding to include various activities and experiences beyond the basic curricula at school. One such change is the career semester. Although similar job world programs are emerging across Korea, the ACC’s “ACC Internship: Onboarding My Career” program presents a positive example of an excellent multi-intelligence experience program for the next generation that cultural institutions should pursue along with their original tasks of exhibition, performance, and research.

These are some of the feedback offered by the students who took part in the program: