Twelve Japanese elementary-school students gathered at Yoyogi Elementary School in central Tokyo on Saturday, May 10, to play games, cooperate with and learn a little about a similar group of students at an elementary school in Seoul, South Korea via Webcam on the Internet.
They did this despite being hundreds of kilometers away, not to mention being unable to speak each other's language. The body that sponsored the activity, Pangaea, named after a prehistoric super-continent, is a nonprofit organization located in Aoyama, Tokyo, whose mission is to develop bonds between children that transcend language and cultural divides.
The students warmed up with a game of koetsuna, or "vocal tug of war," in which groups of children shout into microphones and the louder group wins. This got the students to relax.
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