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Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) links visitors with organic farmers, promotes an educational and cultural exchange and builds a global community conscious of ecological farming practices.

WWOOF was founded in 1971 and is one of the worldโ€™s first educational and cultural exchange programs. Today, WWOOF is in more than 132 countries around the world (and growing).

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WWOOF in Korea

WWOOF Korea is the national organization helping to create local WWOOFing opportunities in Korea and to promote sustainable farming as a lifestyle.

Visitors, or 'WWOOFers', share in daily life with their host and learn about organic agriculture, while spending about half of each day helping out on a farm.

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Share daily life on an organic farm, learn about sustainable lifestyles and experience new cultures.

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Welcome people from various walks of life and share your expertise and passion about organic farming, growing food, and living sustainably.

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์ˆ˜๋ฏธ

์ˆ˜๋ฏธ South Korea

ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ถ€๋ถ€๋‹˜์˜ ๋ฐ์€ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒˆ ๋†€๋ผ๊ณ , ๋˜ ๊ฐ๋™ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฐ์ดŒ, ์ž„์—…์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ๊ฒ ๋‹ค์†Œ ๋‚ฏ์„  ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์†์—์„œ ์ž์—ฐ์ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋„‰๋„‰ํ•จ๊ณผ, ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผ ๋‹ฎ์œผ์‹ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ์ž์—ฐ์„ ๊ฐ€๊ฟ”์˜ค์‹  ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋‹˜์˜ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋А๋‚„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ๋…ธ์•„์˜ ์ˆฒ์„ ์ฐพ๊ณ , ๋˜ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐพ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์•„๋งˆ๋„ ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋‹˜๋“ค์˜ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ, ๊ธฐ๊บผ์ด ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์‹œ๋ ค๋Š” ์ง„์‹ฌ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์ •์„ฑ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด ์•„๋‹๊นŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•œ ๋ฐฐ๋ ค ๋•๋ถ„์— ์น˜์œ ์˜ ํ™ฉํ†  ์ˆ™์†Œ์—์„œ ํŽธ์•ˆํžˆ ๋ชธ์„ ๋ˆ„์ด๊ณ , ์ž์—ฐ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ธ ์‹์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ช…์ด๋‚˜๋ฌผ ๊น€์น˜์™€ ์žฅ์•„์ฐŒ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ทธ๋Š” ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ณผ์ •๋„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ท€ํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์ˆ˜์•ก์˜ ๋‹ฌ์ฝคํ•จ์„ ์ฒ˜์Œ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๋ง‰ ๋‹์•„๋‚œ ๋งˆ๊ฐ€๋ชฉ ์‹น์„ ์ง์ ‘ ๋”ฐ๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด๊ณ . ์ฒ˜์Œํ•ด๋ณธ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์ด ์ฐธ ๋งŽ๋„ค์š”. ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์„ ๋ฌผํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ , ์ข‹์€ ๋ง์”€๊ณผ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•œ ์ธ์—ฐ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ  ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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Noa

Noa France

Dโ€™abord merci ร  IHyun et ร  Dominique de mโ€™avoir aussi bien accueilli. Jโ€™ai passรฉ une semaine au sein de leur univers et cโ€™รฉtait super interessant. Jโ€™ai fait pleins de rencontres et ai pu pratiquer plusieurs de leur travail. Plantations de graines, de fraises, nettoyage des vignesโ€ฆ Cโ€™รฉtait le dรฉbut de la saison donc le travail nโ€™est bien รฉvidemment pas le mรชme quโ€™en รฉtรฉ, mais on fait pleins de choses. Jโ€™ai dรฉcouvert la culture de plusieurs faรงons, surtout par la nourriture vraiment trรจs bonne, et par les potins aussi ahah! IHyun mโ€™a emmenรฉ รฉgalement au cinรฉma, cโ€™est vraiment des trรจs bonnes personnes. Je recommande vivement ! Vous allez me manquer, je reviendrai vous voir si jโ€™ai la chance de revenir en Corรฉe du Sud ! Merci pour tout !

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Paola

Paola Spain

This was the perfect first WWOOFing experience. Thank you for your warm welcome and hospitality, you are some of the kindest people I have ever met. It was inspiring to see the home and farm you have built from the ground up. I hope to be back in a few years to learn more about your project and see you again.

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Clรฉment

Clรฉment France

A beautiful experience, hosts are very welcoming and kind. A lot of great meetings with diferent peoples. Beautiful place and very peaceful. You can learn a lot of things about boudhism and tea. Thank you for this great experience

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AININ SOFIYA

AININ SOFIYA Malaysia

This is my second time WWOOFing! Mrs Kim is very kind, warm and itโ€™s even better if you can speak & understand Korean bcs you def can learn more from her about a lot of things!! I helped with the greenhouse (pulling out the dead plants & roots & plating flower seeds) and handkerchiefsโ€™ dyeing process and ironing them! The farm work def makes you sweat but it was doable and manageable! It depends on the weather and conditions too. You start around 8am and usually ends after lunch. Lunch were usually eaten together and it was really delicious!! It is still kinda cold in March so pack well according to your visiting season since Jeju is very windy~ Breakfast and dinner are on your own so you can prepare RTE foods or u can cook by yourself at the accommodation. It has some basics things and i did left some ingredients for future WWOOFers. Mrs Kim provided plenty of fresh ingredients and homemade banchan too anddd seaweeds!! The accommodation was really comfortable and you have to share the room~! There was another WWOOFer when I was there. We worked and went around together to tourists spots! We rented electric scooter and so it was easy to go around nearby area! Itโ€™s countryside part of Jeju but it was really cosy & cute๐Ÿฅน I never took the bus and other times i just took taxis to visit places~ You will never regret visiting Jeju volunteering on this farm๐ŸŠ Truly one of my special memories in Korea๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿป ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๊ณ ๋ง™์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๊น€ ์„ ์ƒ๐ŸŒท

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Camille

Camille France

I had a wonderful two weeks at Seoladawon ! In such a short time, I learnt so much about tea, about the region and its dialect, meditation etc... Everyday was so full of new experiences that it felt like a whole month. The place is gorgeous, it's easy to go hiking or biking on your day off, or even stay on the premises and have a nice walk near the river. I want to thank again the hosts for taking the time to teach us so much and take us to different places. Wwoofing is really not only about farm work, but also discovering a new culture.

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Cole

Cole United States

My time in ๊ฐ•์›๋„ was rewarding, and I was able to explore the surrounding community thoroughly on my off day of the week, one of the prettiest places I have been in Korea. Work mostly consisted of felling trees and tending to the goats, with some other projects including building a table. I ate like a king here, feasting on lots of banchan and tasty snacks. I only wish my korean was better for ease of communication with my hosts, but appreciate deeply the patience they had for me as a korean learner.

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Cole

Cole United States

I had a fantastic time in ์žฅํฅ๊ตฐ! I had the opportunity to learn so much about mango and tea farming and processing, as well as rural tourism in Korea. Work was light and satisfying to complete, with variety of spring cleaning, helping with the pollination of mango trees, tea production and helping with classes for the many guests, and some trimming of tea bushes. Outside of work I was welcomed as more than family, but with respect for my privacy which I appreciated. I was able to meet many community members and attend a farmer convention, a highlight of my trip. I hope to be back soon!

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Cas

Cas United States

This was our first time WWOOF'ing and we had such a great time! Homie and OD were very welcoming and kind. The accommodations were top notch. The work was fun and the down time afterwards was relaxing - the Korean countryside is so beautiful! It was very fun getting to know and work alongside Homie and OD as well as Alex and Jiyeong. We also loved interacting with all the animals on the farm, especially the dogs! We would love to go WWOOFing again!

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Cecile

Cecile United Kingdom

my 5th wwoof was very different from the previous ones, mostly because it isn't a farm. It is a spiritual, faith-fluid commune based around an alternative school. However, they have a few plots of land that are cultivated once a week for a couple of hours when a local farmer comes around and kids and adults alike dig in. So there is definitely room for a wwoofer to help grow more and maintain what's there. There are also spaces on the school grounds that could be cleared, and areas with ornamental trees/bushes that could be shared with edible plants. I made some suggestions during my 2-weeks stay and bought seeds for the kids as a leaving present so maybe the next wwoofer will get to plant some seedlings? Other things I did during my stay include making curtains, painting the living-room in the wwofer's house, spreading sand on the playground and the path to fill the holes, helping in the kitchen (only a little as there are always a lot of adults and older kids already on kitchen duty) and joined an English lesson. The work day starts at 8.30am with an easy 1 hour walk to and from the beach with the kids, then whatever work needs doing until 12, when everyone has lunch together, then another 1.5 hours after lunch, so you're usually finished by 2.30pm max. There's potentially some flexibility as they've only just started taking in wwoofers and are finding their feet. Bitnanda is the lady in charge of the wwoofers. She is really lovely and speaks English. Weekends are fr...

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Patricia

Patricia Australia

I cannot speak highly enough of Jowoon (Peter) and his lovely wife. Unfortunately I had to cut short my stay at Noa Forest for personal reasons and return to Australia far earlier than I had planned. I am sure this caused some inconvenience to both Jowoon and his wife, but they were so gracious, kind, sympathetic and supportive. Jowoon initially picked me up at the bus station in Wonju and then took me back to catch the train to Seoul, even insisting on paying my train ticket! The accommodation is just beautiful, spacious and very comfortable. Eating with the family was a joy, my only complaint being there was too much for me to eat! The farm work I did was easy and rewarding. I really wish I could have stayed longer and helped more. A beautiful farm in a beautiful setting tended by a loving couple.

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HAINAN

HAINAN South Korea

๋†์žฅ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ๊ณณ์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•ด ์žˆ๊ณ , ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์ˆฒ๊ณผ ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์—ฐ๋ชป์ด ์žˆ์–ด ์ •๋ง ์ธ์ƒ์ ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๊ณ  ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜์…จ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฒ ํ•™๊ณผ ์˜์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด๋„ ๋งค์šฐ ๊นŠ์œผ์…”์„œ ์˜๋ฏธ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊นŠ์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์„œ ๋งค์šฐ ๋œป๊นŠ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŠธ๋‹˜์˜ ์ž์—ฐ๋†๋ฒ•์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฒ ํ•™์–ด๋„ ๊นŠ์€ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ๋ คํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์ •์„ฑ๊ป ๋Œ๋ด ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.์ •๋ง๋กœ ์ธ์ƒ ๊นŠ๊ณ  ์•„๋ฆ„๋‹ค์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.๐ŸŒฟโœจ

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