The Center for Youth and Cultural Studies is Yonsei’s representative institute of social welfare and culture. The Center was established in order to analyze and find solutions to the problems of the young generation who were living in an unprecedented society of ‘economic growth without employment’ in an increasingly globalizing market. The Center aims to investigate real problems from an integrated approach of theory and practice, generating new knowledge and serving those in crucial need. Since its foundation in 1999, the Center has conducted a number of symposiums and projects in association with many departments, including Sociology, Psychology, Education, Architecture, Clothing & Textiles, Journalism & Communication, and Graduate Culture Interdisciplinary Programs. The Center has also produced various forms of discourse, constructing network with other Asian countries. The Center for Youth and Cultural Studies currently operates two demonstration centers: Haja Center and Seoul Alternative Learning Community Network, which are both supported by Seoul city. The Haja Center is directed towards helping adolescents expose new cultural sensibility, lead self-directed learning, and integrate their learning, work, and play. The Center also attempts to organize ‘social businesses’ that are different from the majority, helping young adults work in a different environment and goal. Some of these businesses include designing and directing adolescent programs in the Haja Center. The Seoul Alternative Learning Community Network constructs educational infrastructure for students out of school, organizing and supplying adjusted curricula and teacher education. Grounded on real needs and changes in both education and business, The Center for Youth and Cultural Studies is operated with young culture producers. These young people constantly make new discourse on adolescent issues, take part in policy regulation, and create various cultural contents for the education and work of adolescents and young adults. Since 2002, Yonsei has worked in cooperation with the Center for Youth and Cultural Studies in the fields of society and welfare. The Yonsei Newsletter had an interview with Professor Cho Han Hye-jeong (Cultural Anthropology), Director of the Center for Youth and Cultural Studies, to learn how Yonsei and the Center exert effort to realize Servant Leadership. “In the 1990s, the Korean economy showed good momentum of development with diverse changes in the society. It was when teenagers claimed not only their freedom of clothing and hair, but also their rights to engage in and create cultural activities. There was a burst of teenagers quitting school for these reasons.” At the turn of the 21st century, Professor Cho Han Hye-jeong took part in the job to revise the Adolescent’s Charter by means of support from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. In 1997 when the country was suffering from the IMF financial crisis, Professor Cho Han was in charge of the adolescent and women division in the Seoul Unemployment Policy Committee. She approached the problem of unemployment among young people by virtue of encouragement and support for adolescents, also preparing for an era of cultural and creative business. In 1998 when the Center for Youth and Cultural Studies was established, adolescents were fettered in school by excessive rules and a limited curriculum. Students who wished to to become a film director, writer, or musician were deprived of the time and space to even try to prepare and practice. It was the Haja Center where students interested in extra-curricular or cultural activities were welcomed and appreciated. These students were supported to engage in wide-range cultural activities, including film, design, music, web and liberal arts. “After I explained the proposal of the Haja Center to the Yonsei president at the time, Kim Byong-soo, he was impressed and pointed out that it was a job of Servant Leadership which Yonsei certainly had to carry out. In a moment, he asked me, “The students aren’t delinquent students, are they?” My reply was “Yes, delinquent students like Seo Tae-ji”. He immediately said, “Carry on with it.”” The Haja Center consists of 4 alternative learning programs—Working Field School, Road Scholar, Young Chef, and Alchemist School. The programs provide knowledge and experience which the ordinary curriculum cannot. Students in the Working Field School learn from voluntary activities such as in Burma refugee camps and visiting elders who live alone and expand their experience and skills. Students who wish to share their feelings and experience with others through poems take notes of their thoughts from helping refugees. Some students visit homes of elders who live alone to measure the temperature in their homes and make any repairs needed to maintain cool temperature in the hot summer. The Road Scholar trains teenagers who wish to become professionals in the traveling business, the Young Chef fosters ecological chefs, and the Alchemist School prepares those who wish to stand on their own feet and manage their own business. “I believe that individuals identify themselves, make colleagues and neighbors, feel life is rewarding only when they do their work with cooperation and volunteering. An individual’s life is not only about achievements and profit but a network of relationships and a sharing heart; an isolated life yields a sense of fatigue and futility. More people in our society should realize that happiness and satisfaction depend on living along with neighbors and colleagues, sharing with social communities, and creating visions with them. In a society so full of competition and greediness, Yonseians should endeavor to regain and flourish the value of self-support and co-prosperity. Those in need should be treated with practical and enduring support rather than mere feelings of pity and sympathy. I hope more Yonseians actualize Servant Leadership by taking part in society serving activities.”