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This article explores volunteering experiences of university students in Korea and interpretate thereflection on the experiences of university students in education service activities by ethnographic research. Theresearcher conducted participant observation in education service club of a university and depth interview withseven students of the club members. The domains that are a category of cultural meaning are volunteeringmotivation, the relationship with volunteer organization, difficulty in relation with children in poverty anddifficulty in communication with club members. The main cultural themes, as any principle recurrent in a numberof domains, explicit or tacit knowledge, are the pleasure by improvement of learning attitude of children inpoverty, sympathy with children in poverty and one’s helplessness as volunteer & meaninglessness ofvolunteering. In conclusion, the researcher discusses the reflection of university students as volunteer inindividualization of social responsibility.

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