On March 11th, 2019, the University organized the opening ceremony of the course. The opening ceremony was attended by Vice President Ngo Minh Thuy, Director of the Cooperation & Development Office Do Minh Hoang, Dean of Language Education and Professional Department Hoa Ngoc Son, Director of International Education Center Le The Quy, Representative of GES Vietnam, ULIS volunteer students, Ritsumeikan University officials and students.

Delivering her speech at the opening ceremony, Vice President Ngo Minh Thuy hoped the students would have a meaningful time at ULIS. She also thanked the Global Education Group for supporting the organization of the course.

Representing Ritsumeikan University, Mr. Akito Asano shared brief information about the school, and hoped that Japanese students would actively learn and live while they were at ULIS.

On behalf of GES Vietnam, Mr. Takayuki Onda also thanked ULIS for facilitating the course and believed that during the course of this experience all the Japanese students would have a memorable time.

In this Vietnamese language and culture course, Japanese students have the opportunity to learn numerous interesting things such as basic communication in Vietnamese, Vietnamese history and culture, Vietnam-Japan economic relations, etc. At the same time, students also experience language and culture through other interesting extracurricular activities.