Volunteer Internship Program
The May 18 Memorial Foundation aims to improve and broaden its relationship with non-governmental organizations through the medium of exchange programs and internships with human rights and peace organizations overseas. The Foundation created this program in 2001 to further the cause of human rights and peace in Asia ans the US through international solidarity and co-operative networking. The name of program is the Asia NGOs Internship Program, student and youth volunteers of the Foundation are sent abroad for a duration of 10 months. The intern is required to return to Korea following the completion of the program.

International Internship Program on Human Rights
The International Internship Program strives to contribute to the development of democracy and human rights throughout Asia by recruiting two interns from abroad, who have been working for human rights and peace organizations in their own countries, and by giving them an opportunity to experience and learn the history and the development process of human rights and democracy in South Korea, particularly the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising. Interns will have a chance to exchange and network with Korean civil society groups.  They can also choose or will be assigned topic to research while doing their internship program. As interns, they will be assigned particular duties and responsibilities as part of the International Cooperation Team.

NGO Studies Scholarship (MAINS)
In partnership with Sungkonghoe University, The May 18 Memorial Foundation provides scholarship to five (5) NGO activists in Asia. The activists are chosen based on their performance and participation in the Gwangju Asian Human Rights Folk School. This program, named Masters of Arts in Inter-Asia NGO Studies (MAINS), has a multidisciplinary curriculum, integrating academic and practitioners' training with dynamic changes occurring in Asia and the globe. It is unique in the field of studies on social changes, non-governmental organizations and civil society. The curriculum covers a wide range of current issues in the field of international relations from both regional and global perspectives as a major field of studies.