BUIES CREEK, N.C. -- Twelve students from Korea’s Handong International Law School spent three weeks at Campbell University, learning about the American legal system. They learned a semester’s worth of litigation classes within that short period of time, but it wasn’t the only challenge they faced.

"As a Korean national, we're not really familiar with talking in front of people,” said second year law student Min Chung. “It was challenging for me, personally."

By the end of the session, she learned how to deliver opening and closing statements, as well as cross-examine a witness.

“Even if I don't step into the court, it actually gave me a lot of confidence in how to speak in front of people," Chung added.

Campbell Law professor William Woodruff taught the students and presided as judge during three days of mock trials at the end of the session. He explained that the law system in Korea is not based on juries, like here in the U.S.

“You don't have adjunct professors and trials and courts to go watch,” Woodruff said. “We bring them over here and teach the trial advocacy component here.”

Handong International is the only graduate law school in Korea because law is currently studied as an undergraduate major. The school’s founding dean is actually Campbell University law professor Lynn Buzzard. Campbell students can also attend a summer session in Korea.

"It's a very enriching thing for everybody who participates,” Buzzard said. “For Campbell, we want to move into the global world and if you don't do that, you're going to get left behind."

Buzzard added that number of the Korean students who've gone through the Campbell summer program now practice in the United States and other countries.