When I moved to Seoul to study Korean, I expected my education to be about Korea. I imagined improving my Korean, learning more about Korean society and gaining a deeper understanding of a country in which I hoped to build a future. What I did not expect was that studying Korean would teach me so much about the rest of the world. At times, my classroom at Korea University’s Korean Language Center has felt like a miniature United Nations. Over the past year, I have studied alongside people from countries including Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia and Turkey. I grew up in Australia and New Zealand, but these were places I had relatively little exposure to. But I realized multiculturalism has a geography. Migration patterns, geography and history inevitably shape which cultures we encounter in our everyday lives. Korea's geographic proximity to Central and Northeast Asia and its growing cultural influence and educational opportunities bring together students who might otherwise have had little reason to cross paths. Our common goal is to learn Korean, but we also became each other's teachers.