The games nights, run by the Asia New Zealand Foundation in collaboration with the Korean Education Centre, aim to introduce teachers to Korean games for them to play with their students.
"Learning and playing traditional Korean games at school is a fun way for your students to become familiar with Korean culture and language," says Asia New Zealand Foundation Educators Network manager Sean O'Connor.
Head of media at Wellington High School Kelly Jean-Louis was one of about a dozen teachers who participated in the games night.
She says the games will fit in nicely with the curriculum she's teaching her Year 9 and 10 social studies students next year.
"I plan on using Korea as a platform for teaching economics and how economic structures work...and I think using these sorts of games will really draw the students in."
She says her favourite game of the evening was yut nori.
"You just never know what's going to happen - it's just full of challenges. You can be way behind other people but using your smarts you can take over."
The teachers learnt:
- Yut nori – A Ludo-like board game of chance and strategy
- Tuho – A game like pitch pot where players try to throw arrows into an jar to score points
- Omok – A board game of strategy similar to Connect Four, or Go
- Jegi – Korean hacky sack with a shuttlecock instead of a beanbag.