PYONGTAEK, South Korea — Tenth-grader Betsy Lubaug and her fellow teens in Taegu, South Korea, say they’re thrilled the Camp Walker teen program has a big new wing devoted expressly to older teens.

“Everyone, like, they really love it,” said Lubaug, 16.

The 6,000-square-foot, $1.8 million wing was added to the 10,000-square-foot Camp Walker Youth Services Center and opened officially on Friday. Construction started in July and finished earlier this month.

“In that additional 6,000 square feet, there’s features such as … two multi-purpose rooms which basically we can use to offer teens instruction classes,” said Don Cannata, the Morale, Welfare and Recreation director with the Area IV Support Activity in Taegu. “We can hold dances there. One of the multi-purpose rooms has a DJ booth attached to it.”

“It’s so much bigger,” Lubaug said.

The wing also houses a computer lab, television lounge with large-screen TV and sofa-style seating, staff offices, restrooms, pool, ping pong, foosball, karaoke and video games.

“But besides that, we have a great dance room, and then we have art supplies,” said Lubaug. “We will be getting new flat- screen computers.”

“The major significance,” Cannata said, “is for the first time it allows us to run a separate teen program instead of having to combine both the teen and the middle school in the same building.

“And that’s important because the older teenage children do not want to participate in activities where younger children are,” he said.

Said Lubaug, “I guess we’re at that age where you want to be separate from the little kids. ‘Cause now, we’re the ‘big kids.’ We’re ‘cool,’ you know? So that’s the biggest part for us. And any teenager, it’s just that time in your life where you want something to call your own, and now we have something to call our own. It’s like our own little club.”