UrFU Staff Took Part in "KF Russian Next-Generation Leaders Visit Korea Program"

15:18, June 27, 2019

The cooperation with the Korean Foundation has a positive effect on the development of joint educational projects

A representative of the Department of International Educational Programs of the Ural Federal University took part in the "KF Russian Next-Generation Leaders Visit Korea Program", organized by the Korea Foundation.

As part of the program, the meetings with representatives of the Korean Foundation were held where issues of modern politics and geopolitics in the Northeast Asian region, strategic partnership projects between countries, the role and projects of the Korean Foundation in the development of education and culture were discussed.

Participants visited leading Korean universities, and had meetings with colleagues from Seoul National University, the Academy of Korean Studies, and Hankuk University of Foreign Languages.

For the last 6 years, the Oriental and African Studies (especially Korean Studies) has been largely developed at the UrFU Ural Institute of Humanities' Department of Oriental Studies, the number of students studying the Korean language and culture is increasing. Contests of eloquence, oral presentations in Korean are held regularly. In 2019, representatives of the Department of Oriental Studies received a joint grant with the Kazan Federal University for the development of Korean studies in the Urals. The plans are to create a Korean Language and Culture Center based in UrFU. It is planned to hold a Korean Studies scientific conference featuring world-class experts, as well as to hold the Korean Culture Day in the framework of the Year of Korean Culture in the Russian Federation and vice versa — the Russian Culture Day in the Republic of Korea in 2020.

This kind of cooperation with the Korean Foundation has a positive effect on the development of joint educational projects and lays the foundation for the long-term business partnership between the two countries.