Meeting Korean Culture

15:45, February 10, 2014

Ural Federal University will be a co-organizer of the conference on the 150th anniversary of the voluntary resettlement of Koreans to Russia

On February 6, the delegation from South Korea visited Ural Federal University; the head of the delegation was the director of the Moscow representative office of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), the director of the Russian - Korean Center for Scientific and Technical Cooperation, Lim Sang Hyun.

The central theme of the meeting was participation of Ural Federal University in anniversary events dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the voluntary resettlement of Koreans to Russia. The events will focus on the harmonization of inter-ethnic relations, the development of good-neighborly relations between Russia, North Korea and South Korea. Most of them will be of international, all-Russian or inter-regional character.

In 2014, the events dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the voluntary resettlement of Koreans to Russia will be held in seven Russian cities: Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg and Moscow.

On July 4, The International Scientific and Practical Conference will take place in Yekaterinburg and will be hosted by Ural Federal University.  It’s expected that ethnic Koreans from Korea and Russia will visit this conference. The conference will be organized by the Association of Korean Scientific and Technical Societies of Russia (AKSTS), the National Research Foundation NRF and the National and Cultural Korean Autonomy in Yekaterinburg.

The conference will contain five scientific sections, as well as a separate section for students. After the conference there will be the grand meetings and Korean culture festival.

At the end of the meeting the Rector thanked Lim Sang Hyun for constructive collaboration. "Cooperation with National Research Foundation NRF is very important for us, as the fund is one of the key organizers of the scientific and educational cooperation with the Republic of Korea", - said Victor Koksharov.