Our university establishes an operation base in Vietnam to spread Korean culture
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2014-12-04
Our university held an opening ceremony for the ‘Sookmyung Women's University — HANU Korea and Vietnam Cultural Center’ at Hanoi University on Monday, November 24. Members of both universities including President Sun Hye Hwang of our university, President Nguyen Dinh Luan of Hanoi University, and Head of the Korea Foundation Hanoi branch, Park Kyung-chul.
The exchange center was established to operate classes on Korea and Korean culture for Vietnamese locals and university students interested in Korea, and furthermore, conduct preparatory education for the rising number of Vietnamese immigrants through marriage and immigrant labor workers moving to Korea. Our university and Hanoi University will jointly operate the center, and Hanoi University will provide the space for the center free of charge, for five years. Funds raised by the Sookmyung Cultural Foundation (Chairperson Cho Sun-hae) will be used for center establishment and operation costs.
The cultural center will not only offer Korean language classes but also Korean culture classes, and simultaneously establish a cooperative system with related companies to host events such as a ‘Korean-Vietnamese Culture Night.’ In addition, university students who wish to enter our university will be provided with excellent student selection or invited program opportunities, and Sookmyung students will be offered a short-term dispatch program where they can gain credits at an overseas university. Other plans include preparatory education for Vietnamese people who wish to immigrate to Korea (customs, manners, etc.), local adaptation education for Koreans dispatched to Vietnam, and an invitation to Korean program for potential new Sookmyung Women’s University students.
The turning point that allowed our university to pursue an exchange center with Hanoi University was the KF Global e-School hosted by the Korea Foundation. KF Global e-School is an online Korean studies lecture that is conducted real-time between Korean and overseas universities, and the Sookmyung Women’s University Korean Cultural Institute started Korean studies classes on Korean history, Korean education and Korean culture, etc. in 2012, with Hanoi University. This semester, the program especially attempted global Korean studies with the French talent and professor of Department of French Language & Culture, Ida Daussy, teaching ‘Understanding Korean Society.’
The Korean Cultural Institute said about the role of the exchange center, “The exchange center is expected to be a hub of exchange of Korean and Vietnamese education and culture, and fully satisfy the demands of many locals who are interested in Korean culture.”