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India holds festivals across Korea The Indian Embassy kicked off its first cultural festival Monday evening at the Millennium Seoul Hilton in Jung District, inviting the public to a week-long series of music, dance, yoga, film and modern Indian cuisine. The 1st Festival of India in Korea, themed “Sarang,” will run through Sunday in Seoul, Busan and Chuncheon in Gyeonggi, with each city featuring different programs. “Sarang means ‘love’ in Korean,” Indian Ambassador Vikram Doraiswami said Monday at the inaugural ceremony. “It’s also a Hindi word that means ‘colorful.’ So sarang exemplifies the modern and historical relationship between India and Korea.” That reglationship goes back to A.D. 48, when Korea’s King Suro of Geumgwan Gaya married Princess Suri Ranta from the Indian kingdom of Ayodhya. The theme “also depicts the magical colors that are India,” the ambassador continued, “and that is Indian culture.” “Our hope is that, with this first experimental cultural festival,...

아시아투데이 인도 뉴델리 하만주 특파원 = 인도문화교류위원회(ICCR)가 14~15일 양일간 인도 뉴델리 인도국제센터에서 개최한 국제컨퍼런스에는 한·인도 양국의 전문가들이 총출동했다. 개막식에는 아닐 와드화 인도 외교부 차관, 나게샤 라오 파르타사라티 전 주한 인도대사, 안민식 주인도 한국대사관 공사 등이 참석했다. 컨퍼런스에 참석한 정부 관계자와 인도 학자들은 논의가 진행되는 동안 자리를 뜨지 않았고, 토론에도 적극적으로 참여했다.    특히 15일 한국학중앙연구원 산토시 굽타 박사가 신라·고려·조선 시대의 신분제도와 인도의 카스트 제도의 연관성을 제기하자 인도 학자를 중심으로 반박과 비판이 이어지면서 토론 분위기가 후끈 달아오르기도 했다.    굽타 박사는 “신라시대의 왕들이 진흥왕의 경우에서 보듯 인도 전륜성왕((轉輪聖王 ·Cakravatrtin)으로부터 지배의 정당성을 확보하려고 시도했다”면서 “왕족이나 귀족들이 자신을 인도 카스트 제도의 크샤트리아 계층으로 여기는 경향이 있었고, 이는 한반도 고대·중세 국가의 사회계급 형성에 촉매제 역할을 했다”고 했다. 이에 참석자들은 “카스트 제도는 힌두교를 배경으로 하고 있고, 한국의 신분제도는 불교, 유교를 배경으로 하고 있어 카스트 제도와 한국의 계급형성을 연결시키는 것은 부적절하다”고 지적했다.    이에 굽타 박사는 “두 제도 사이에는 유사성이 있고, 고대·중세 왕과 귀족들의 행태를 보면 그 개연성을 완전히 부정할 수 없다”며 “이에 관한 연구는 향후 과제”라고 했다. 그러면서 “20세기 초 한국에서도 백정운동이 있었는데 지금은 한국 내에서 양반·천민 등 계급은 완전히 사라졌다”며 “이는 인도가 배워야 할 점”이라고 했다. 인도문화교류위원회((Indian Council for cultural Relations ICCR)가 14~15일 양일간 인도 뉴델리 인도국제센터에서 개최한 국제 컨퍼런스 ‘유산의 공유, 아요디아국 공주의 설화와 그 유산의 역사...

 In what could give a boost to the Make in India campaign, the government could soon nominate three local firms — Cochin Shipyard, L&T Shipbuilding and Pipavav Defence & Offshore Engineering — to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportation vessels for state-run GAIL (India). The move comes in the light of these three shipyards signing memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Korean firms for technology-sharing. Earlier, the Korean shipyards had expressed reservations in transferring their state-of-the-art technologies to Indian firms, even as they were keen on the business opportunity offered by India’s planned LNG imports. Sources said after the ministry of external affairs took up the matter with the Korean government, the latter has agreed to allow Korean shipbuilders to share technologies with Indian firms as joint venture partners. The MoUs pave the way for construction of LNG vessels, which are cost-intensive and sophisticated, in India for the first ti...

           

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul on Monday [Credit: PTI] Narendra Modi, who has visited 17 countries in the one year that he’s been Prime Minister, made his latest stop in South Korea at the end of a three-nation Asian tour that took him to China and Mongolia. In Korea, he talked about ‘Make in India’. He talked about Asian Unity. He talked about defence cooperation. He talked about international institutions and the need to reform them. He talked about security dialogues. India and Korea signed seven agreements, described in the MEA’s usual way as ‘wide-ranging’. But the question now is: What are they worth and will India meet Korean expectations, especially on the economic side? If the past is anything to go by, the Koreans may well be in for a disappointment. After all, P V Narasimha Rao and Manmohan Singh in their time had also invited Korea’s small and medium scale firms to come and invest in India. To date, however, there are only...

Around 60% of the investment for setting up transmission infrastructure goes towards equipment with the market size estimated to be around Rs. 14,000 crore. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint New Delhi: Attracted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s ‘Make in India’ programme, and, more pertinently, to meet conditions that make it mandatory for foreign companies wishing to sell equipment to large Indian government projects to have factories in India, China’s Baoding Tianwei Group Ltd (BTW) and South Korea’s Hyosung Corp. plan to set up electricity transmission equipment manufacturing facilities in the country. India and China have been at odds over the supply of cheap Chinese equipment to Indian firms in sectors such as telecom and power generation over security and quality concerns. “Due to the mandatory requirement that one needs to have a manufacturing base in India and the size of the electricity transmission equipment market here, firm such as BTW and ...

Hae-lck Lee, executive director of the Korea Automotive Industry Globalization Foundation, spoke to Jaishankar Jayaramiah on the sidelines of the recent ACMA Automechanika New Delhi 2015 trade fair about the Korean automotive industry and its bilateral trade with India. How many companies from Korea participated in the expo and what was their main agenda? This is the first time that we participated in ACMA Automechanika New Delhi. We had as many as 15 companies including our foundation. Almost all are manufacturers and exporters and a few are into trading. They are mainly looking to tap the market for their products in India and export. We have earlier participated at the Auto Expo with 16 companies and are satisfied with the results. I think ACMA Automechanika New Delhi will also satisfy the Korean exhibitors. How important is Indian market is for you and why? As you see in the world market, China is very developed as they are producing many cars while Eu...

                                Diplomatic soiree is held after Park’s visit and before Modi’s Indian Ambassador Vishnu Prakash, center; Jeong Kab-yoon, right, the National Assembly vice speaker; and Kim Ki-jai, the former minister of government administration and home affairs, light a traditional Indian lamp on Jan. 26 at the 66th Republic Day of India celebration held at the Millennium Seoul Hilton in Jung District, central Seoul. By Park Sang-moon The Embassy of India last week commemorated the country’s 66th Republic Day with an event at the Millennium Seoul Hilton in Jung District, central Seoul, which was attended by approximately 400 people. Republic Day commemorates the adoption of India’s constitution and is one of the three national holidays celebrated in the South Asian country, along with the Independence Day on Aug. 15,...

Amid the growing partnership between India and Korea, a group of students from the Hindi Department of Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS) visited JNU to learn Hindi and about Indian Culture. The Centre for Korean Studies (CKS), School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University organizes basic courses on Hindi Language and Indian Culture for the Korean students every year. Group of students from the Hindi Department of Busan University of Foreign Studies (BUFS) visited JNU to learn Hindi and about Indian Culture. The basic level course aims at catering to the needs of those students who have had very little exposure to Hindi in Korea. The course the helps the students speak Hindi confidently and communicate effectively. The students are introduced with the basic sound system, syntactic structure and vocabulary of Hindi. They are taught about Indian culture through audio-visual aids. They also get to learn the informal Hindi. The overa...

Hyundai Heavy Industries’ dockyard in Ulsan. Korea’s largest shipbuilder has set goal of collecting 22.9 billion dollars worth of orders this year. Provided by the company   The world’s largest shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), has established an agreement to build submarines for India as part of a 40-year program to strengthen the nation’s naval forces. The financially struggling company said it signed an MoU with Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) last week stating that the Korean shipbuilder will work with the Indian company to build six submarines that the nation’s navy is preparing to order. “Since HSL wants to be a part of the submarine manufacturing project by the navy, they asked us for help,” said a spokesman for HHI. “Because they are the largest shipbuilder in their country, the possibility that they will win the order is big.” If HSL wins the contract, HHI will dispatch a work force to give technical support that the company needs to build the submarine...

  인도문화교류위원회(ICCR)는 한국의 우수 학생 2인에게 장학금을 지급한다. 본 장학 프로그램은 2015년 인도대학에서 공부를 희망하는 한국인 학부생, 대학원생 및 연구원을 대상으로 진행된다. 인도문화교류위원회(ICCR)는 선발된 학생들에게 학비, 생활비 등의 경비를 지원한다. 2 장학 프로그램에 대한 세부내용 및 지원서는 서울 인도문화원 홈페이지(http://indoculture.org/)에서 확인할 수 있다. 대학 및 기관에 대한 자세한 정보는 ICCR 홈페이지( http://www.iccrindia.net/GCSS_Scholarship_Letter.pdf )에서 확인 가능하다.    3. 지원자는 신청서 6부를 2015년 1월 21일 까지 주한인도대사관에 제출해야 한다.  2015년 1월 23일 에 영어 시험과 면접이 진행된다.      2014 년 12 월 31 일   서울   자료: 주한인도대사관

  Kim Yang-shik’s eyes sparkled behind those stylish glasses while talking about the letter she received from Shantiniketan’s Visva-Bharati university earlier this year. The university, according to her, had finally in principle given the green signal to her opening a Korea Bhawan in the town synonymous with Rabindranath Tagore. It was “ no answer, no answer, no answer ” for years, she said. Tagore, of course, has been Kim’s “mentor” and her “spirit”. “ Through Tagore’s poetry, I saw the world ,” she told me while we sat chatting in the Indian Art Museum in a trendy Seoul neighourhood. Kim heads both the museum and the Tagore Society of Korea; she set up the society in 1981 following years of reading Tagore’s works and translating some including the Gitanjali from English to Korean. Her elder brother urged her to read Tagore, handing her copy of The Crescent Moon; there was no looking back after that, only turning more pages. She did her MA ...

  The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) is offering two scholarships to meritorious Korean students for the academic year 2015-16 to pursue Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Research studies in various disciplines in India. All expenses, including tuition fee, living allowance, etc. of the selected students will be borne by ICCR. 2 Detailed information about the scholarship programme, application process and form, is available at the Indian Cultural Centre, Seoul’s website -http://indoculture.org/. Further information about the University/ Institute or academic course of interest, is available at ICCR’s website - http://www.iccrindia.net/GCSS_Scholarship_Letter.pdf 3.       The last date for receipt of applications (in six copies) at the Embassy of India, Seoul is 21 January 2015 . The English proficiency examination and interview would be conducted on 23 January 2015 . Seoul 31 December 2014   Source:Embassy of ...