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A two day international Seminar on the theme "Deepening India - Korea Relations: Towards a sustainable future" was held in New Delhi on Friday. The event was jointly organized by Researcher's Association for the Study of Korea (RASK) and Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) at the Convention Center of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and was sponsored by the KOREA FOUNDATION This year 42 participants from 11 different universities and organizations presented their papers on various issues. The seminar commenced with the inaugural session.  A welcome speech was given by the President of RASK Ottojit Kshetrimayum which was followed by opening remarks given by Dr. Jitender Uttam, Asstt., Prof. CEAS, JNU. The Introductory speech was given by Prof. Kim Do-young, he pointed out that RASK born in 2007 for the past 6 years have been providing a platform for organizational and academic goal of encouraging researchers for their profound studies on Korea. ...

Ssangyong Motor CEO Lee Yoo-il (right) poses with CFO Bharat Doshi of Mahindra And Mahindra Group (center) and Pawan Goenka (right), president of the automotive and farm sector of the Indian company, at a press conference in Seoul on March 15. 11 November 2013 The opposition parties’ lawmakers from the Environmental and Labor Committee of the National Assembly of Korea will visit the headquarters of India’s Mahindra and Mahindra Group to discuss ways to rehire workers laid off by Ssangyong Motor. According to parliamentary sources on November 10, the main opposition Democratic Party’s two lawmakers Hong Young-pyo and Eun Soo-mi and minor Progressive Justice Party lawmaker Sim Sang-jung will go to India to meet with the Indian conglomerate’s top management late on November 11 (Indian time). The three lawmakers and a director from Korea’s labor ministry will have talks at the Indian company’s headquarters with Chairman Anand Mahindra and P...

South Korean President Park Geun Hye with Indian Prime Minister Winter is India’s diplomatic high season, with the cool, sunny weather forming an ideal backdrop for pageantry, photo ops at the Taj Mahal or Delhi’s Red Fort and bilateral deal-making. But this winter has been particularly impressive, with leaders from Japan and South Korea visiting to advance the cause of security cooperation in Asia. The first to arrive was South Korean President Park Geun Hye. Despite a strong economic foundation, the bilateral relationship has long lacked a meaningful security dimension. But China’s recent assertiveness — including its unilateral declaration last November of a new Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), which overlaps about 3,000 sq km of South Korea’s own ADIZ, in the Sea of Japan — has encouraged Ms Park to shore up her country’s security ties with India. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s unpredictable and often provocative policies represent an additional imp...

जेएनयू में सेमिनार भारत में कोरियाई भाषा के विकास और इस ओर आगे की योजनाओं पर चर्चा के लिए हाल ही 'इंटरनेशनल कोरियन लैंग्‍वेज एजुकेटर्स सेमिनार' का आयोजन किया गया. इस दो दिवसीय आयोजन में कई इंटरनेशनल स्‍कॉलर्स ने अपने विचार साझा किए और प्रेजेंटेशन दिए. कोरिया फाउंडेशन और सिओल नेशनल यूनिवर्सिटी द्वारा प्रायोजित इस सेमिनार का आयोजन जवाहर लाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी के कन्‍वेंशन सेंटर में 21 और 22 फरवरी को किया गया. कोरियन लैंग्‍वेज एजुकेटर्स इन इंडिया (एकेएलईआई) द्वारा अयोजित इस सेमिनार का थीम भारत में कोरियाई भाषा की शिक्षा के लिए सामरिक दृष्टिकोण था. जेएनयू में कोरियन स्‍टडीज सेंटर की चेयरपर्सन और एकेएलईआई की को-प्रेसिडेंट प्रो. वैजयंती राघवन ने इस अवसर पर अतिथियों का स्‍वागत किया. जबकि एकेएलईआई के प्रेसिडेंट और डीयू में ईस्‍ट एशियन स्‍टडीज विभाग के प्रो. किम डो-यंग ने प्रारंभिक भाषण दिया. जेएनयू में स्‍कूल ऑफ लैंग्‍वेज लिटरेचर एंड कल्‍चर स्‍टडीज के डीन प्रो. एमए इसलाहि ने एसोसिएशन द्वारा किए जा रहे कार्यों की प्रशंसा की. इस अवसर पर उन्‍होंने विदेशी भाषा की म...

Numerous ancient rock engravings of whales and whaling still remain in the southeast area of the Korea Peninsula, attracting archeologists from around the world. It has been suggested that they are the first pieces of evidence showing the prehistoric origins of whaling. These petroglyphs are found in Bangudae in the upper reaches of the Taehwagang River near Ulsan in Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang Province). Nearly 300 figures showing land and sea animals, as well as whale-hunting scenes, are found engraved into the wall over an area spanning 10 meters by 3 meters. The name Bangudae comes from the Korean ban , the word for a carapace or a shell, gu , meaning a turtle, and dae , a structure or a site, as in a carving site; the rock formation itself is said to resemble the back of a turtle. The petroglyphs of Bangudae recently came under the spotlight with the February edition of Current World Archaeology, a U.K.-based magazine devoted to archaeological finds. Based on...

The Library of Korean Literature series is a collection of ten Korean novels published in English in the U.S. last year. (photo courtesy of the Literature Translation Institute of Korea) The ninth volume of the ten-part Library of Korean Literature is Park Wan-suh’s (1931-2011) “Lonesome You.” This work was published in 2000 and is a collection of ten short stories, including “Withered Flower,” “Psychedelic Butterfly” and “That Girl’s House.” “Psychedelic Butterfly” tells the story of an elderly woman who has endured all kinds of suffering as a widow and as a mother of three children. The gray-haired woman feels uneasy staying at either her son’s or daughter’s house. She ends up being diagnosed with dementia, which, sadly, brings her more peace and freedom than being with her children, as the disease clears up all the memories of her ordeal. “Withered Flower” presents a love affair that sparked between a widow, who soon turns 60, and a middle-aged man while travelin...