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Dr Carolina Mera, academic coordinator of UBA Korea Argentina Study Center met the new Korean Ambassador appointed to Argentina, H.E. Kim Byung Kwon, and the new director of the Korean Cultural Center in Latin America, Yi Chong Yul.
In that occasion, the three of them renewed their commitment to collaborate mutually and to advance in the joint work for the diffusion of the Korean culture and the presence of Korea in the Argentine academic arena.
It is the fifth consecutive year that the Argentina Korea Study Center together with the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center offers Korean language courses in Buenos Aires city. The program is part of the Non-degree cultural program of Buenos Aires University.
Last March, first four months-period of 2009 has began. It counted with the presence of more than 40 students in three stages divided each one in beginners and advanced level.
This language course forms part of the Korean Studies Promotion Project in Argentina carried out by the UBA Gino Germani Research Institute, the UBA Argentina Korea Study Center, the Korea Foundation and the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center.
The course counts with highly qualified professors and can be taken twice a year, since classes start in March/April and August of each year.
The Association of Asian Studies in the United States Annual Meeting took place in Chicago, United States, from March 26th to the 29th.
In the panel "Relations between Korea and Latin America", financed by the Korea Foundation and coordinated by Jorge Di Masi, participated Carolina Mera, together with Gilmar Masiero, José Luis León, Lytton Guimaraes and Victor Villafañe.
The meeting was organized by the Association of Asian Studies (AAS). The new president of this American organization is Robert Hefner from Boston University.
In this photo: all participants to the board together with former President of the AAS, Robert Buswell.
A summer course titled "China, Korea and Japan: a cultural, economic, political and historic look of the East Asia" was taught between January 27th and March 17th. It is the sixth consecutive year that this course takes place. The professor in charge was Carolina Mera.
