Chinese Language and Culture Department won the Grand Prize, Best Prize, and Excellence Prize at the In China Forum
University of Seoul's Chinese language and culture department won the Grand Prize, Best Prize and Excellence Prize in the 3rd Korea-China Youth Idea Paper Contest hosted by the Korea-China Exchange and Cooperation Platform ‘In China Forum’, founded by Incheon Metropolitan City. The ‘In China Forum’ is held every year, and more than 20 teams participated this year.
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University of Seoul's Chinese language and culture department organized and participated in three research teams based on the results of major and comparative classes, and each won the Grand Prize, Best Prize, and Excellence Prize, proving the students' outstanding competence and creativity.
The marine environment research team (Lee Byung-woo, Kang Chan-won, Kwon Byung-chan, and Shin Joon-hyuk), which won the Grand Prize, presented a plan for environmental cooperation between youth from Korea and China in a paper titled "Forming an Environmental Community and Accompanying Young People in Korea and China: Focusing on Youth Marine Convention." The study was recognized for its feasibility by addressing marine environmental issues that can be solved together by young people from both Korea and China.
The Best-winning “Moo-hwan challenge” research team (Choi Hong-rok, Choi Hyun-ho, Shin Hyun-woo, Lee Ja-kyung) presented a plan for diplomatic development based on the cultural commonalities of both Korea and China through a paper titled "Cultural Discourse as a Cultural Public Diplomacy Method: Focusing on Oriental World views and ‘Moo-hwan-je’(Korea-China festival)“
The Youth Accompanied Research Team (Rah Hyun-woo, Yoo Ji-hyun, Jeong Song-yi), which won the Excellence Prize, presented a plan to spread youth interchanges by the University of Seoul C-Cafe under the title "Collaboration of the Youth Generation: Focusing on Nationalism Reconsidering."
This achievement is a result of the academic achievement that University of Seoul's Chinese Language and Culture Department has steadily built up and the strengthening of students' capacity. Since its foundation in 2008, the Chinese Language and Culture Department has led a creative educational model that combines Chinese language, literature and regional studies. Also has developed students' abilities through major classes, comparative activities, and academic consumption.
Professor Yoon Jong-seok, who led the research teams said, "China literacy, understanding China accurately in various angles, is essential for developing Korea-China relationship," and added, "We expect our students to contribute greatly to the development of Korea-China relationship after graduation." Sung Geun-je, head of the department, also stressed, "This achievement is the result of strong trust and exchange between students and faculty. We will continue to discover talent who can contribute to the development of Korea-China relationship.
