✔ Academic Activities

No.	Name of seminar (or conference)	Date and Place
C-1	International Conference	2011. 10. 27-28. Macedonia, Skopje
Number of Papers Presented	5
Relevance to the Project	On October 27-28, 2011, a two-day international conference was held at the Macedonian university in Skopje. “The 1st International Conference for the Promoting Korean Studies in Macedonia” October 27-28, 2011  Macedonian University, The Academy of Korean Studies, HUFS Session I  “Establishing Korea-Bulgaria Educational Partnership”   Session II “Understanding and Opportunities between Korea&Macedonia” Scholars in the area of Korean studies from Macedonia, Bulgaria and Korea participated. They presented papers on the strategies for the establishing and development of Korean studies in Macedonia and shared their opinions in discussions.
Date	2011. 10. 27-28. Macedonia, Skopje
Notes	In this international conference were participated 2 Macedonian professors, 1 Bulgarian professor and 2 Korean professors. The topics of the presentations were related to promoting and developing Korean studies in Macedonia.

No.	Name of seminar (or conference)	Date and Place
C-2	Expert lecture and preparing specialists	2011. 04. 05. Macedonia, Skopje
Number of Papers Presented	1
Relevance to the Project	An exchange was conducted with the purpose of preparing a next generation of scholars and cultivating specialists in the area of Korean Studies: 1. A visit to Macedonia by a Korean expert, giving lectures 2. Macedonian students, studying in Korea 3. Korean students, studying in Macedonia The exchange for the preparation of a next generation of scholars and the cultivation of specialists in the area of Korean Studies was organized in the following : A visit to Macedonia by a Korean expert, giving lectures and participating in academic events. The co-participant in the currents research team Prof., Kim Won-hoi on April 5th 2011, gave lecture to the students from the Faculty of Humanities of the Macedonian university on “Korea, the Koreans and the Korean Language Education”.
Date	2011. 04. 05. Macedonia, Skopje
Notes	Lecture to the students from the Faculty of Humanities of the Macedonian university on “Korea, the Koreans and the Korean Language Education”

No.	Name of seminar (or conference)	Date and Place
C-3	Special lecture of Korean culture expert	2011. 10. 27. Macedonia, Skopje
Number of Papers Presented	1
Relevance to the Project	-       Date: 27 October, 2011 -       Lecturer: Prof. Kim Jae Uk (Director of the Centre for Korean Language and Culture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) -       Place: Macedonian University, Faculty of Humanities -       Topic: “Korean Ceremonies and Customs” (관혼상제) -       Participants: Students from the Macedonian university and other guests from Skopje
Date	2011. 10. 27. Macedonia, Skopje
Notes	As the director of the Centre for Korean Language and Culture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Prof. Kim, Jae Uk gave the informative and academic lecture about “Korean Ceremonies and Customs”.

No.	Name of seminar (or conference)	Date and Place
C-4	Academic Paper Presentation	2011. 11. 24.-27. Korea, Busan
Number of Papers Presented	1
Relevance to the Project	During the 1st World Humanities Forum, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Korea and UNESCO, and organized by the Korea Research Foundation and the Korea UNESCO Commission, held on 24th November 2011, Prof. Kim Wonhoi, who is member of the current research team, presented a paper related to Macedonia, under the title “Conflicts of Human Civilization and a Healing Place for the Humanities: The Balkans, Macedonia, Skopje.”
Date	2011. 11. 24.-27. Korea, Busan
Notes	This is the first international forum on humanities, organized by Korean government.

No.	Name of seminar (or conference)	Date and Place
C-5	International Conference	2012. 06.05.-06. Korea, Seoul
Number of Papers Presented	5
Relevance to the Project	On June 05-06, 2012, a two-day international was held at the Hankuk university of foreign studies, Seoul, Korea. “The 2nd International Conference for the Promoting Korean Studies in Macedonia and Macedonian Experts in Korea” June 05-06, 2012  The Academy of Korean Studies, HUFS Session I  “Enhancement of Cultural and Academic Research on Korean and Macedonian”        Session II “Korean and Macedonian Language Learning” Scholars in the area of Korean studies from Macedonia, Bulgaria and Korea participated. They presented papers on the strategies for the establishing and development of Macedonian studies in Korea and for the development of Korean studies in Macedonia. They shared their opinions in discussions and proposed effective methods for that.
Date	2012. 06.05.-06. Korea, Seoul
Notes	On the contrary to the 1st international conference, the 2nd international conference was held in Korea. 2 Macedonian professors and 1 Bulgarian professor participated in this conference with their own articles.

No.	Name of seminar (or conference)	Date and Place
C-6	Raising of the rating of Korean Studies and Korean Language	Issued by 2012. 01. 20. Macedonia, Skopje
Relevance to the Project	When the current research was initiated in December 2010, Korean studies (the lectures in Korean language) were rated third module(제3외국어) among the foreign languages. As the research was conducted, thanks to the activities and the support of the research team, Korean studies and Korean language’s rating was raised to second foreign module(제2외국어). Accordingly, in the new curriculum the number of classes was increased and in 2011 more students, in comparison with the previous year, studied Korean. The following document is the official order of the University for Korean language as the second foreign module.
ate	Issued by 2012. 01. 20. Macedonia, Skopje
Notes	Thanks to the 2 years research activities, Korean language became the 2nd foreign module of Macedonian university. It means that Korean language got the chance to become the separate major of independent foreign language department in Macedonian university and can attract more attention from Macedonian students and people.