The
Embassy of Republic of Korea held an event titled "Korea Alumni - Korean
Community Friendship Night" as part of the Korea Culture week, "Joumey
to Korea through Culture and Flavor" (October 9 to 18).
Indonesian
people who has a very close relationship with Korea community gathdred to build
stronger human network to support "strategic Partnership to Promote Friendship
and cooperation in the 21't century" in2006 between the two countries.
This
event was participated with more or less 200 people including Korea Association
members, NUAC of Korea members, IKAI members, INAKOS members, and those who
had been studying in Korea and joined the scholarship program. IAKI and INAKOS
introduced their activities in lndonesia, there was also Indonesian culture
performance
and
Samulnori perfonnance from Korea. Here the participants share knowledge and
experiences about culture,job, and their studies.
Indonesia and Korea
has been cooperating since the 1970's and keep spreading the cooperation into
stronger and wider field. At this moment, Indonesia is part of the 10 Korea
biggest trading partner. Korea community has the biggest amount in Indonesia
including 3 1. 500 Koreanp eoplei n Indonesai , | .200 Korea companies,a nd
almost 25.000 Indonesian people in Korea.
On
his speech, H.E Kim Ho-young the Ambassador of Rep. of Korea for Indonesia,
said that it is very important to build dynamic network and interact between
both countries in order to reach good cooperation and world peace inside the
G20 and ASEAN framework.
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