Korea's Incoming Consul in Guangzhou Paid a Visit to GDUFS

Consul Yang said that he felt greatly honored to visit GDUFS for the first time and he was impressed by the favorable environment of the campus. When he discovered that one sixth of the international students in GDUFS are from Korea, Consul Yang couldn't help expressing his admiration to our Internationalization strategy and promised that he would bring GDUFS to the Korean public in order to attract more Korean students to study here. Furthermore, he mentioned that today is Teacher's Day in Korea, so he would like to pay tribute to all the teachers. 2012 marks the 20^th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Korea, Consul Yang Said he will devoted himself to the cause of furthering the ties and communication of the two countries.

President Zhong introduced our involvement to the program 'Asian Campus' and our application for the program of producing trans-century elite with joint efforts made by Ritsumeikan University and Dongseo University, which will certainly further the cooperation and communication with Japan and Korea. It will also elevate the standard of Internationalization as a result. Afterwards, Consul Yang quoted 'Three intimacies' to describe Sino-Korea relationships. He said that two countries are blessed with geographic intimacy, cultural intimacy as well as civilian intimacy. In other words, China and Korea benefit from the favorable geographic distance, its common mindset,  and its cultural and educational exchange with each other. Both sides shared their aspirations to make contributions to Sino-Korea relationship.