Chairman of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn has promised South Korean students studying Ukrainian the chance to take a training course in Ukraine.
During a ceremony at which the honorary golden order of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies of South Korea was awarded to Lytvyn, he said: "Ukraine knows your university… We are ready to expand the ties [of South Korean universities] with Ukrainian universities."
About 50 languages are studied at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and the department for Ukrainian studies was opened in 2009.
"Moreover, we are ready to give students studying Ukrainian the chance to take a training course at the highest legislative agency of our people – the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine," the speaker said.
President of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Park Chul, in turn, noted that the ties between Ukraine and South Korea "are not balanced" as they are mainly focused on the economic and political spheres.
"I believe that currently the time has come to expand our cooperation in the sphere of science and culture," he said.
