Today corresponding to 14th Sept. Aswan university president Prof. Ahmed Ghallab received the South Korean ambassador Hong Jin-wook in the university headquarters at Aswan Al Gadeda in a first visit to the faculty of Alsun since the COVID-19 pandemic started. The two parts discussed the ways of fruitful cooperation between Aswan university and the South Korean Embassy in Cairo. In this context, Prof. Ghallab stressed on the strong relations between the two parts through spreading the Korean language via teaching it in the Korean language department which is considered the 1st department to teach the language in Upper Egypt. He confirmed the significance of the meeting which paves the way to cooperation in many fields such as the technical field especially in the scientific faculties( faculty of engineering, faculty of energy engineering and faculty of fisheries technology and fish). Prof. Ghallab said that through the Korean cultural attache the university will engage Korean academic staff who have the commands of both languages Arabic and Korean to teach in the Korean Language department.
For his part the Korean ambassador said that the Korean companies inside and outside Egypt seek to hire the graduates in the Korean department where there are about 20000 Egyptian employees work in it. He added that, an annual competition will be announced through which the distinct students will be selected to have scholarships to study in the Korean universities. At the end of the visit the Korean ambassador expressed his happiness by Aswan university’s warm reception and praised Aswan’s touristic location which connects Egypt to the African countries. the meeting was attended by the vice president of graduate studies and research Prof. Ayman Othman and the dean of the faculty of Al Alsun Prof. Naser Abd Al Razeq.