
Visegrad Four at Hangkuk University
27.07.2016 / 04:18 | Aktualizováno: 09.03.2018 / 05:33
Czech Embassy in Seoul held cultural event and lecture at Hankuk University On 17 May 2016. The whole event was prepared in cooperation with the Department of Czech and Slovak studies and Puzzle theater in order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Visegrad Group, also known as V4, which consists of Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland and it was presided by the Czech Presidency this year.
After the introduction given by Professor Yu, President of Hankuk University Kim In Chul delivered a greeting speech. Czech Ambassador Tomas Husak continued it with his lecture mentioning that V4 group countries has always been part of single civilization sharing common cultural and intellectual values and common roots in diverse religious traditions. That is why the name Visegrad was selected for this group, because that is a place where Czech, Hungarian and Polish kings met already in 1335 to sign agreement about mutual cooperation and friendship. V4 is continuing its work on the same principles.
At cultural part of event each of V4 Ambassadors recited poetry in their native language in front of a screen displaying on images of their country. Poems had a logical progression from a poem about Slovak mountains by poem about Czech rolling hills and Hungarian poem about rivers flowing into the sea, which was subject of the Polish poem. While V4 ambassadors recited their poem, Noh Eun Sil, the Korean Pansori singer improvised with Pansori to each poetry. It successfully showed the fusion of cultures of Central Europe and Korea.