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Chuseok Celebration 2011 (9.7)
- Date : 2011-09-16
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Chuseok Celebration 2011 was held on September 7, 2011, to celebrate Chuseok, one of the most important traditional holidays in Korea, as well as to provide opportunities for international scientists and students to experience Korean culture.
About 250 international scientists, International R&D Academy students, professors and delegates of foreign embassies participated in the event. They enjoyed activities such as traditional Korean folk games, folk painting, traditional clothing contest, taekwondo demonstration, etc.
The dinner, hosted by Dr. Kil-Choo Moon, president of KIST, was joined by many diplomatic officers from foreign embassies including Ambassador Kamal Prasad Koirala of Nepal, Ambassador Desmond Akawor of Nigeria, Ambassador Dato Ramlan bin Ibrahim of Malaysia, and Ambassador CHAN Ky Sim of Cambodia.
Three teams of IRDA students came forward to showcase their talents in the talent show, and many prizes and gifts were handed out, including best dressed prizes to the winners of the traditional clothing contest. For the last event, a performance team from the Dong-A Media and Arts Institute performed a traditional “Kyunggi” folk song and gave a traditional “Nanta” drums and dance performance.