Korea will expand the range of cooperation with Colombia in the area of education by exporting the teacher training system.
The number of Colombian students to study in Korean universities will also rise under a bilateral agreement. Hwang Woo-yea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, signed a memorandum on July 31 with his Colombian counterpart Gina Parody in Bogota in his third leg of the Latin American visit.
At the signing ceremony, Minister Parody said, "I want as many Colombian students to go to and study in Korea." To this, Korean Minister Hwang replied, "The Korean government is willing to work with the Colombian government in a variety of ways."
Under the terms of the agreement, the Korean education ministry will send five to seven educational experts to the South American nation by mid-November this year to help the country reform its educational policy. It will also increase the number of government-sponsored scholarship students to 900 from current 800 and assign most of the increment to those applying from Latin American nations. In addition, the Korean minister agreed with the Colombian minister to form an educational partnership committee to discuss ways for future cooperation between the two countries.
He also delivered a letter of invitation extended by the president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies that the university would invite a total of nine students to Korea, including three each from Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.
