“Uzbekistan-Russia: the development of Korean studies at the modern stage”
On December 11, 2021, the 1st scientific and practical seminar “Uzbekistan-Russia: the development of Korean studies at the modern stage” was held, prepared jointly by the Department of Oriental Studies at the Humanitarian Institute of Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and the Department of Korean Philology at Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies (Uzbekistan).
The following speakers spoke at the seminar: Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the Humanitarian Institute of Novosibirsk State University, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor E.E. Voytishek. The seminar program included reports on issues in the development of Korean studies, Korean linguistics, history, in particular, “The Department of Oriental Studies of the State Institute of the NSU: History of Development and Prospects” (Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor E.E. Voytishek, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor A. Shmakova), “Study of Bohai in North and South Korea based on archaeological data (V.V. Akhmetov), “The problem of consonant opposition in the Korean language ”(A.S. Shamrin),“ About distance learning through teaching at NSU “(Kim Geun Mi). The Department of Korean Philology of Tashkent State University of Higher Education presented reports “The Korean language in Uzbekistan: an overview of linguistic research” (Doctor of Philology, Professor N.D Kim), “On the issue of semantic differences in the Korean language” (PhD, G.D Yunusova), “Antonymy in Korean” (PhD, Associate Professor T.S Kim.
The content of the seminar was rich and interesting, facilitating cooperation and exchange of research results in Korean studies. Online lectures were attended by students, undergraduates, applicants and faculty of both universities.
Brief information of the university:
Novosibirsk State University is one of the leading national research universities in Russia. In addition, NSU has a high international rating in QS World University Rankings, The World University Rankings, Top 100 universities with the best student-to-staff ratios, The Academic Ranking of World Universities-European Standard ARES-2020, Webometrics, The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, QS University Rankings: by Subject (Linguistics), The Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings, SCImago Institution Rankings, QS Graduate Employability Rankings, etc.
The University is one of the participants in the Priority 2030 Project. On March 25, 2016, as a result of the reunification of three independent subdivisions: the Faculty of Humanities, the Faculty of Journalism and the Faculty of Foreign Languages, the scientific and educational subdivision of the Humanitarian Institute was created, within which the Department of Oriental Studies operates. The Humanitarian Institute, like other faculties and institutes of NSU, builds its activities in close cooperation with the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The most important partners of the Humanitarian Institute are the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, the Institute of History, the Institute of Philology, as well as the State Public Scientific and Technical Library. The Institute intensively cooperates with universities in China, Japan, North and South Korea, Germany, Austria, Spain, France, Canada, Turkey, and the USA.
The Department of Oriental Studies at Novosibirsk State University was opened back in 1999. For 22 years of work, the staff of the department has increased to 40 people. The work is carried out in three language areas – Chinese, Korean and Japanese, two fields have been introduced – history and philology, which ensures a high rating of NSU students in the world labor market.
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