KT&G (President Bok-in Baek) signed an MOU with the Institute for Unification and Culture on the 26th to create a ‘KT&G Korean Language School’ in Kazakhstan, a primary Asian country.

The signing ceremony was held at KT&G Tower in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, with officials including Lee Sang-hak, head of KT&G's Sustainability Management Division (Vice President) and Ra Jong-eok, chairman of the Institute for Unification and Culture.

Through this MOU, the two organizations plan to open the ‘KT&G Korean Language School’ in Almaty, Kazakhstan in March 2023, and willingly take part to renew the language school, such as program planning and local publicity.

KT&G plans to contribute to the Korean language education and spread the Korean Wave culture to local Koreans and Kazakhs by building a Korean language school. In Kazakhstan, more than 100,000 descendants of Koreans who had to move by force from Primorye to Central Asia in 1937 live in Kazakhstan. 

Lee Sang-hak, head of KT&G’s Sustainability Management Division, said, “KT&G has been running the Korean language school in Indonesia since 2014 in order to spread the Korean Wave culture as well as Korean language education. We will try our best to make it happen.”

In the meantime, KT&G established a Korean language school in Indonesia in 2014 for cultural exchange between Korea and Indonesia, and has provided Korean language education to about 2,400 students until now. Also, in 2017, Sangsang Univ was established in Indonesia, taking the lead in growing Korean culture by providing cultural arts experiences activities for local university students.

(Photo description) KT&G (President Baek Bok-in) signed an MOU with the Institute for Unification and Culture on the 26th to establish a ‘KT&G Korean Language School’ in Kazakhstan, a primary Asian country. In the photo, KT&G Sustainability Management Headquarters Lee Sang-hak (left) and Unification Culture Research Institute Chairman Ra Jong-eok (right) take a memorial photo at the business agreement ceremony.

(Photo description) KT&G (President Baek Bok-in) signed an MOU with the Institute for Unification and Culture on the 26th to establish a ‘KT&G Korean Language School’ in Kazakhstan, a primary Asian country. The photo shows KT&G Sustainability Management Headquarters Lee Sang-hak (fourth from left) and Ra Jong-eok, president of the Institute for Unification and Culture (fifth from left), taking a memorial photo at the business agreement ceremony.