I am Mikhail Balitsky, a 3rd year student of Institute of Philology, History and Oriental studies. I was a participant of the 6th scientific conference of young Koreanists. This conference was organized by the Institute of Asian and African countries of Moscow State University.
The 6th scientific conference of young Koreanists was held on 25–26 of June in 2021. This conference was dedicated to 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Korea.
The ceremony of opening the conference was held on 25th of June. The participants were greeted and congratulated by: professor Abylgaziev (Director of the Institute of Asian and African countries), Lee Tonnyol (Minister of Korean embassy), Lee Choru (Vice president of Korean Foundation), professor Kasatkina (Director of international center of Korean studies of the Institute of Asian and African countries).
On 25th of June the participants presented their reports in sections “Philology” and “History and culture”. In section of philology the participants presented their reports about Korean language, problems and peculiarities of translation Korean texts to Russian language, peculiarities of English words in Korean language and analyzed Korean books. The historical section was dedicated to wide sector of subjects: from historical researches of Taejo Wang Geon’s legitimacy to toxic administrative culture in Korean hierarchy named “kapchill” (갑칠).
On 26th of June the participants presented their reports in sections “Economy” and “Political science and sociology”. In section of philology the participants presented their reports dedicated to peculiarities, historical stages of economic development. Also, the koreanists presented subjects about Miracle on the Han River and it difference with Japanese economic miracle. The most interesting for me were reports about international tourism in the Republic of Korea. The section “Political science and sociology” was dedicated to peculiarities of foreign and domestic policy of the Republic of Korea and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
On 26th of June I presented presentation “Trends of international tourism development in the Republic of Korea” in economic section. In this report I found out historical backgrounds of tourism development in the Republic of Korea, basic reasons for rising of tourism and economy of Korea. In my research the history of international tourism development was divided into four stages: 1975–1979, 1980–1994, 1995–2019 and 2019 – present. Historical events were determined and found out their influence on tourism sphere in Korea. Main trends of outbound and inbound tourism development were detected in stages: growth of tourist arrivals and departures, effective policy in tourism sphere, promotion on international market and tourism infrastructure development. The post COVID-19 state of tourism industry of the Republic of Korea was analyzed.
It was very interesting and useful experience of public speech and I new more about the Republic of Korea, its history, language, cultural peculiarities and foreign and domestic policy.
The closing ceremony of the conference was held on 26th of June: certificates and Korean storybooks translated by professors Kasatkina and Chung In-Sung were given to participants.
Written by Mikhail Balitsky, special for SSU.
