Seminar "Approaching humanities research in modern Korea and Vietnam"

The seminar was held on August 26 and 27, 2008 at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU. This is one of the cooperative activities between the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Inha University (Korea).

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The seminar is divided into 3 discussion sessions according to main topics: issues of modern history and ideology; issues of modern language and literature and other issues.

At the first session, delegates discussed specific contents on: core issues in modern Vietnamese history, Vietnamese ideological trends in modern times; perception of the world and Vietnam's position through some works of Nguyen Truong To, the meeting between Eastern learning (Dong-hak) and Christianity...

In the second session, the reports focused on clarifying: basic methods of comparative research on Sino-Korean words with Sino-Vietnamese words; the development of Vietnamese in the modern period; the formation process of the concept of modern Korean literature; East-West exchange and the transformation of literary systems...

In the third session, the main discussion topics were: a survey of novels based on Koreans' participation in the Vietnam War; the origin and characteristics of the "blind chanting" ritual in Korean folk beliefs...

The seminar is a meaningful cooperative activity in an effort to identify common research directions between the two universities through research realities in social sciences and humanities in Korea and Vietnam.