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News ID: 64409
Publish Date : 18 March 2019 - 21:35

Tehran, Seoul Expand Academic Cooperation

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's Ambassador to Seoul Saeid Badamchi, in a meeting with South Korea's Minister of Education Yoo Eun Hae, discussed ways to broaden mutual academic cooperation, and agreed to step up efforts to increase relations between the two countries' universities.
Badamchi and Yoo Eun Hae, who also serves as South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister, met on Saturday and discussed ways of boosting academic cooperation, including student and professor exchange programs.
The Korean official described Iranian students studying at the country's universities as brilliant and talented, and said that her country will try to offer more facilities to receive more Iranian students.
She also expressed readiness to open centers in Tehran for teaching South Korean language to interested Iranian people.
The two sides also emphasized the necessity of strengthening the scientific, academic ties between the two countries.
Currently, some 400 Iranian students have enrolled in South Korean universities with 80 percent of them studying at graduate courses.
The number of Iranian students at Korean universities has increased by 100 percent over the past three years.
Iran has sealed countless agreements with academic centers and universities across the globe, in a bid to expand academic cooperation and conduct joint research projects.



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 Iran's Ambassador to Seoul Saeid Badamchi, in a meeting with South Korea's Minister of Education Yoo Eun Hae.