Ambassador Petar Kraychev and the deputy head of the Bulgarian Embassy in Seoul, Tsvetomir Krumov, visited the central library of the Korean city of Gyeongbuk, Gyeongsangbuk province, on April 24. This year, the library, in cooperation with the Embassy of Bulgaria in the Republic of Korea, is hosting the exhibition “Letters of Bulgaria – Alphabet of Europe”, which opens on the eve of May 24 – Day of the holy brothers Cyril and Methodius, of the Bulgarian alphabet, enlightenment and culture and Slavic literature. This was announced on their website by our diplomatic mission in Seoul.
Ambassador Krajchev was greeted with a “welcome” by the Vice Governor of Gyeongsangbuk Province Kim Hak-hong, by the director of the library Lee Sang-hyeon and by the team of the leading center of literature in the city and the province – Gyeongsangbuk – the largest province on the Korean peninsula with a territory of nearly 20,000 square kilometers, a population of 2.7 million people and a gross domestic product (GDP) of more than USD 90 billion, the Bulgarian Embassy states.
The conversation with Vice Governor Kim was devoted to opportunities for cooperation in areas such as culture, education, trade and tourism. In the course of the talk, the merits of the exhibition were highlighted, which gives schoolchildren, students, researchers and the general public a valuable opportunity to get to know the Bulgarian alphabet – one of the three main scripts of the Old Continent – and the historical regularities associated with it, added by our diplomatic representation.
Our mission in Seoul also points out that “with its color and increasingly tangible popularity, the exhibition “Letters of Bulgaria – Alphabet of Europe” is a project of the International Triennial of the Stage Poster – Sofia and includes 30 posters, the work of some of the most the world-famous poster artists who, at the invitation of the Triennale, each designed a poster with a separate letter from the Bulgarian alphabet. The letter “b” was recreated in a poster after a competition in which 30 young Bulgarian artists and students up to the age of 35 participated.
The State Cultural Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria has a long-standing partner relationship with the International Triennial of the Stage Poster-Sofia in the implementation of a number of international projects, the publication added.
