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Qatar adopts visa waiver for Korean
Koreans can travel to the Middle Eastern country of Qatar for 30 days without a visa, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tuesday.
The Qatari government decided on the visa waiver program weeks after President Park Geun-hye's request during a summit with Emir Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al-Thani during his state visit to Korea on Nov. 4 and 5.
Park was quoted as saying that a visa waiver program for Korean tourists would facilitate people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
Her call for a reciprocity measure came as a visa waiver for Qatari people travelling to Korea for 30 days or less is already in place here.
The Qatari side's visa waiver for Korean tourists becomes effective Tuesday, according to the foreign ministry.
It said the measure will encourage more people to visit each other's country and ultimately help the two nations improve bilateral relations.
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Book club members meet novelist
Seoul Literary Society members met at Swedish Ambassador Lars Danielson's residence in Seoul on Thursday, where novelist Choe Yun read an excerpt from her book "The Last of Hanako.
Danielson, the society's president, praised Choe for her formidable intellectual presence.
"For more than 20 years since her seminal work, ‘There a Petal Silently Falls' (1988), which embraces the trauma of the Gwangju massacre and mourns the fallen, the writer has used the power of her intellectual vision to tell stories that are both very fictitious but brutally honest," he said.
In another work, "Father's Surveillance," the writer had embraced the pain of a divided Korea.
Club members gather regularly at Danielson's residence to meet renowned Korean writers and talk about their work.
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Exhibition featuring Arctic to open
The Canadian Embassy, in collaboration with the Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul, will host a cultural exhibition featuring Canada's Arctic, the embassy said in a press release Thursday.
Starting Monday, the exhibition will continue until Dec. 31 at the Asan Institute's gallery on the first floor. The "Canada's Arctic: Vibrant and Thriving" exhibition features 16 enlarged photographs of Canada's Arctic and is complemented by four panels of Canadian Geographic magazine that covers the Arctic.
Through a geographic lens, the exhibition offers visitors a brief glimpse into the lives of people living in the Arctic, the embassy said.
"I hope this exhibit will generate wider interest in Canada's North and Arctic among the Korean public," James Trottier, counselor and head of political, economic and public affairs at the embassy, said. "Canada and Korea have a productive relationship in joint Arctic research through cooperation with the Korea Polar Research Institute and Canada welcomes the deepening of ties with South Korea on the Arctic."
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Pakistani culture showcased
The Embassy of Pakistan showcased Pakistani culture in the the Foreign Culture Journey organized by the National Library for Children and Young Adults in Seoul on Nov. 22.
The program aimed at projecting various aspects of Pakistan's rich cultural heritage, traditions and tourist sites, the embassy said.
During the presentation, it said, Raheela Nasrullah Kahn, the wife of the Pakistani ambassador to Korea, presented different aspects of life and culture in Pakistan, basic facts about the country, lifestyle and tourist attractions.
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