Mexico

Mexican Embassy offers Spanish courses

The Embassy of Mexico in Seoul will offer Spanish classes to students from Aug. 1 to 28.

The classes will be 80 minutes long, three times a week. The beginner’s class will be from 10-11:20 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, and the intermediate class from 11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.

The four-week course, which will take place at the Embassy of Mexico in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, will cost 120,000 won, including textbooks.

Both classes will be taught by native Spanish speakers, who are currently teachers here.

Students will receive a completion certificate at the end of the course.

Those interested can call 798-1694/5 (ext. 305) or email eson@sre.gob.mx for further details.

Exhibition to save Gallery Casa del Agua

The Mexican Embassy in Seoul, together with Gongpyeong Gallery, Korean Fine Arts Association and Korean Sculptor’s Association, opens “Legorreta: Embracing Space” today.

The exhibition is at Gallery Casa del Agua on Jeju Island, designed by architect Richard Legorreta in 2009.

It is an act of protest by the Mexican community in Korea against landowners trying to demolish the gallery to construct accomodation for the 2012 World Conservation Congress to be held in September.

The gallery is highly acclaimed, winning the award for Best Hotel Construction & Design at the Americas Property Awards 2010.
Local authorities were supposed to rule on the demoltion by Wednesday but didn’t make a final decision, according to Claudia Macias de Yoon, president of the ASsociation of Mexican Residents.

France



Pascal Scholarship: Fabrice Leggeri, center in front row in black suit, charge d’affaires at the French Embassy and Francoise Guelle, to his left, attache’ for university cooperation, pose with 23 scholarship beneficiaries and staff members of the French Embassy after giving certificates in an award ceremony at the French Education Promotion Center in Seoul, Wednesday. The scholarship is sponsored by Lafarge Halla Cement, whose Chief Executive Officer Michel Puchercos atteneded the ceremony.


United Kingdom



Chevening Scholarship: British Ambassador Scott Wightman, center in front row, sits with the winners of the Chevening Scholarship after the award ceremony at the embassy in Seoul, Wednesday. Since 1983, the scholarships have been given to future leaders, influencers and decision-makers to support the British government’s priorities and objectives. Speaking at the ceremony, Wightman said he was grateful to its partners for their sponsorship. The partners are the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology; Ministry of Strategy and Finance; Financial Supervision Service; Bank of Korea; Korea Britain Society; HSBC; PCA Life; Standard Chartered Korea and Diageo. / Courtesy of the British Embassy

Uruguay



Farewell to delegation: Uruguayan Ambassador to Korea Alba Florio Legnani speaks during a reception thanking a Uruguayan delegation that was in Korea last week at the Banyan Tree Club and Spa in Seoul, Friday. The delegation visited the Yeosu Expo and met with private companies. / Korea Times photo by Kim Se-jeong