YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The 15th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Armenia and Korea was marked. The Yechzhon Korean national dance group, which had arrived in Yerevan on that occasion, performed at G. Sundukian National Academic Theater in the evening of November 4. Hasmik Poghosian, the RA Minister of Culture, stated this at the meeting organized on November 5 at the Ministry. According to the Minister, still young, yet fully-fledged political and economic cooperation of the two countries develops gradually paving a way for cultural partnership. Hasmik Poghosian said that since establishment of diplomatic relations, year 2000, Days of Korean Cinema have been held in Armenia and Armenian films took part in Pusan International Film Festival in 2006. The Minister of Culture assured that the agreement on Armenian-Korean cultural cooperation will be ratified in the future and these relations will become more active in conditions of presence of the legal field. Park Sang-Hun, the Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister of the Korean Embassy, who was present at the meeting, appreciating the bilateral relations, at the same time attached importance to the necessity of cultural cooperation, as it will contribute to mutual familiarization of the two peoples: "Culture is the only way of friendship and cooperation between nations and peoples."

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