For the first time, a Korean city "wears Vietnamese clothes" during Cultural Week

According to a VNA correspondent in Korea, on June 20, the Vietnam Culture Week 2025 officially opened in Pyeongteck City, 70 km southwest of Seoul. The event was hosted by the Peongteck City government and organized by the Pyeongtaek International Exchange Foundation. This is the first time the event has been dedicated to introducing Vietnam.

Attending the event, which will last until June 26, were representatives of the city government including Pyengteck Mayor Jung Jang Seon, Chairman of the City Council, members of the National Assembly representing the Pyeongteck area, and related units. Vietnamese Ambassador to Korea Vu Ho attended the event along with many overseas Vietnamese and local residents in Pyeongteck and neighboring areas.

Lotus flower releasing ceremony at the opening ceremony of the Cultural Week. (Photo: Khanh Van/VNA)

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mayor Jung Jang Seon affirmed that Pyeongteck has become a livable international city in Korea. This place is increasingly developing with the foundation of the Samsung Group's semiconductor industrial cluster. In particular, Pyeongteck has a sister city relationship with Da Nang city of Vietnam. The two sides have maintained exchanges and continue to have plans to promote cooperation in many fields in the coming time.

Mayor Jung Jang Seon expressed his belief that this Vietnamese cultural event is a good opportunity to enhance understanding and exchange among Pyeongteck residents.

This will also be an opportunity to ease the homesickness of overseas Vietnamese. The Pyeongteck City Government would like to thank the Vietnamese Embassy and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism for their support in organizing this event.

Speaking at the event, Ambassador Vu Ho said that cultural and people-to-people exchanges between Vietnam and Korea have become one of the foundations, contributing to enhancing understanding between the two peoples, thereby creating opportunities to promote many other fields such as trade, investment, and education between the two countries.

The Vietnam Cultural Week is a precious gift for the Vietnamese community in Pyeongteck. Of the more than 300,000 Vietnamese people living, studying and working in Korea, about 3,000 are living in Pyeongteck and are contributing to the overall development of Korea.

Ambassador Vu Ho said that as human beings, everyone has dreams and hopes that the dreams of Vietnamese people living in Korea will come true. The Vietnamese Embassy hopes that the Peongteck City government will continue to care for and support the Vietnamese community here.

In the context of the increasingly developing Vietnam-Korea relations, it is hoped that the friendly relationship between the people of the two countries will also flourish.

The opening ceremony of the Vietnam Culture Week was solemnly held at Baedari Library Garden in the center of Pyeongteck City. The organizers arranged a lotus flower releasing ceremony to represent the pure traditional beauty of the Vietnamese people.

The program organized an exchange with Cherry Hye Ri, a famous Korean YouTuber with 1 million subscribers in Vietnam, to encourage learning about Vietnamese culture and tourism.

Within the framework of the Vietnam Culture Week 2025, in the spacious campus of Baedari library garden, there are booths displaying Vietnamese handicrafts, cultural experience areas: wearing Ao Dai, bamboo dancing. During the festival, the Organizing Committee also organizes traditional art and music performances of Vietnam and Korea./.

(Vietnam+)

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