ZOOMBANGLA DESK: As part of the birth centenary celebration of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the Embassy of Bangladesh in Seoul has established a `Bangabandhu Corner’ in the library of Seoul National University (SNU).
Ambassador Abida Islam and the General Director of the Seoul National University Library Kim Myung Hwan jointly inaugurated the Bangabandhu Corner on Tuesday in presence of the Embassy and University officials.
General Director Kim Myung Hwan handed over a Letter of Appreciation to Ambassador Abida Islam for establishing the `Bangabandhu Corner’.
SNU is one of the top-ranking public universities in Korea and presently it is ranked 36th in the 2022 QS Global World Rankings. SNU Library contains more than 5 million books, 2.5 million academic and electronic journals, and over 35,000 students are pursuing higher studies in this university.
The newly established ‘Bangabandhu Corner’ contains the Korean versions of ‘Historic 7th March Speech’, ‘Bangabandhu: The People’s Hero’, and ‘The Unfinished Memoirs’. Also, the Corner comprises a number of publications in English on Bangabandhu, his life, and political philosophy, history of Bangladesh’s War of Liberation including a few on the rich cultural heritage and tradition of Bangladesh.
It is anticipated that all these publications of the ‘Bangabandhu Corner’ will inspire the students to enrich their knowledge about Bangabandhu including his life, political philosophy and his contributions in founding an independent Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Embassy inaugurated another Bangabandhu Corner in the main campus library of Yonsei University in Seoul on 26 July and donated publications on Bangabandhu for the Library of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
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