A Korean county works to revive ties with Vietnam
In short
- About 800 people gathered Saturday at Chunghyodang in eastern South Korea.
- The event marked a Vietnamese prince's arrival on the peninsula 800 years ago.
- Korean and Vietnamese speakers shared the event, with some English.
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The county is using a commemoration to reconnect with a clan descended from a Vietnamese prince. The event brought together Korean and Vietnamese speakers in one historic building. The source is brief, so its wider effects are not yet clear.
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From The Korea Herald
Some 800 people gathered Saturday at Chunghyodang, a centuries-old building tucked away in the mountains of eastern South Korea, where conversations could be heard in Korean, Vietnamese and occasionally English. They had come to commemorate an unlikely historical connection: The arrival of a Vietnamese prince on the Korean Peninsula 800 years ago and the Korean clan descended from him. “We are gathered here to retrace the historic relationship between Korea and Vietnam that spans over 800 years,
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