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the presence of the First Secretary in the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Amman
Kim Jiyoung, Dr. Park Byoungju from the Korean Section at the School of Foreign
Languages on Tuesday, March 29, delivered a lecture on contemporary Korean literature
for graduate students in the Department of English Language and Literature at the
University of Jordan (UJ).
The lecture, entitled “Korean Literature and Globalization”, focused on two
short stories by contemporary Korean writers, Kim Joo-young and Kim Jae-young.
The former’s short story, titled “Robbery Training,” depicts the lives of lower-class
people in South Korea in the 1970s, while the latter’s short story, titled “The
Elephant,” focuses on the lives of immigrants in South Korea in the 2000s.
The lecture, which came within the course “Special Topic in World Literature”
that is offered to graduate students enrolled in the PhD program in English
literature, was attended also by faculty members from the School, and it
included a Q & A session about the historical development of Korean
literature and the extent to which it affected and was affected by other
literary and cultural movements.
According to the course convenor, Dr. Yousef Abu Amrieh, a lecture on Hungarian literature was delivered two weeks
ago by the Cultural Attaché at the Hungarian Embassy in Amman and this
is the second public lecture during this semester for graduate students and
faculty members on literary texts from various civilizations and cultures and it
will be followed by three more public events on Maltese, Slovenian and literatures,
to be delivered by academics from those countries, either on-campus or online.