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Source: Novosibirsk State University – Novosibirsk State University –
A book entitled “Cheonan Independent Cultural City Archives 2024” has been published in the Republic of Korea, containing 10 entries about its Russian-speaking residents. The author of the publication is Oh Dong-gon, a graduate of Novosibirsk State University who studied at the NSU Humanities Institute in 2014-2015 under the student exchange program between the Busan University of Foreign Studies and NSU.
Cheonan, the largest city in Chungnam Province, was selected as one of the first “legally established cultural cities” by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea in December 2019. From 2020 to 2024, the “Cheonan Culture City” project was promoted under the motto “An independent cultural city where the cultural sovereignty of residents is realized.” Oh Dong-gun served as a people’s correspondent for the Cheonan Culture City Center of the Chungnam Provincial Information and Cultural Industry Promotion Agency from June to October 2024. He interviewed Russian-speaking citizens of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan living in Cheonan.
The book presents 10 conversations with Russian-speaking residents of Cheokang, engaged in such areas as culture and art, beauty and health, restaurant business and trade, manufacturing and medicine, as well as social activities – participation in the work of the branch of the Koryo-saram Association in the Republic of Korea. The publication describes the experience of visiting the art and history museums in Cheonan by Russian-speaking students living and studying in the city of Asan, neighboring Cheonan. It also tells about a Russian grocery store in the Sinbudong quarter of the Dongnam district of the city of Cheonan, where a large number of Russian-speaking residents live.
Oh Dong-gon says that his experience as a public correspondent for the Cheonan City Culture Center and as a Korean-Russian language tour guide at the Cheonan City Art Museum under the Cheonan Culture Foundation helped him in working on the book. For this work, he was selected as the best cultural volunteer last year and received a letter of thanks from the CEO of the Cheonan Culture Foundation for his contribution to local culture.
— I am very glad that in the last year of the Cheonan Cultural City project, I was able to get acquainted with the lives of Russian-speaking residents who are members of the Cheonan and Korean society and wrote about them. The Cheonan Cultural City project was a valuable opportunity for me to confirm and apply in practice my knowledge of the Russian language, as well as the knowledge of the cultural diversity of territories and the coexistence of different peoples in a multinational society obtained at NSU. I hope that my works will further serve as historical sources of information about the Cheonan Cultural City project and its multinational population, and will also help spread the values of cultural diversity, mutual understanding and coexistence in the society of Cheonan and Korea as a whole. I am confident that my book will contribute to increasing interest in the Russian language, Russia and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Korea, — said Oh Dong-gon.
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Oh Dongon is a citizen of the Republic of Korea, a graduate of the Russian Language Department at the Busan University of Foreign Studies.
He studied Russian at the Busan University of Foreign Studies under Irina Mironyuk, senior lecturer at the Center for International Educational Programs at the Humanities Institute. In 2014–2015, he completed an internship at the Faculty of Humanities (since 2016, the Humanities Institute of NSU) of Novosibirsk State University under the scientific supervision of Sergei Alkin, associate professor at the Department of Archeology and Ethnography at the Humanities Institute.
Oh Dong-gon’s research on regional studies and local history of Korea and Russia, including the history of passenger ships between Korea and Russia, Russian-speaking immigrants in Sinchang Township, Asan City, were presented in Russian by a Russian scholar.
Currently, Oh Dong-gun works at the International Student Support Center of the Office of International Education and Cooperation of Sooncheonhyang University in Asan City.
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