HA NOI — A Korean language teaching programme will be broadcast on VTV 2 from today as a follow up to the first part aired last year.

The programme is implemented by the Korea Foundation in co-ordination with the University of Language and International Studies under the Viet Nam National University (VNU).

Korean is being taught at 14 universities in Viet Nam to a total of 2,600 students in addition to numerous language centres situated mostly in Ha Noi and HCM City. However, with around 3,000 businesses from the Republic of Korea operating in Viet Nam, employing nearly 400,000 Vietnamese workers, demand to learn the language is huge and existing facilities cope with all the new learners. As a result, the first Korean teaching programme to air on TV in 2012 received warm response and there are great expectations for the second part.

With the aim of popularising Korean and its culture in Viet Nam, the Korean Foundation, in collaboration with Kookmin bank, has published a Korean language textbook in Viet Nam, comprising six volumes. — VNS