'Behind Enemy Lines': The Education of Korea
Indonesian studies is a phenomenon fast growing across Koreaone motivated by the importance of the Indonesian market for South Korean companies. These companies plan to invest billions of dollars over the coming years in industries ranging from infrastructure to garment, textile and steel.
November 16, 2011
PROFESSOR Yang Seung-yoon initially began to display interest in the Indonesian and Malaysian languages because of activities in 1962 linked to the Colombo Plan, an organization focused on fostering cooperative economic development between member nations.
He recalled the time when he could not find literature that could properly describe Indonesia in clear detail. "We were studying like someone following a dim ray of light in the dark of night," sa
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