The University of Lancashire’s 2025 Korea Day is held in collaboration with Preston Sejong Institute and the International Institute of Korean Studies
Timetable
(events in Foster Building Social Space except where indicated)
- 12 PM, Opening, with some Korean snacks
- 1 PM, Study in Korea -– Korean proficiency is not required.
- 2 PM, Working in Korea -– Korean proficiency is not required.
- 12 PM – 3 PM
- Hanbok (Korean traditional costume) Experience
- Dancheong (Korean traditional design) Experience
- Korean Calagraphy Experience & Contest: (prize: Learn Korean with TyniTAN Kit – winner will be announced at 2.50 PM)
- Exhibition on North Korea
- 2.30 PM – 4.30 PM: Documentary Screening in Foster Building Mitchell & Kenyon Cinema (FBLT1): “Arari, Age Eleven”: North Korean Defector’s Memoir
An Eleven-Year-Old’s Arari (열한 살의 아라리)
“An 11-year-old discovers a defector’s memoir and crosses the distance between two childhoods divided by a border.”
In a Seoul studio, Eunjoo—a North Korean defector—prepares to record an interview about her escape. At the same time, 11-year-old Yesol travels with her family to Jeongseon, a quiet town in Gangwon Province. There, Yesol stumbles upon Eunjoo’s memoir. Page by page, she comes to recognise the meaning of human rights and the power of solidarity, as two distant lives begin to rhyme.