1. The Foreign Ministry will hold cultural performances in Poland and the Czech Republic -- member states of the Visegrad Group (V4) -- to mark the establishment of cooperative relations between the Republic of Korea and the V4 and to step up cultural cooperation among the countries concerned. To that end, the Ministry will dispatch a cultural arts performance troupe, composed of fusioned traditional Korean music artists and b-boy dancers, to the two member states of the V4 to introduce Korea to their peoples through cultural performances.

* Dates and venues of performances
- Agrykola Park, Warsaw, Poland, at 15:00, June 13
- Prague Congress Centre, Prague, the Czech Republic, at 19:00, June 16

2. Ahead of the planned performance in Poland, the ROK Foreign Ministry will hold a workshop on b-boying for local youngsters in Warsaw on June 11, offering Polish youngsters an opportunity to learn b-boying first-hand and youngsters of the two countries to have special experience of cross-border and cross-language communication through their common interest of dance.

3. The ROK Foreign Ministry held Korean cultural performances in Hungary and Slovakia in 2014 to celebrate the establishment of the ROK-V4 cooperative ties in the year. The Ministry will continue to hold a variety of cultural events to help people around the world better understand Korean culture.


* unofficial translation