As part of the international cooperation between ISU and the University of Suwon (Hwaseong, Republic of Korea), Evgenia Kolodina, Head of the Department of Linguistics and Linguodidactics, gave a series of lectures in Korean at the partner university.

The lectures included several blocks:

• Presentation of the main directions of ISU educational programmes.
• Continuity of Korean language teaching in Irkutsk (from school to university).
• Recommendations for improving the methodology of teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) at the Korean university in close cooperation with ISU.

ISU representatives also held a quiz about Russia for students studying Russian. All participants received prizes and gifts.

All the expressed key vectors became the subject of detailed discussion at a meeting with the President of the University of Suwon Yim Kyeong Sook. The head of the university said that she pays special attention to supporting students going on language internships and expressed a desire to expand the scope of student exchange programs.

Currently, IIEL students are undergoing a language internship at the University of Suwon, and students from the University of Suwon are studying at the preparatory faculty for foreign citizens at IIEL.

During the visit, the guests were shown a new project of the University of Suwon, where students, in their free time from the main studies, create various samples under the guidance of teachers – from car parts to printed advertising products, receive orders from small and medium-sized businesses, and can open startups in various directions.