"I'm impressed with NEFU interdisciplinary work. We want to get acquainted with the university research in detail to help in finding Korean partners in future", Pak Chong Nam, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Irkutsk, said at a meeting with NEFU on April 23.

"We are very proud that NEFU established partnerships with many universities around the world, including 19 Korean universities. South Korea is primarily technologies. We have to cooperate", NEFU Rector Evgenia Mikhailova said. She added that the joint research projects, unique laboratory for processing oil and gas, the study of plant genetics and cloning a mammoth joined many scientists in the creative teams, and they came to the threshold of discoveries. "Samsung equipped Industrial Museum of Yakutia, which is visited by citizens and where our students are trained. Young scientists interested in Korean technology of artificial islands creation", the rector said.

The purpose of the visit of Pak Chong Nam, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Irkutsk, besides the meetings on cooperation with the republic was a lecture for the students of the federal university on diplomatic experience in the various countries of the world. "All the people of the world are very similar, have the same values ​​of life. But the closer people live to the North, the more open and friendly they are. For example, in America, if the car broke down on the road, no one will help you, but closer to Canada more chances for help", the Consul General said. Mr. Pak Chong Nam told that since taking the office he has begun work to establish partnership with the regions, included in his consular district. "Russia is very important for Korea and significant country, says our president, we hope that the sanctions imposed by the European Union, the USA and Japan, will end sooner. Our country, of course, will not impose sanctions against Russia", he said.