Peace in the Korean Peninsula: UNESCO Education

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Home - Peace in the Korean Peninsula Updated: 2002-10-23 8:24 am

In July 2002, a cargo ship docked at the Nanpo Port on the west coast of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and unloaded 200 metric tons of printing paper. The paper was shipped directly from the Republic of Korea to be used to print English textbooks for middle school students. It was donated by the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (through an Education Fund sponsored by SAMSUNG Electronics) and Hankok Paper Mfg. Co., Ltd., based in Seoul.

“This project is the first of its kind and it contributes to the ongoing process of reconciliation between DPR Korea and the Republic of Korea,” says Dr Yersu Kim, Secretary-General of the Republic of Korea National Commission for UNESCO.

UNESCO has been facilitating the negotiation process and an agreement was reached in early 2002. In August, workers in a Pyongyang printing shop were busy running off 600,000 copies of English textbooks for the 2002/2003 school year.

Contact: Qian Tang, UNESCO Paris
E-mail: q.tang@unesco.org

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