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Study and research trip to Germany
35 Years after Unification: Korean Delegation visits Germany – exchange, remembrance and shared perspectives

The Hanns Seidel Foundation has been organizing study tours on German reunification for many years. Even 35 years later, interest from Korea remains undiminished.

A delegation from Gyeonggi Province, led by Kim Young-Soo, is currently visiting Germany. In Berlin, the group met with the Korean ambassador and received lectures on reunification.

A highlight was the visit to the Stasi Archives, which commemorates the dark past of the GDR.

Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea since many years organizes study trips on German unification. While after 35 years this is now almost history, the Korean interest in German unification remains high. One of our partners in the field of unification is Gyeonggi province. Currently, a group of civil servants of Gyeonggi province is in Germany with Kim Young-Soo, project manager of Hanns-Seidel-Foundation in Seoul. In Berlin the group met Ambassador Lim Sang-Beom and unification attaché Koh Dong-Un. Also, former German Ambassador Christoph Eichhorn discussed with the group about unification in the German Federal Office for Civic Education. Finally, the group visited the Stasi (Secret Police of East Germany) archive, to learn about one of the most dark aspects of East Germany´s history, the deeds of its secret police, and attempts to come to terms with this past in unified Germany.