World K-SPEECH winner Galavi receives KRW 2.0 million prize money, certificate signed by the Korean President
NEW DELHI. Galavi Sharma, the JNU student who had created history in August by becoming the first-ever non-Korean to win the Korean Presidential Award in the 24th World K-SPEECH Contest, has received the certificate of honour signed by the President of Korea Moon Jae-in as well as the prize money KRW 2.0 million (South Korean Won).
The annual Korean speech contest was held in Fukuoka, Japan.
Kim Kyung Suk, Chairman, Korea Eloquence Association who was on a business trip to India on October 4-8, presented the certificate and prize money to Galavi during a ceremony held at the JNU campus.
Earlier in August during the World K-SPEECH Contest in Japan, Galavi had received a trophy and Korea Speech Eloquence Association flag.
Kim Kyung Suk delivered a special lecture ‘Korean speaking and K-Speech’ in JNU to motivate more students of Korean language departments at foreign universities to participate in the K-speech contest.
Chairman, Korea Eloquence Association said that the foreign speakers participating in the World Korean language speech competition spoke there like a Korean speaking contest. His lecture was focused on the ways to teach the potential contestants the right method of oration. “Oration” is the best and most prominent way of speech in the world, he said.
Hee-chul Jung, Director, Korea International Trade Association (KITA) in India, Prof. M Jagadesh Kumar, JNU, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ravikesh, Chairperson, Koo Sang Soo Chairman & President, Korea Speech Eloquence Association (India headquarters), Korea Eloquence Association, India headquarters and Anna Yang, Director, Executive Office of the Korea Speech Eloquence Association (India headquarters) and Research Scholar (Linguistics), School of Language, JNU were also present on the occasion.
In her address, Galavi congratulated Kim Kyung Suk for his hard work in promoting the Korean language worldwide. She also wished for the endless development of Korean eloquence.
Galavi (21) a Master of Arts (1st year) student in the Korean language at the Centre for Korean Studies (CKS), School of Languages, Literature & Cultural Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), had represented India to participate in the annual contest in which 55 contestants from 17 countries including Korea participated.
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