South Korean Currency

                 The won (₩) is the currecy of South Korea. A single won is divided into 100 jeon, the monetary subunit. The jeon is no longer used for everyday transactions, and appears only in foreign exchange rates. Although there was a long and complex history about how the won (₩) has evolved, there are only four different value of coins and four different value of notes in present day which are the most common and used everyday. One of the smallest value of coins is ten won(₩) and you can see the picture below.

                And then fifty won(₩), one hunderd won(₩) and five hunderd won(₩)respectively. From one thousand to above, there are four different bank notes, which are one thousand note, five thousand note, ten thousand note and fifty thousand note.

ကိုရီးယားႏုုိင္ငံသံုး ေငြေၾကးရဲ႕ ယူနစ္ကေတာ့ (ဝမ္) လုိ႕ေခၚပါတယ္။ တစ္ဝမ္ကို အပံု တစ္ရာပံု တစ္ပံုကို (ဂ်ဳံ/ဂြ်န္)လို႕ေခၚၿပီး အဲ့ဒါကိုေတာ့ လက္ရွိမွာ သံုုးစဲြျခင္း မရွိ ေတာ့ဘဲ ႏုိင္ငံ တစ္ကာ ေငြလဲလွယ္ႏွူန္း တြက္ခ်က္ဖို႕အတြက္ေလာက္ပဲ သံုးတယ္လုိ႕ဆိုပါတယ္။(မွတ္ခ်က္-ႏုိင္ငံတစ္ကာ ေငြေစ်းႏွူန္းမ်ားမွာ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ ဒႆမ မ်ားျဖင့္ ထြက္ ရွိသျဖင့္ အသံုးဝင္ျခင္းျဖစ္ႏုိင္ပါသည္) ကိုရီးယား ဝမ္ ဘယ္ကေန စျဖစ္လာတယ္ ဆို တာ ကို ရွင္းျပထားတဲ့ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္းေတြက ရွည္လ်ားၿပီး ရွူပ္ေထြးလြန္းတာေၾကာင့္ စာဖတ္သူတို႕ အတြက္ လက္ရွိေစ်းကြက္မွာ အမွန္တစ္ကယ္ သံုးစဲြေနတဲ့ ပိုက္ဆံနဲ႕ အေၾကြ ေတြအေၾကာင္းပဲ ေျပာျပေတာ့မယ္။ အေၾကြေတြကေတာ့ တစ္ဆယ္၊ ငါးဆယ္၊ တစ္ရာ၊ ငါးရာ ဆိုတာေတြျဖစ္ၿပီး ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႕ျမန္မာမွာ အရင္ကသံုးစဲြခဲ့တဲ့ အေၾကြေစ့ေတြနဲ႕ ဆင္တူပါတယ္။ တစ္ေထာင္ကေန ငါးေသာင္းအထိကိုေတာ့ ပိုက္ဆံအရြက္ အျဖစ္ေန ထုတ္ေဝသံုးစဲြၿပီး တစ္ေထာင္တန္၊ ငါးေထာင္တန္၊ တစ္ေသာင္း တန္နဲ႕ ငါးေသာင္းတန္ တို႕ျဖစ္ၾကပါတယ္။

မွတ္ခ်က္- တစ္ေထာင္  (ေခ်ာ္ႏြမ္)

              ငါးေထာင္     (အိုေခ်ာ္ႏြမ္)

              တစ္ေသာင္း  (မာႏြမ္)

              ငါးေသာင္း    (အိုမာႏြမ္) ဟုကိုရီးယားဘာသာျဖင့္ေခၚဆိုပါသည္။

Korean Food (Gimbap)

                Gimbap or kimbap is a popular Korean dish made from steamed white rice (bap) and various other ingredients, rolled in gim (sheets of dried laver seaweed) and served in bite-size slices. Gimbap is often eaten during picnics or outdoor events, or as a light lunch served with danmuji or kimchi.

                The basic components of gimbap are rice, meat or other protein-rich ingredeints, and a large variety of vegetables, pickled, roasted, or frest. Traditionally, the rice is lightly seasoned with salt and sesame oil/perilla oil. Popular protein ingredients are fish cakes, imitation crab meat, eggs, and (or) seasoned beef rib-eye. Vegetables usually include cucumbers, spinach, carrots, and danmuji (pickled radish). After the gimbap has been rolled and sliced, it is typically served with danmuji.

Hankyong National University

                 Hankyong National University is the only national university in Gyeonggi Province. It is located in Anseong, a city approximately 80 kilometers from Seoul. The university specialises in fields such as environmental engineering, agricultural science, biotechnology, information technology and computer engineering. It was founded on April 14, 1939 and now it is 72 year old.

                 Hankyong National University has two dormitory buildings. Hoyeon-gwan was opened in 2007 and can accomodate 372 students in 186 rooms, and Bibong-gwan was also remodeled in 2007 and can accomodate 184 students in 46 rooms. In addition, the university operates facilities such as fitness room, computer room, study room, laundry room and lounge in the dormitories.

                 The dorm provides the most affordable and convenient option to graduate students of the Program. Comfortable and accessibel, the dorm is air conditioned, and provides internet access in each room. The room in the dorm are organized in suites. Each suite is composed of three rooms (1 person/room for KOICA students and 2 persons/room for native students). The occupants of these rooms share their unit's bathroom and toilet. Air conditioner, heating, TV, refrigerator, computer, printer, bed, bed linen, pillow, desk, bookshelf, closet, shoe chest, phone, desk lamp, LAN cable, shared Bathroom, shower, toilet, etc. Study room, TV room, laundry room, gym, computer room, table tennis, playroom, laundry drying room, lounge (TV, PC, table) are also availale in common use.