Do you know what a hanbok is? Or that there were double consonants and compound vowels in the Korean alphabet? The students of Beg-Avel college in Carhaix know this from now on. After a first edition last year, the college reorganized, again this year, its “Korea Day”, this Monday, June 1st. This second edition celebrates 140 years of diplomatic friendship between France and South Korea. Throughout the day, several workshops took place, bringing traditional Korean culture to Carhaix. The registered students were able to discover and dress in traditional Korean costume: the hanbok. Not far from the fittings, in the annex room, the middle school students rolled up their sleeves and, armed with brushes and ink, were introduced to Korean calligraphy, by Kim Kwangsook, a Korean artist based in Brest. “We came out of curiosity to discover the culture,” says one of the students.
Jimin Sibillat has been sharing his culture with students for three years now. (Le Télégramme/Ilan Bertin)
For three years, the two teachers have been offering this discovery workshop, very focused on the artistic dimension, with for example the creation of minhwa, traditional drawings. “We have the support of the Korean embassy”, which notably sent posters or a Korean literary background to the Beg-Avel college. “A day rich in discovery, which ended around 4:30 p.m., to give way to the next day’s classes and the routine of college.
