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 Welcome to the website of Hamel Year 2003!
Looking to find out what goes on between Korea and The Netherlands in 2003? You have come to the right place......
The Netherlands and Korea have a long history of relations. Our first contacts date from the 17th century when people like Hendrick Hamel and Jan Janse Weltevree (Pak Yon) reached the shores of "The Hermit Kingdom".
On this website you can learn more about their fate. And about Hamel's Journal, the first description of Korea in the West, which was published in 1666 after Hendrick Hamel and the Dutch sailors who shipwrecked in 1653 returned home after 13 years.
Commemorating their arrival 350 years earlier, we have designated 2003 as "Hamel Year", and are organizing a number of events in both countries. Activities in Korea range from exhibitions of Dutch art and design to trade missions, and from academic exchange to tourism promotion.
I hope the information will draw your attention to what we have to offer in 2003, even to the point that you will become an active participant in "Hamel Year 2003"!
Radinck J. van Vollenhoven
Ambassador of The Netherlands |
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