SEOUL, Seoul has been chosen as the venue for the 2024 Asia's 50 Best Restaurants awards, the city government said Sunday.
A list of the top 50 restaurants will be announced at the awards ceremony set for the last week of March that will bring about 800 gastronomy experts from around the world, officials said.
A specific date and venue will be announced later by 50 Best, the Britain-based organizer.
In this year's list, four restaurants in South Korea were included.
City officials said the event is expected to promote awareness of Korean food, as well as food tourism in Seoul.
Source: Yonhap News Agency
The Association of Vietnamese People in Thailand and the Vietnamese community in Mukdahan province on November 11 organised a ceremony to honour the Vietnamese Thai teachers who have made significant contributions to the teaching of the Vietnamese language in Thailand. The event was organised in response to the Vietnamese Teachers' Day (November 20). Vietnamese Consul General in Khon Kaen Chu Duc Dung sent his best wishes to the expat Vietnamese teachers, saying with great dedication and experience, they have maintained the teaching and learning of Vietnamese, helping arouse national pride and encourage the young to remember the homeland. Chairman of the Association of Vietnamese People in Thailand Nguyen Ngoc Thin said that despite formidable challenges, the first generations of Vietnamese in Thailand set up 'camps for kids', and organised the teaching of Vietnamese to their children. The Party and State of Vietnam have paid tribute to the work of the Vietnamese Thai teachers, and have organised many tr ips for them to visit the homeland as well as training courses for the teachers in the hope to maintain the mother tongue among the Vietnamese Thai community, he added. According to Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong, who is in charge of the education board of the Vietnamese association in Udon Thani province, after a long halt by COVID-19 the teaching and learning of Vietnamese has been resumed in the province with eight classes, more than 30 students and ten teachers./.