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| A poster of 8th Venice in Seoul 2020 film festival |
Latvia and Italy are also ready to open the year, with the former scheduled to host an opening ceremony for a photo exhibition, titled "The Secrets of Amber," Jan. 16, and the latter to run the 8th Venice in Seoul 2020 film festival from Jan. 15 to 23.
Azerbaijan will resume its annual remembrance for Black January, a bloody crackdown on anti-Soviet protesters in the capital Baku from Jan. 19 to 20, 1990.
These are some of the early events of the embassies and cultural institutes in Korea.
The Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in Seoul organized the fair at The K Hotel in Seocho-gu, southern Seoul, to raise awareness of the Central Asian country's tourism potential and helping its travel companies to build relations with Korean enterprises.
Kyrgyz Ambassador to Korea Dinara Kemelova delivered the opening speech.
"The Secrets of Amber" exhibition will be organized by the Embassy of Latvia in Korea at the Soorim Cultural Foundation in Dongdaemun-gu. The exhibition, which runs through Jan. 31, will introduce the works of Latvian photographer Andris Zegnrs.
"The exhibition highlights one of the greatest natural endowments of Latvia ― amber ―which dates back 40 million years and can still be found on the Baltic shores," the embassy said. "It is a fresh perspective of amber with close-ups of a unique world, millions of years old, including insects and plants from a very distant past preserved due to the chemical composition of amber."
The Italian Cultural Institute in Seoul will run the Venice in Seoul 2020 film festival.
It will especially mark the centenary of the birth of acclaimed Italian director Federico Fellini.
The opening screening at Seoul Art Cinema will feature "The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used To Be" (2019).
The remembrance for the 30th anniversary of Black January will be held at Lotte Hotel in downtown Seoul, Jan. 17.
The Embassy of Azerbaijan in Korea will introduce a Korean translation of selected poems by Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh.
The 1990 uprising eventually led to Azerbaijan's declaration of independence on Oct. 18, 1991, and is therefore viewed as "the rebirth" of the Azerbaijan Republic. The country declared independence in May 1918, after the Russian Empire collapsed.
