World Cup brings Iranian, Korean poets together in Tehran

TEHRAN,June 18(MNA) -- A group of South Korean poets traveled to Iran to join Iranian literati to offer their encouragement to the Iranian and South Korean national football teams at the 2014 World Cup. The group held a meeting with a number of Iranian literati at the Iranian Poets’ Society in Tehran on Monday. The Korean poets, including Shin Dalja, Chung Ho-Seung and Jun-Sik Kim, along with Iranian poets delivered speeches and recited poetry during the meeting. Among the Iranian poets were Moshfeq Kashani, Fatemeh Rakei, Saed Baqeri, Soheil Mahmudi and Afshin Ala. Korean Ambassador Sung Wung-Yeub and Korean cultural attaché Kim Jung-Sik also attended the meeting. The meeting continued with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Iranian Poets’ Society and the Society of Korean Poets. They also watched an Iran-Nigeria football match, which was broadcast from IRIB’s Channel 3 at 11:30. In addition, they are scheduled to watch other Iranian and South Korean games with other teams during the 2014 World Cup. The Korean poets and the Iranian literati are scheduled to play a friendly match on Tehran’s Saadatabad football field on June 22. The Korean group’s visit, which has been organized with the help of the Iranology Foundation, LG Electronics, and several other institutes, will end on June 23.