The top-level team has arrived here to get five days of training from Korean development experts on the methods used in what the Koreans call "Saemaul Undong," a campaign that transformed remote, backward Korean villages into prosperous ones.
The thirty-member team comprises the former chairman of National Planning Commission, Gunanidhi Sharma, professors, Constituent Assembly members and other representatives from different Nepali organizations.
They members will receive training from Korean agricultural experts and others on different aspects of development initiatives at the Saemaul Undong training center.
There have been other delegations from third-world nations who have benefited from this unique program. Congo, for example, a country that is living through the kind of civil conflict that Nepal recently saw, was able to use the program to achieve much success.
During a meet held to mark the Nepali delegates´ arriving in Seoul, Nawaraj Panta, the director of Saemaul Undong-Nepal spoke about the similarities between Nepal and South Korea. He is also scheduled to make a presentation about a Saemaul Undong program that has been launched in Chitwan.
During the training, Korean campaigners will teach Nepali and Mongolian delegates about the different aspects of development of poverty.
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