The Canadian province of Alberta will hold an event to mark 40 years of sister ties with Korea's Gangwon Province.
 
According to the Calgary City Council and the city's Korean association, the eleventh Korean Day Festival will open on Saturday at the Shaw Millennium Park. 
 
The Alberta provincial government will extend congratulations by sending senior officials to the festival, including the Alberta justice and solicitor general. 
 
Others scheduled to attend the event include Senator Yonah Martin, the only Canadian senator of Korean descent, and Vancouver’s South Korean Consul General Lee Kie-cheon. 
 
The government of Alberta first forged partnership ties with Gangwon Province through a joint trial project in the livestock sector in the 1970s.
 
The South Korean province where the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will be held was the first foreign local government Alberta established sister relations with in 1974.