The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has opened the Korean Cultural Center in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa to spread Korean culture across the North American country.

The opening ceremony was scheduled for 6 p.m. on Wednesday local time, with about 100 people from the two countries in attendance, including South Korea’s Ambassador to Canada Jo Dae-sik and Canada’s Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage Graham Flack.

The center, the 30th of its kind worldwide, houses an exhibition room, a reception room, the King Sejong Institute and a multipurpose room on a floor space of 348 square meters.

The multipurpose room will be used as a practice room for K-pop music and dance, and taekwondo as well as a cinema room.

The new center plans to hold a series of events from Thursday to Saturday, including a taekwondo performance and a joint concert between a Canadian orchestra and Korean musicians.