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Seoul city Mayor Oh Se-hoon (2nd R) and visiting students from the Indonesian Cia-Cia tribe, look at Korean characters written in a language called Hangeul at "The History of King Sejong" pavilion during a photo call in Seoul December 23, 2009. South Korea had been a distant country, home to Samsung TVs for the 60,000 members of the Cia-Cia tribe until earlier this year when a Korean woman with a love for her country's writing system convinced them to adapt the Korean script. The tribe, looking to preserve a fading language that had been passed down orally but not through writing, agreed and since then the tribe has won its way into the hearts of South Koreans, who have rewarded it with teachers, text books and aid. To match Reuters Life! KOREA-INDONESIA/TRIBE.
