Meeting
A Successful Start to February
Visit of the Forest Technology and Management Research Center
On 3rd of February 2021 Dr Bernhard Seliger, representative of HSF Korea and Dr Hyun-Ah Choi, Senior researcher of HSF Korea visited the Forest Technology and Management Research Center (FTMRC) under the National Institute of Forest Science. There they had a meeting with Dr Nam Jin Noh, who is Research scientist at the Forest Practice Research Center (FPRC). The meeting was focused on cooperation related to nursery and reforestation project.
FTMRC conducts research on the creation and cultivation of forest resources and the establishment of infrastructure for forest management. They have a smart tree nursery and are researching on improvements concerning optimal nursery and forestation techniques. Dr Nam explained the current project and the smart tree nursery system, while Dr Seliger informed him about the forest project in North Korea and shared results for future cooperation.
Meeting with Prof. Cha Yong-Ku
In the recent years studying the role and characteristics of boarders is on the rise. It became a whole new research program. The DMZ but also the boarders of (North) Korea to China and Russia gained more attention in Korean research. But at the same time there was no systematic way to study boarders. Prof. Cha Yong-Ku, head of the Global Border Studies program in the Graduate School of International Studies at Chungang University and his colleagues started the government-supported program on "Reconciliation and Coexistence in Contact Zones" (RCCZ) three years ago. From September 2021, there will also be the first Korean Global Border Studies program. Since 2004 the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation has worked in the inner-Korean border area, among others with Goseong County, Yeoncheon County, Gangwon province and Gyeonggi province, in particular, on sustainable development issues. Prof. Cha and Dr. Bernhard Seliger of Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea discussed possible ways to cooperate.