Excursion
Research Trip to Germany
Dr. Son and Dr. Matthes
HSF has great interest in sharing the German experience of reunification in order to share lessons learned in the past. A trip with the agenda of mutual exchange like the one from the 28th of July until the 2nd of August is a perfect opportunity for that.
Prof. Dr. Son Gi-woong, President of Korea Institute for Peace and Cooperation as well as President, Korea Association of DMZ, was the main organizer, who together with his son, Son Hyeck-joon (Student at University of Film Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), a scholar of HSF, who played an important role as an interpreter; and 5 more Delegates of the Korea Coal Corporation including its president Yu Jeong Bae as well as 2 Experts of the Korea Energy Economics Institute including Dr. Kim Kyung Sool , travelled to Berlin and Hannover in order to meet with numerous experts and visited several museums and even an opencast mine.
The activities began on Monday the 29th of July with a meeting between the delegation and Dr. Felix Christian Matthes, coordinator of research Energy and Climate policy, Climate protection at the institute of applied ecology in Berlin.
Afterwards Ing. Horst Kreie and Ing. Peter Stenzel gave a guided tour of the Museum of Energy specifically about the Connection of the Electricity- and district Heatingsystem between East and West Germany.
The Delegation listening to Dr. Wellmer
The following day started with a meeting between Prof. Dr. Kai Niebert of the Deutsche Naturschutzring (DNR), which is an organisation occupied with nature protection. The DNR has done significant work for the German government in a commission on the topic of Energy and the approximation of East and West Germany regarding this topic.
After travelling per car to Hannover on the 31st of July the Delegation met Professor Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, who held an interesting presentation with the title “Transfer of the centralised authoritarian geological and raw material structures and organisation of the German Democratic Republic into the federal and free market system of the Federal Republic of Germany with special regards to coal”.
On the next day the travellers visited the opencast mine of the LEAG in Welzow Süd, where they followed a guided tour by Peter Laux. This was the last activity of the trip, which brought the studies to a successful end.
