RAS to open its branch in South Korea in May 2011.

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SEOUL, November 9 (Itar-Tass) -- A Korean office of the Siberian
branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) will be set up in the area
of the city of Kannyn on the eastern coast of the country, South Korean
Minister of Education, Science and Technology Lee Ju-Ho said in an
exclusive interview with ITAR-TASS and the South Korean newspaper Chung'
ang Ilbo.
Speaking about the accumulated experience, further plans of scientific
and technical cooperation and joint with the RAS researches, the minister
said that "in 1992, we concluded an agreement between the Korean Fund of
Science and Technology and the RAS, within the framework of which we began
to carry out joint researches, exchange scientists." On this basis, in
July 2010, the Korean Institute of Science and Technology jointly with a
number of institutes of the RAS Siberian branch opened a Russian-Korean
centre of bio-cooperation to carry out joint researches in the field of
biotechnology and technical cooperation.
Within the framework of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of
diplomatic relations, which is marked now, the Russian-Korean centre of
scientific and technical cooperation and the RAS will hold a
Russian-Korean scientific and technical forum on issues of
nanotechnologies, chemistry and biotechnology.
Besides, as the minister said, "South Korea and Russia are closely
cooperating in the ITER project. "The large-scale ITER project is an
excellent example of joint participation and cooperation of South Korea
with Russia, the United States, Europe, Japan, China and India," the
minister said.
"Such international scientific and technical cooperation will help
solve problems of lack of energy in the world and environmental
protection. This cooperation is one of the ways to ensure future
development of humankind," Lee Ju-Ho stressed.
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