Yeungnam University-Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education agrees on MOU
[2008-9-2]
Yeungnam University (president Tong-Ki Woo) will put into full-force 'Dokdo Education' together with the Gyeongsangbuk-do Office of Education (superintendent Cho Byeong-in).
At 3pm on the 2nd, Yeungnam University and the provincial office of education agreed upon an MOU. The research performed at the Yeungnam University Dokdo Institute, which is a main policy research center designated by MEST promised to cooperate in providing these research to schools under the provincial office of education.
For this, the two organizations agreed to promote not only education for a hightened sense of awareness for Dokdo among teachers and students, but also books and research program development for investigating marine environments, ecology and biologies, mutual use of facilities for Dokdo coastline development and for education on Dokdo.
Meanwhile, the Yeungnam University Dokdo Institute will dispatch an academic investigation team to Dokdo from the 4th to the 6th. This team that will visit Dokdo aboard the 'Haemaji', which is a boat possessed by the Pohang Marine Science High School, to investigate the Dokdo coastline marine environment and ecology, biological organisms found in Dokdo and basic studies for developing resources of Dokdo.
In addition, this team is planning to hold a boat-top workshop on 'Dokdo and Marine Territory' aboard the 'Haemaji' on the 5th.
This workshop is being held to display the marine pioneering spirit of Ahn Yong-bok and under the theme of 'Notifying the territorial rights of Dokdo' it will be conducted in the order of Professor Kim Ho-dong's speech on 'Ahn Yong-bok and Dokdo' and Professor Choi Chang-geun of Daegu University who will speak on 'the Difference of the issues of Japan's northern territories and Dokdo'. Following this, on the theme of 'Dokdo's natural ecology and populating policy', Dr. Kim Young-dae of the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute Resource Restoration Team will speak on the 'tides and chlorosis of the Dokdo coastline', while Park Seon-ju, professor at Yeungnam University will speak of 'Source of Dokdo's plant life and preservation plans' and Professor Cho Gye-hyeon of Yeungnam University will speak on 'establishing a scientific environment for populating Dokdo'. Following these speeches, there will be a discussion session in which Lim Dong-ok professor at Honam University, Kim Mi-gyeong professor at the Yeungnam University Dokdo Institute, Lee Jae-weon researcher at the Dokdo Museum and Kim Yeong-sik professor at Andong University will participate in.
Kim Hwa-gyeong (61, Department of Korean Language and Literature), chief of the Yeungnam University Dokdo Institute stated that "We need to prove objectively and logically that Dokdo is Korean territory so Japan can never again make absurd claims." She also added that "the government and academic sector will work together in order to show the world Korea's sovereignty over Dokdo."
