I have been invited as a guest speaker for KIOST (Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology) and NOAA workshop in Vienna, Virginia. KIOST director Dr. Kang and other KIOST staff visited from Korea and shared our interests in ocean environments. I have honestly never met this many Korean scientists before but this meeting absolutely broadens my view in oceanography.
NOAA-KIOST collaboration seems to focus on ocean observation and the exchange of oceanic technologies. For examples, IMET (Institution of Marine Environmental Technology) in Baltimore has been working together with KIOST for about a decade. And it is really pleasure to hear that Korean government invests lots of money to all sorts of oceanographic division.
