■Land Development and Management Policy
Over two years from 2007, KRIHS carried out jointly with the Egyptian government a research project on building the capacity for land develop-ment and managedevelop-ment of Egypt. On this occa-sion, KRIHS invited to a couple of training pro-grams in 2006 and 2007, public officials of the Egyptian government engaged in the fields of the above research, and tried to share with them Korea's experiences in territorial and land devel-opment including related knowledge and know-hows accumulated over the past half century.
In the 2007 training program, a total of 10 officials participated: technicians engaged in the above joint research, and officials and experts from the central government. During the course, they learned Korea's experiences in land policy establishment, and had an opportunity to discuss how to tackle the challenges Egypt was facing in the field of land development.
Through various professional lectures provided in the program, the participants had chances to learn the knowledge and know-hows on land development. The topics covered at the programs
include development of economy and territorial policy of Korea, land and housing policy of Korea, strategies for attracting private investment and application of GIS technologies to urban planning. Following lectures, the participants had study visits to Bundang, a typical New Town of Korea, and the New Songdo City, a New Town currently under development. Coupled with this, the participants had a two-day field trip to the Daedeok Innopolis in central Korea in order to learn the know-hows on creation and manage-ment of an industrial complex that serves as a growth engine of the region as well as the nation.
Learning lessons through diverse activities in the course, the participants are expected to come up with more advanced and effective strategies for territorial and land development in the future.
KRIHS provides training programs every year for government officials from developing countries around the world, with a view to share Korea's experiences in territorial policy development and implementation and transfer related knowledge and know-hows to the nations. The programs are intended to contribute to enhancing the capacity of the participating countries to establish and implement spatial policies. Also, they are targeted at cultivating human resources required for the relevant fields of the nations.
In 2007, KRIHS hosted a total of three training programs throughout the year : ‘Land Development and Management Policy' for Egyptian government officials, ‘Regional Development Policy' for Kurdistan regional government officials of Iraq, and ‘Urban and Regional Development Policy' for public officials from 11 countries around the world.
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■Regional Development Policy
With the intent to support Iraq, which is presently making all-out effort for restoration and recon-struction of the country after the war, KRIHS has invited public officials from the central and regional governments of Iraq every year since 2003, and provided training programs of intro-ducing Korea's experiences and policy case stud-ies on territorial development. The programs are intended to transfer to them Korea's know-hows on territorial policy establishment accumulated to date in the field of regional development. In 2007, a total of 18 officials from the Kurdistan Regional Government of northern Iraq attended the training course.
Throughout the 16-day training course, the participants were educated with various spatial
policies and systems Korea has tried over the past half century. Coupled with this, the participants visited several places and institutions including new town development sites and the Korea Expressway Corporation's Transportation Infor-mation Center, along with the planned site for the new administrative city, which is under construc-tion under the government initiative for balanced national development. The study visits provided the participants with the chance to broaden their understanding of Korea's policies on the territory.
In addition to this, the participants could deep-en their understanding of Korea's growth deep-engines of economy, and unique and high level of culture during the course through a 3-day field trip to major industrial facilities of Korea and various cultural experiences in Seoul and provinces. Not only could the participants cultivate their capaci-ty to establish and implement policies for the restoration work, but Korea and Iraq could broad-en their understanding of each other through the program, which is expected to further strengthen the base for mutual collaboration between the two countries.
■Urban and Regional Development Policy
With a view to introduce experiences and policies Korea accumulated in the course of compressed economic growth and territorial development over the past several decades, and thus help developing countries set up more advanced and effective policies on territory and cultivate human resources, KRIHS is providing the ‘Urban and Regional Development Policy' training pro-gram for developing countries around the world
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every year. In 2007, a total of 11 countries of Jordan, Uzbekistan, Cambodia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Philippines, Nepal, Tajikistan and Ethiopia participated in the training program.
Covering the themes of urban and regional development, the training course provided several professional lectures on territorial policy includ-ing such topics as land, housinclud-ing and transporta-tion, and introduced accomplishments along with the errors and mistakes Korea made while pro-moting territorial development over the past half century. Study visits to relevant places and insti-tutions including New Town development sites followed the lectures, providing the participants with opportunities to broaden their understand-ing of the related policies and systems.
During the program, the participants made a 3-day field trip to typical Korean industrial facilities including the POSCO and the Hyundai Heavy Industries, and had various cultural experiences in Seoul and provincial areas. The activities were intended to enhance the participants' understand-ing of Korean economy and culture.
The participants could learn various lessons from territorial policy case studies of Korea
pre-sented at the training program, and on this basis along with the country report the participants prepared for the program, both Korea and the participating countries endeavored through dis-cussions to explore solutions to challenges the participating countries are presently facing in the field of territorial development.
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■Delegation from Special Committee on NDS of Mongolia
Members of the Special Committee on the NDS of Mongolia, headed by Chairman Mr Tsedeneamba, visited KRIHS on April 11, and had in-depth dis-cussions with KRIHS members on strategies for the national development of Mongolia.
The delegates expressed keen interest in the process, main bodies in charge, and major con-tent of the Comprehensive National Territorial Plan of Korea during the visit. In response to this, experts from KRIHS in the fields of regional development, transportation and tourism provid-ed in-depth reviews and consultations on Mon-gol strategies for national development sector by sector.
In particular, they stressed that the Mongol plan should provide core strategies according to priorities, linking sectoral plans to each other, as well as policies to manage the capital region of Ulan Bator.
■Bangladesh Government Officials Visit On May 18, four delegates from the Bangladesh
Bureau of Educational Information and Statistics, including System Manager, Mr Mofazzal Hossain, visited the Geospatial Information Research Cen-ter of KRIHS.
For the visit, part of a KOICA training program, the center briefed trends in the national GIS poli-cies of Korea, the role of the center and its major research projects. In particular, the officials demonstrated keen interest in methods to extract data from aerial photographs and satellite images and software used when building a spatial data-base.
■Iraqi Civil Workers Visit
A group of seven Iraqi civil staffs participating in a training program at the Korea Expressway Cor-poration for 6 weeks visited KRIHS on May 31st.
The visit was organized to provide Korea's advanced knowledge of national territorial plan-ning and information technology. Two research fellows of KRIHS gave special lectures on the 4th Comprehensive National Territorial Plan of Korea, and the nation's strategies for Intelligent Trans-portation System construction. After the lectures,
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