Press Release

Doosan Yonkang Foundation (Chairman Yong Hyun Park) is hosting the 12th Science Teachers’ Study Tour for science teachers in elementary, middle and high schools in Korea from Jan. 22 to 29. Thirty-nine laureates of the Science Teacher of the Year Awards are attending this year’s tour, which is hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and organized by the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity. The eight-day, seven-night tour to Korea and Japan includes visits to industrial sites in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, as well as science museums, tech firms and high schools in the Japanese cities of Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. This year’s program offers a special lecture by Beom-sung Kim, a professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hiroshima Institute of Technology, about Japan’s Nobel Prize-winning scientists and the country’s science education. The Science Teachers’ Study Tour is a program designed to nurture the scientists of the future who will lead Korea’s advancement by providing science teachers a chance to observe science-related industrial and education sites both at home and abroad. Since 2007, Doosan Yonkang Foundation has offered tours to overseas academic facilities for teachers selected as Science Teachers of the Year, with 457 teachers participating in the program so far.▲The Science Teachers’ Study Tour delegates pose for a photo together in front of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution in Kobe, Japan, on Jan. 24.