Press Release

Doosan Yonkang Foundation (Chairman Yong Hyun Park) is hosting the 11th Science Teacher’s Study Tour for science teachers in elementary, middle and high schools in Korea from Jan. 9 to 16. This year’s tour is being attended by 37 laureates of the Science Teacher of the Year Awards, hosted by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning 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 Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. This year’s program offers a special lecture by Jung-Kook Hong, former professor of the University of Tokyo, about Japan’s Nobel Prize-winning scientists and the country’s science education. Since 2007, Doosan Yonkang Foundation has offered tours to overseas academic facilities for teachers selected as Science Teachers of the Year, with 418 teachers participating in the program so far. ▲ The Science Teacher’s Study Tour delegates pose for a photo together after a visit to Osaka Prefectural High School.▲ The Science Teacher’s Study Tour delegates pose for a photo together in front of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution.