ld be possible that one could visit and see 2018 pyeongchang winter olympic games by travelling only one hour in ktx from seoul.once a double track railroad between wonju and gangneung is completed by the end of 2017, travel times from seoul to gangneung will reduce to less than 2 hours(about half an hour supposed to be spent travelling from wonju to gangneung), which means one starting from the capital region could access to the eastern coastal part of korea within 2 hours. compared with the case of the current rail system and express bus needing about six and ha...

cy seminar on strategies for interregional connected development of western urban area of gyeongnam(wuag), which pcrd hosted, took place at the city hall of jinju on may 15.this seminar, pcrd had jointly prepared together with gyeongnam development institute and dongnam regional devlopment committee, discussed collaborative development measures for wuag including jinju city and other 9 cities or counties in the vicinity of it: sacheon, tongyeong, geoje, namhae, hadong, hamyang, geochang, sancheong, gosung.those cities and counties of wuag took advantage of this se...

ensus on collaborative regional development through communication and harmony spreadpcrd hosted an inaugural meeting of collaborative regional development forum(crdf) at korea chamber of commerce and industry in seoul on may 10. at this meeting it was declared that the spirit of age related to 21st centurys regional policy is collaborative development, meanwhile it was agreed to spread a consensus on collaborative development based on communication and harmony widely and to prepare prepare policy measures for that object.crdf is an opinion seeking expert-led organ...

r on regional development policy research and the proposal for development of northern gyeongbuk, which pcrd hosted and the development association of the northern gyeongbuk(dang) was in charge of, took place at yeongju chamber of commerce and industry on mar 27.hong chul, pcrd chairman, began the seminar by delivering a keynote address on the road to collaborative development of regions. after that dr. lee at jeonbuk development institute and dr. park at region development research institute of dongyang univ. made presentations in turn respectively. also a subseq...

osted a working-level communication workshop to share experiences and examples of the creative zone and interregional cooperation project in yeosu on mar. 22.this workshop has been held for two days from mar. 22 to 23 and about 80 concerned people including director of executive office of pcrd, local officials in charge of those projects and related government officials attended the workshop. on the first day the following presentations were made; successful and failed examples of regional project, understanding of regional development policy, the explanation of t...

minar for the networking and cooperation of the southern coastal regions of korea, pcrd hosted and the development association of the southern coastal area(dasca) was in charge of, took place at world marine center in gwangyang, jeonnam on mar. 13. about 50 persons including concerned local officials and chairman of local councils from hadong, namhae, gwangyang, suncheon, boseong attended the seminar.hong chul, chairman of pcrd, started the seminar by delivering a keynote lecture on the road to collaborative development of regions. following that, presentations pr...

hul, chairman of pcrd, presented its 2012 annual task report to president lee myeong-bak on 31st jan, focusing on the subject of the road to collaborative development of regions: solidarity and cooperation over conflict.the chairman said at this presentation that pcrd would make every effort to do its messenger role between central government and regions, especially putting emphasis on mutual communication between central government and local governments as well as communication among each local government this year.also, he reported that pcrd chose interactive po...

osted a award ceremony for exemplary local governments on 28th dec. as a result of assessment of regional development projects in 2011.this ceremony was aimed at finding out outstanding regional development projects as well as promoting diffusion and sharing of achievements of those projects.pcrd evaluated 1,579 regional development projects from jan to may 2011 which had been conducted in 2010 and selected 23 exemplary cases. twenty exemplary cases of these nominees were finally confirmed by the deliberation of an appraisal board.financial incentives(250 million ...