Korea Road Traffic Authority Signs MOU with 13 Organizations for 'Establishing Artificial Sun Research Infrastructure in Gangwon-do'

On the 25th, Lee Jumin, Chairman of the Korea Road Traffic Authority (fourth from the right in the bottom row), and Choi Moon-soon, Governor of Gangwon Province (sixth from the left in the bottom row), along with representatives from 13 organizations, signed a business agreement to establish a research foundation for artificial sun in Gangwon Province and took a commemorative photo.
[Photo by Korea Road Traffic Authority]

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-joo] On the 25th, the Korea Road Traffic Authority signed a business agreement with 12 institutions from industry, academia, research, and government, including Gangwon Province, Hanyang University, and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, at Sejong Hotel in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, to promote the ‘Gangwon Province Artificial Sun Research Base’.

The main contents of this agreement are ▲ research cooperation on new transportation means related to new energy industrialization ▲ establishment of an industry-academia-research-government network for the artificial sun research base ▲ support for attracting the national project artificial sun research complex to Gangwon Province.

The Korea Road Traffic Authority, which relocated to the Innovation City in Wonju, Gangwon Province in 2015, is participating in the e-mobility cluster construction project worth a total of 47 billion KRW to help Gangwon Province emerge as a future transportation hub city.

Through this agreement, the Korea Road Traffic Authority plans to focus its capabilities on research cooperation related to the construction of a hydrogen transportation complex base utilizing hydrogen, a byproduct of the artificial sun industry, and the activation of new transportation means.

Lee Joo-min, Chairman of the Korea Road Traffic Authority, said, “Through this business agreement, I hope it will become a cornerstone for developing the world’s top-level artificial sun commercialization technology centered on Gangwon Province and fostering Korea’s future new growth engine industry.”

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