The second POSCO Asia Forum was held yesterday in Seoul. The POSCO Asia Forum is an annual event hosted by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation that was named after the steelmaker's founder Park Tae-joon.
The forum is designed to provide an arena for discussion in various Asia-related fields and also has presentations of the results from research projects funded by the foundation. At this year's event, 22 papers on the subject of increasing collaboration and understanding among Asian nations were presented.
In his opening speech, POSCO chief executive and TJ Park Foundation chairman Lee Ku-taek said that the need for research on Asia is growing ever greater as the region continues to grow. "Asia's dynamic economies, cultural heritage and its sociological potential have grabbed the attention of the world," Lee said.
"Along with rapid economic growth and globalization of the region, its values are also changing and the need for research efforts to shed new light on the issues has also grown."
This year's event also hosted the 10 researchers sponsored by the TJ Park Foundation's Asian experts program, which sponsors academics to study abroad and to develop expert knowledge on Asian countries.
At the forum, the keynote speaker Shraishi Takashi, vice president of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan, said that with Asia's growth, the world order will become more complicated and that Asian nations would need to carry out strategic talks and prepare for changes.
Another keynote speaker Ian Chubb, president of Australian National University, said that Korea and Australia should be looking to increase intellectual exchanges to form the basis for widening economic and political cooperation.
Other speakers at the forum included Hanyang University's sociology professor Kim Doo-sub and Professor Kwak Jun-hyuk of Korea University's department of political science and international relations, who presented papers on issues related to the integration of foreigners into Korean society.
By Choi He-suk
(cheesuk@heraldm.com)
@ Korea Herald
--my thoughts
Asia has been growing so rapidly. It is getting more spotlight ever before, yet the glorious day of Asia hasn’t come. So as the article mentions, it is getting important to know about Asia while the world is getting globalize. At this, POSCO has been doing very meaningful forum. We might have to pay attention what they’ve found. As Asia’s importance gets bigger we need to research how Asia is changing and where Asia is going relate to the world economy and international relations etc.. Asia yet does not play as a main role in the global field but it might play as one in few years. We have to pay attention not only to the western world but also to the Asia even we live in Asia.
The forum is designed to provide an arena for discussion in various Asia-related fields and also has presentations of the results from research projects funded by the foundation. At this year's event, 22 papers on the subject of increasing collaboration and understanding among Asian nations were presented.
In his opening speech, POSCO chief executive and TJ Park Foundation chairman Lee Ku-taek said that the need for research on Asia is growing ever greater as the region continues to grow. "Asia's dynamic economies, cultural heritage and its sociological potential have grabbed the attention of the world," Lee said.
"Along with rapid economic growth and globalization of the region, its values are also changing and the need for research efforts to shed new light on the issues has also grown."
This year's event also hosted the 10 researchers sponsored by the TJ Park Foundation's Asian experts program, which sponsors academics to study abroad and to develop expert knowledge on Asian countries.
At the forum, the keynote speaker Shraishi Takashi, vice president of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan, said that with Asia's growth, the world order will become more complicated and that Asian nations would need to carry out strategic talks and prepare for changes.
Another keynote speaker Ian Chubb, president of Australian National University, said that Korea and Australia should be looking to increase intellectual exchanges to form the basis for widening economic and political cooperation.
Other speakers at the forum included Hanyang University's sociology professor Kim Doo-sub and Professor Kwak Jun-hyuk of Korea University's department of political science and international relations, who presented papers on issues related to the integration of foreigners into Korean society.
By Choi He-suk
(cheesuk@heraldm.com)
@ Korea Herald
--my thoughts
Asia has been growing so rapidly. It is getting more spotlight ever before, yet the glorious day of Asia hasn’t come. So as the article mentions, it is getting important to know about Asia while the world is getting globalize. At this, POSCO has been doing very meaningful forum. We might have to pay attention what they’ve found. As Asia’s importance gets bigger we need to research how Asia is changing and where Asia is going relate to the world economy and international relations etc.. Asia yet does not play as a main role in the global field but it might play as one in few years. We have to pay attention not only to the western world but also to the Asia even we live in Asia.
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