Chairman Baek Soo-hyun of the Korea Standards Association

The Korea Standards Association (KSA) held the first KSA Standard Policy Colloquium at The-K Hotel in Seoul on April 19.

The forum was designed to share and suggest standard policy ideas. It was the first such seminar designed to build a standard ecosystem in accordance with the fourth National Standard Master Plan that goes into force this year and the restructuring of the national standard operation system into an inter-ministry participatory one. 

Lee Kwang-ho, head of a center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), spoke on ways of connecting and innovating standards and R&D. The keynote speaker touched on the significance and roles of standards in the National Innovation System (INS), trends in connecting global R&D and standards, procedures for screening major research fields for spurring the linkage of standards and R&D, and suggestions on the improving of standards and R&D policies. 

Panelists engaged in vivid discussions. Amongst them were: We Kyu-jin, chief producer of the Institute for Information & Telecommunications Technology Promotion (IITS); Prof. Jang Eui-sun of Hanyang University; and Park Joo-seing, director in charge of standard policy at the Korean Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS) under the umbrella of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE). 

Chairman Baek Soo-hyun of the Korea Standards Association and President Han Tae-shik of Dongkuk University hold a certificate of MOU on New Industry Manpower Development they signed on April 19. (Photos:KSA)

KSA Signs MOU on New Industry Manpower Development with Dongkuk University 

The Korea Standards Association singed an MOU with Dongkuk University on April 19 regarding “excellent manpower development” in such new industries as the Post 2020 Climate Change Regime, smart factory and the theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) and the building of infrastructure for joint research through collaboration, among industry and academic circles and technology development .

The agreement calls for developing, spreading and operating educational programs to nurture talented manpower; energy conservation under the Post 2020 Climate Change Regime; and joint collaboration and operation for reinvigorating future new energy industries; mutual cooperation for ramping up universities’ global competitiveness in such areas as TRIZ and smart factories; the building of a joint research infrastructure for new industries through collaboration among industry and academic circles and technology development; and aggressively building a cooperative regime in all areas like the utilization of such databases as standards R&D reports and international standardization trends.

“We will not only strive to cope with such new industries as the Post 2020 Climate Change Regime and smart factory, but also we will endeavor to make the university a role model of preparing for the future through its specialization efforts based on social demands,” Chairman Baek Soo-hyun of the Korea Standards Association said during the signing ceremony.