Korean Polar Research Institute

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Korea SouthSouth Korea Korean Polar Research
Institute - KOPRI -p1
position Research institution and logistics service provider for polar research
Consist since 2004
Arose from Polar Research Center at the Korean Institute for Marine Research and Technology (KORDI)
Headquarters Incheon
Coordinates 37 ° 22 '5 "  N , 126 ° 38' 48"  E Coordinates: 37 ° 22 '5 "  N , 126 ° 38' 48"  E
president Yoon Ho-Il
Employee 292
Website www.kopri.re.kr

The Korean Polar Research Institute ( Korean 한국 극지 연구소 , English Korea Polar Research Institute, KOPRI ) is a government-funded research institution in South Korea based in Incheon . The institute with 292 employees, including 23 academics and 13 students, is the lead institution of the Korean program for exploring the polar regions of the world and at the same time a logistics service provider for polar research . The research focus of the institute is polar climate change as well as biodiversity and the geological development of the polar regions. In 2016, KOPRI had a budget of 54.89 billion won (around 43 million euros ). The institute advises the government of the Republic of Korea and represents the state in various international organizations .

history

The history of polar research in the Republic of Korea began in 1987 when the polar research laboratory at what was then the Korean Institute for Marine Research and Technology (KORDI) opened in March and the Korean National Committee for Antarctic Research (KONCAR) was founded in August of the same year. On February 17, 1988, the King Sejong Station on King George Island in Antarctica began its work. South Korea, which joined the Antarctic Treaty in 1986, was granted consultative status in October 1989. In July 1990, the polar research laboratory was enlarged and renamed the polar research center. In 2002 the arctic Dasan station was opened in Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard . In April 2004, the Korean Polar Research Institute was founded as a research facility affiliated with KORDI. In March 2006, KOPRI moved to the Incheon Free Economic Zone. Three years later, the ice-breaking research ship Araon was put into service and undertook its first test run in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas in summer 2010 . On April 29, 2013, KOPRI opened a new building complex in Incheon and completed the second construction phase of its research laboratory in 2016. The institute has a cold laboratory, a clean room for the storage of meteorites , a laboratory for electron microscopy and an analysis room for oxygen isotopes . In 2014, KOPRI opened the Jang Bogo Station on Terra Nova Bay as the second South Korean research station in Antarctica.

Structure of the research area

The research area of ​​KOPRI is divided into the following departments and units:

President

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Korea Polar Research Institute on the University of the Arctic website , accessed November 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ Research Field on the website of the Korean Polar Research Institute (English), accessed on November 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Hyun-Soo Kim, Chun-Ju Lee, Kyung-Sik Choi, Moon-Chan Kim: Study on icebreaking performance of the Korea icebreaker ARAON in the arctic sea . In: International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering . Volume 3, No. 3, September 2011, pp. 208-215, doi: 10.2478 / IJNAOE-2013-0064 (English).
  4. ↑ Research Department on the website of the Korean Polar Research Institute (English), accessed on November 12, 2019.