Launching of the IAHR-Korea Chapter

On September 2007, the Korean IAHR members of about 60 persons established the IAHR-Korea Chapter. What we intended from this establishment is to promote the IAHR and IAHR-Korea activities among potential IAHR members as well as the existing members in Korea, to conduct our IAHR-related activities effectively by systematic maneuvers and to eventually promote the knowledge and experience of hydraulic engineering and research among ‘water’ engineers in Korea and thus contribute to our society with our professions.

The main tasks of the IAHR-Korea Chapter, among others, are as follows:
- To organize conferences, seminars and symposiums on hydraulic engineering and research in Korea
- To recommend key persons in Korea to the various levels of IAHR and IAHR-APD organizations
- To conduct works related to the Journal of Hydro-Environment Research (JHER), a one-year old journal published by IAHR-APD)Asia-Pacific Division) and sponsored by KWRA(Korea Water Resources Association) and other IAHR activities in Korea.

The key persons for the IAHR-Korea Chapter, who have been elected by the IAHR members in Korea, are as follows:
- Chairman: Dr. Hyoseop Woo, KICT (Korea Institute of Construction Technology)
- Vice Chairman for geophysical hydraulics: Prof. Il Won Seo, Seoul National University
- Vice Chairman for coastal hydraulics: Prof. Young Sik Cho, Hanyang University
- Vice Chairman for water resources management and hydrology: Prof. Sang Man Jeong, Gongju University
- Secretary: Dr. Chang Wan Kim, KICT

Meanwhile, Prof. Jeong Kyu Lee, Hanyang University, the official representative of Korea for IAHR-APD will keep his role until the next IAHR-APD conferences in Nanjing China, 2008.

Written by Dr. Hyoseop Woo, Chairman of the IAHR-Korea Chapter

Key members of IAHR-Korea Chapter with Prof. Tamai, President of IAHR (from left; Dr. Cho, Dr. Lee, Dr. Woo, Dr. Tamai, Mrs. Tamai, Dr. Kim, Dr. Seo and Dr. Jeong), taken on November 2007, when Dr. and Mrs. Tamai were invited to the 40th anniversary of KWRA