International Activities

On May 21, 2024, the Korea Research Institute for Local Administration (KRILA) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) held the 28th Korea-Japan Regional Policy Research Meeting at the Osaka International Convention Center in Japan on the theme of ways to revitalize interregional cooperation to strengthen regional competitiveness.

The research meeting began with an opening speech by Hirofumi Takada, vice-president of GRIPS, and a greeting from Acting President Joo Jae-bok of KRILA, and proceeded with two sessions.

The first session was announced by Lee So-young, head of the Korea Institute for Regional Public Administration, under the title of a plan to revitalize regional cooperation to strengthen regional competitiveness, followed by Park Jae-hee, head of the Korea Institute for Local Autonomy Decentralization Research Center, on the subject of cooperation projects between local governments in abandoned mines in Gangwon State.

The second session was announced by Japan's Yuichiro Hanyu (JIAM, head of the research department at the National Institute of International Culture and Training in Sieup-myeon) under the theme of regional linkage between local governments in Japan, followed by Yumi Nishijima (Deputy Director of the Kansai Regional Federation Headquarters) on the title of the Kansai Regional Federation.