Bidding - the International Association of the Catalysis Societies

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Korea - Australia (1993 – 96), attest to the very active international exchanges that were organized by the Catalysis Division. In 1996, the 11 th International Zeolite Conference was organized by the Catalysis Division. This event, which drew about 800 participants from home and abroad, was the largest IZC ever, and it was also the largest international event organized by the catalysis community of Korea. Korean scholars have actively taken part in other international meetings including ICC, North American Catalysis Meeting, and the Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science & Technology (TOCAT). Korea sent the largest foreign delegation to TOCAT3 held in 1998, accounting for 26 among 110 overseas participants. In 1997, the Korean catalysis community, now grown to membership exceeding 400 active participants undertook, with the help of the Japanese, U.S., Chinese, and Australian catalysis communities, to consolidate a number of bilateral and trilateral meetings into a single regional one. The first Asia-Pacific Catalysis Congress (APCAT) was successfully launched in Gyeongju, Korea in November 1997 with over 200 participants from 12 countries including Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, and the U.S. in the Pacific rim and beyond. The APCAT was subsequently held in Sydney, Australia in January 2000 (second) and in Dalian, China in October 2003 (third). At present, the Catalysis Division has about 120 members with Ph.D. degrees; there are another 280 members with M.S. degrees, about half of them pursuing Ph.D. degrees in universities in Korea, with the rest engaged in R&D activities within industrial research laboratories. Members regularly publish in such international journals as Journal of Catalysis, Catalysis Letters, Journal of Molecular Catalysis, Catalysis Today, and Applied Catalysis A and B. A number of them serve on the editorial boards of the following journals and edited special issues as guest editors. ● Editorial board members: Applied Catalysis A (S.H. Moon), Applied Catalysis B (I. Nam), Catalysis Letters (S.I. Woo, J.S. Lee), Topics in Catalysis (S.I. Woo, J.S. Lee), Cattech (J.S. Lee), J. of Mol. Catal. B (S.B. Lee), Res. Chem. Interm. (S.-E. Park), Cat. Surveys from Asia (S.H. Moon, G. Seo) ● Guest editors of special issues: Stud. Surf. Sci. Catal. Vol.102 (H. Chon, S.I. Woo, S.- E. Park), Vol.105 (H. Chon, S.-K. Ihm, Y.S. Uh), Vol.146 (S.-E. Park, R. Ryoo, W.S. Ahn, C.W. Lee, J.-S. Chang), Catal. Today Vol.38(2) (Y.G. Kim, I. Nam), Vol.44(1-4) (Y.G. Kim, J.S. Lee), Vol.83(1-4) (S.K. Kang, S.I. Woo), Vol.87(1-4) (J.S. Lee, W. Choi, Y. Okamoto) As a rough measure of their vigorous publication activities, readily available statistics show that the faculty members associated with the center-of-excellence, RCCT, (on average about 24 professors at any given time), have published 495 papers in these international journals during the 8 year period, 1992 – 1999. The industrial utilization of catalysts has been increasing dramatically in the past few - 61 -
decades. Catalyst industry that began in 1991 enjoyed a healthy 28.6% growth per year, and produces catalysts valued in excess of 100 million U.S. dollars, while Korean industries import about 250 million U.S. dollars worth of catalysts, not counting the catalysts embedded in licensed technologies. The petrochemical industry, which began with a planned ethylene production capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year in 1968, grew by leaps and bounds. Ethylene capacity stands at 5 million metric tons, a 50-fold increase in the quarter century that ended in 1993, making Korea the fifth largest ethylene producer in the world. Much effort is being expended in order to develop catalytic technologies for manufacturing downstream chemical intermediates from the outputs of naphtha crackers. Chemical industries account for about 20% of Korean GDP, which is the 11 th largest in the world. The rise of chemical industries in 1960s heralded the economic development of Korea, and the catalysis community has a vital role to play in the growing sector of the economy. Catalytic technologies have yet to reach a mature phase in Korea, thus the catalysis community has an increasingly vital role to play in the growing sector of the economy. Collaborative efforts between the academic/research community and industrial practitioners will bring about the fruition of the 2 decades of activities in the form of a large number of indigenous catalytic technologies, both for domestic use and export. This brief introduction to catalysis-related activities will close with a somewhat larger picture of Korea’s total R & D efforts. Korea has been devoting an increasing portion of its GDP toward R & D expenditures during the past two decades. After reaching 1% of GDP in 1982, it kept rising until it reached 2% in 1991, 2.5% in 1995, and has remained above 2.5% ever since, which is one of the highest among the OECD member countries. Considering that Korean economy has experienced one of the fastest growths in the world during the past few decades, this increase in R&D outlay is significant. In terms of the government expenditure, 5% of the national budget was earmarked for R&D in the year 2003. R&D manpower per 1000 in the labor force is approaching 5, which is quite close to the average for the G7 nations. - 62 -
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Section 2 Rationale for Bidding Gil
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Page 14 and 15: Section 3 Proposal for the 14 th IC
Page 16 and 17: 1-2) Scopes • Review of research
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Page 20 and 21: 4) Finance The budget has been esti
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Page 26 and 27: • Mt. Bukhansan National Park Mt.
Page 28 and 29: Section 4 Venue and Facilities Hote
Page 30 and 31: Catering Seoul's renowned Chosun Ho
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Page 36 and 37: Accommodation COEX Inter-continenta
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Page 72 and 73: 5) Highlights in Academic Output C&
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Page 76 and 77: C&EN Volume 78, Number 21, p. 8-9 (
Page 78 and 79: Nature 408, p. 449-453 (2000) Direc
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