Doosan Group’s Yonkang Foundation (Chairman: Y.H. Park) will offer the “Third Science Teachers’ Overseas Study Tour” for the winners of Science Teachers of the Year Awards from February 2 to 8.

The program, which is hosted by the foundation to help promote science and technology, benefits 41 winners of the 2008 Science Teachers of the Year Awards, who were selected by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Korea Science and

Engineering Foundation.

The teachers will take tours to industrial sites in Korea, including plants for Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction, Doosan Infracore and Doosan Engine in Changwon, Gyengsangnam-do. Afterwards they will also visit Japan to take tours to science-related

museums in Tokyo, and Toyama High School, and experience advanced science and technology and science education in that country during the seven-day program.

Y.H. Park, Chairman of the foundation, said, “We expect teachers who will learn and experience advanced science and technology will convey their vivid experiences to their students and prompt students to develop keen interest in basic science.”

Meanwhile, the Yonkang Foundation has supported science teachers’ overseas study tours every year since 2007.

A total of 107 teachers have participated in the annual program. The foundation has also supported academic study tours, which allow teachers to visit Korean cultural property from the ancient Goguryeo Kingdom in China, and legacies of ancient Baekje culture in

Japan, which are historic sites of ancient Korean people. A total of 1,813 teachers benefited from this program.