Korea Institute for Maritime Strategy (KIMS) and the ROK Seapower League co-hosted the “Shipboard Seminar for National Maritime Power Reinforcement”. The event was held from November 18 to 20 on a cruise ship sailing between Busan and Osaka, and the program was composed of two seminars and a field trip to Osaka city. This was the first shipboard seminar co-hosted by the KIMS and the Seapower League, and approximately 120 participants from various backgrounds who are interested in national maritime power reinforcement joined the event. In his welcoming remarks, VADM Taeho Won (ret.), President of the KIMS, emphasized that this is an event “where people can experience the importance of the sea ‘in the field’”, and asked for participants’ continuous interest in national maritime power.


