Professor Ahn Jun-mo of Korea University ought to broaden public participation in science and know-how insurance policies
![The National Coalition for the Realization of a Right Science and Technology Society (Nongnyeon) held a forum to commemorate the 20th anniversary of its foundation on the 4th. From the fifth from the left of the first row, former Seoul National University President Oh Se-jung, honorary professor Lee Byung-ki, Korea University professor Ahn Jun-mo (next permanent representative), UNIST research vice president Ahn Sil-sil (current permanent representative), honorary professor Min Kyung-chan of Yonsei University, honorary professor Kang Shin-young of Chonnam National University, and honorary professor Lee Woo-il of Seoul National University. [Reporter Choi Wonseok]](https://wimg.mk.co.kr/news/cms/202512/04/news-p.v1.20251204.c485a910259f4c4a92393f8df74d0bc6_P1.png)
The “National Coalition for the Realization of a Right Science and Technology Society,” a group of scientists and residents celebrating its twentieth anniversary, will create a new science and political college. This is to assist science and know-how folks take part extra in politics and search a coverage course of based mostly on scientific grounds.
On the 4th, the fruit affiliation held a commemorative discussion board to mark the twentieth anniversary of its institution and introduced the institution and operation of a science and political college. The Fruit Research Institute, which was created 20 years in the past to comprehend a science and know-how society, has to this point expressed the place of the scientific society as a consultant of main science and know-how agenda.
“We need to reflect on whether South Korea has pursued real self-directed innovation over the past 20 years,” mentioned Ahn Sil-gye, the everlasting consultant of the analysis division at UNIST, in a assertion on the twentieth anniversary. “There were not enough opportunities for the people to participate in science and technology policies.”
Representative Ahn mentioned, “The government has used science and technology as a political slogan, such as green technology, creative economy, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” This resulted in the focus of science and know-how insurance policies on short-term efficiency. CEO Ahn mentioned, “Creative research has become difficult as the basis of policy-making remains in quantitative indicators such as resources, papers, and patents.”
As a answer, the fruit affiliation introduced the growth of public participation. In line with the pattern of the period of nationwide sovereignty, science and know-how insurance policies ought to be made with the participation of many individuals in addition to public officers and some specialists. Representative Ahn mentioned, “We will ensure the participation of the people in science and technology policies to meet the era of national sovereignty and promote communication between science and technology and politics to achieve the scientificization of politics.”
To this finish, the fruit affiliation introduced its plan to create a science and political college to assist science and technicians perceive the coverage course of and broaden political participation. Jeong Seong-cheol, head of the expeditionary analysis institute, mentioned, “Politics only seeks scientific grounds that suit our taste, and scientists and engineers are buried in science and do not consider public opinion or finance.”
The Science and Politics School of the institute plans to teach folks focused on science and know-how, together with aspiring science and engineering college students, subject researchers, and parliamentary aides, on numerous fields of science and know-how coverage. Researchers find out how science and know-how insurance policies are made.
Advanced international international locations akin to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany already function science and political colleges. Field researchers are taught science and know-how insurance policies or coverage processes, and some establishments help science and technicians’ advance into politics.
On at the present time, the fruit affiliation elected Ahn Joon-mo, a professor of public administration at Korea University (present chairman of the fruit affiliation), as the subsequent everlasting consultant. Professor Ahn graduated from the Department of Applied Chemistry at Seoul National University and obtained a Ph.D. in technical administration from Cambridge University in the UK. He handed the technical examination in 2003 and understands science and know-how and coverage processes, together with working in public places of work at the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning.
The twentieth anniversary of the fruit affiliation is taken into account to be a one that can lead the folks to take part in science and know-how insurance policies with new tasks akin to science and politics colleges and science communicator labs. Professor Ahn mentioned, “I have a heavy responsibility for taking such an important position,” including, “I will do my best not to become a nuisance in the history of 20 years.”