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MOU in the US established as global leaders commence study abroad


Friday, May 11, 2018


ATHENS, Ga. – LOGODI has today entered into its first MOU in the US, prefacing a five-week term of study in the country by the 28 Korean local government officials in this year’s Global Leaders Program.

President Park Byungho of LOGODI arrived with the delegation in Athens, Georgia, yesterday and met with the Associate Director of the International Center at the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government (CVIOG), to discuss the itinerary planned for the weeks ahead. The courses at the institute will form part of the G-PEPS (Global Practical English & Policy Study) component of the Global Leaders Program, which will occupy the trainees’ schedule until June 15.

On this occasion, President Park also made a courtesy call to City Hall, to thank Mayor Nancy Denson and the Manager of Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Blaine Williams, for their support for the program through job shadowing arrangements with their officials across a series of departments.

An MOU for cooperation in civil service training, internships, and exchange was then entered into between LOGODI and CVIOG, at a signing ceremony hosted by the university. The agreement marks LOGODI’s first formal relationship with the US, and establishes the two organizations’ commitment to plan and carry out mutually beneficial activities in a broad range of governance and development issues. In his remarks, President Park expressed his sense of honor to be at the “birthplace of public higher education in the US,” along with hopes that the new “win-win partnership” would serve toward even stronger ties between Korea and the US.

After several weeks of lectures, study and site visits, cultural experiences, and job shadowing, the participants will travel onward in separate teams to the locations corresponding to their research projects. This year’s teams focus on start-up support, autonomous decentralization, urban revitalization, job creation in the local food industry, and social enterprises. Collectively, destinations will include public and private institutions in New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, and several other cities in the Eastern US.