Welcome to the Homepage of Asia-Pacific Cooperation Academy (apca), one of  the major poerational units within Kangwon National University, South Korea.

On April 26, 2005 the Asia-Pacific Leadership Center was founded with the aim of providing a wide range of education and training programs for future leaders of the developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. the Center poved to be very successful, and the decision was taken to develop a wider cision for the future. Accordingly, on March 1, 2008 the name was changed and the Center became the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Academy, reflecting new plans to present both leadership programs and training courses on technical and trategic topics inportant in the modern world.

The Academy now offers a training program designed for technology management executives, focusing on agricultural and livestock biotechnology, environmental and other branches of engineering, and business administration, as well as courses covering promotion of industrial development and strategic economic policy. The academy also offers International Studies Program and various leadership training programs for the students of Kangwon National University.

The activities of the Academy, and especially the training facailities and programs which have been devised with the specific needs of the Asia-Pacific region in mind, enjoy the active support of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), and plans are currently being made for joint programs to be operated by the Academy in conjunction with Korea International Cooperation Agency ( KOICA).

The innovative spirit of Kagwon National University will ensure that the Academy will enable future leaders to develop their capabilities fully and effctively. You are warmly invited to make full use of all our facilities.

Thank you for you attention, and I hope that your future will be happy and succssful.

Dean

Hyun-Hoon Lee

March 1, 2012