Dr YJ Park, Director, Indo-Korean Center for Research and Innovation (IKCRI), New Delhi, and Hyo Hee Lee, the Science and Technology attaché at the embassy of the Republic of Korea, recently visited the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi.

The two-day trip included discussions on potential collaborations between IIT Mandi and the Korean Universities that can contribute to the institute’s vision of serving the stakeholders of both communities via technological interventions and research. 

During their campus tour, Dr Park and Lee visited multiple state-of-the-art labs including MANAS Lab, ACS Lab and Advanced Materials Research Centre, BioX Centre, Centre for Design and Fabrication of Electronic Devices (C4DFED), and IIT Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation (iHub) and interacted with the students and researchers at the respective facilities. 

While meeting the Institute’s Director, Prof Laxmidhar Behera, Dr Park, and Lee discussed the Korean Ambassador’s visit to India, to participate in the institute’s colloquium as well as to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between IIT Mandi and Yonsei University College of Medicine.