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National Science Museum and from the Korean Minister of Education. As a result, a local Korean Committee, to help organize the September meeting, was fromed under the chairmanship of Dr. Yung-Sun Kang of the Department of Zoology of Seoul National University. Through subsequent correspondence and aided by a May meeting in the United States, Dr. Kang and American associates at the Smithsonian Institution and the American Association of Museums were able to develop preliminary suggestions for a modern science museum center to be presented to participants at the September meeting in Seoul.

Because of the anticipated presence of an ecological survey group studying the area south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone, the American contingent at the meeting was increased from an original 4 to 13 persons. On the Korean side, Mr. Tong-Joon Sung, Vice Minister of Education was elected to head a contingent of 24. Local funds for the Seoul meeting were allocated by the Korean Government at the 68th Cabinet Meeting held on August 9, 1966.

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In all parts of the world, museums are being recognized as essential and effective parts of the general education system. The rapid increase in all fields of knowledge, the increasing specialization of education, the critical shortage of teachers in many countries, require that all useful resources be brought to bear on education at all levels. In rapidly industrializing 

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