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The high staff morale and sound achievements at all three places afford proof that such institutions can flourish in Korea on a basis of realistic planning for step-by-step development and can be productive even in their early stages.

The Atomic Energy Research Institute has also benefited from a "sister laboratory" arrangement developed with the Argonne National Laboratory under which it obtains assistance in overcoming minor bottlenecks in equipment supply and also counsel and guidance in planning its programs. The scientists at the Atomic Energy Research Institute laid heavy emphasis on the importance of the intangible benefits derived from this relationship, which gives them moral support derived from a sympathetic interest in their work on the part of an internationally known body of scientists and satisfaction from a shared excitement in the results of research in this advanced area of science.

The experience of these institutions is an encouraging demonstration that under favorable circumstances foreign trained Korean scientists can be attracted back to Korea, and