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Our own experience has shown clearly that technological processes and improvements, both in industry and agriculture, can seldom be transferred as a package, either within our own industrial structure or to the developing countries. They must be adjusted and adapted to the new environment and to its human and material resources. This transfer, to be successful and enduring, must be made to a community that has achieved a technological level within reach of the technology offered and which is making its own contribution to the common understanding of the problems involved. There is a wealth of scientific and technological "know-how" in the rest of the world which can be drawn upon and adapted to the solution of Korean problems, provided that there are in Korea people whose knowledge and experience enable them to take an active part in this process. In order to take from the world, Korean engineers and scientists must contribute to it as well.

This point was made to me by a leading Korean industrialist who expressed his support for the proposal to establish the Institute. He said that although he had built the finest plant