A KRRI delegation of five people led by vice president Keun-yul Yang visited Russia September 1 on their eight-day schedule to discuss joint research plans on international level with their counterpart.

Coupled with the talk, they made a tour around research facilities at Siberia Transport University while attending the STU international symposium to speak on rail technology and also looked around rail facilities in Vladivostok.

In the international symposium entitlted "Roles of the academies for international cooperaionship and globalization", Ken-yul Yang and Yeol Jun, president of Pyungyang Railroad University of North Korea voiced their will and gravity to restore Trans-Korean line where attendees showed great interest.

The eight-day visit to Russia is expected to drive actual joint research programs in the territory of railroad between the two organizations.

In the meantime, Dr. Hee-seung Nah, head of the Trans-Korean Railway Engineering Corps participated as a speaker in the "Korea-Russia Rail expert Symposium" held on September 16 and 17 where collaborative agenda and measures had been discussed on a bilateral level. The discussion was made prior to the Korea-Russia Summit Talks slated between September 19 and 23.