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CONFIDENTIAL
PS/Lord Glenarthur
From:
R Cooper
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Far Eastern Department
Date: 3 January 1989
cc: Mr Gillmore •
Mr McLaren, Mr Hum, HKD,
Mr Colvin, SEAD, Mr Richards, SAD, Mr Furness, SPD
LORD GLENARTHUR'S TRAVEL
LORD GLENARTHUR'S TRAVEL
A B 1. Your minute of 21 December refers and Mr McLaren's of
22 December.
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You might like to have some specific suggestions for a visit to Korea. When he was in Seoul this February, the Minister had little to chance to do more than attend the official functions related to the presidential inauguration and to visit Panmunjom. If he goes again he should take the opportunity of seeing what the country is like outside the capital. Some ideas which come to mind are:
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the ancient Shilla capital of Kyongju in the South East (one of the ten most historic cities in the world, according to UNESCO)
the new POSCO steel complex at Kwanayang Bay (POSCO is now the second biggest steel producer in the world after Nippon Steel: the furnaces for the new plant were provided by Davy McKee of Sheffield)
one of the country's car assembly plants, either Hyundai (in Ulsan - where the shipyard is also situated) or Daewoo (in Inchon near Seoul)
Research and Development institute attached to one of the large Korean conglomerates (Samsung, Daewoo or Lucky Gold Star: all are impressive)
the Science and Technology Institute built by POSCO near their original steel complex at Pohang (opened on a green field site only a couple of years ago and already a most impressive establishment; its president was trained at Birmingham University and subsequently worked at Caltech)
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