YANGON, Nov 24, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The South Korean government will send more overseas volunteers to work in Myanmar's agricultural, technical and health sectors this year, sources with the resident Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Myanmar will also dispatch more than a dozen government staff to South Korea to study forestry-related administration and technical expertise for greening arid zone under an agreement with the KOICA on providing technical support for forestry development project in Myanmar in the next two years.
According to the KOICA, a total of 104 Korean volunteers have been sent to Myanmar since 1997, while a total of 1,000 Myanmar state employees went to Korea for the training since 1991.
As part of the two countries' cooperation in the technological development in the irrigation sector, the KOICA is also building an irrigation-related laboratory center in country's second largest of Mandalay, earlier report said.
The KOICA has been stationed in Myanmar since 1991 providing the technical expertise and equipment needed for social service organizations as well as training in related fields.
Dealing with the education sector, the South Korean government is offering more scholarships for Myanmar pre-university students to study Korean language in Korean university for three years and students winning the scholarships could benefit from studying at the National Institute for International Education (NIED) in South Korea's capital city of Seoul.
