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A Base for Nurturing Global Maritime Talent— Holding the 12th Yeosu Maritime Law Academy

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A Base for Nurturing Global Maritime Talent—
Holding the 12th Yeosu Maritime Law Academy
- 33 people from 24 countries to participate in the program to be held for 2 weeks from October 20 to 31, strengthening the capacity of maritime officials in developing countries since 2014


  The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF; Minister Chun Jae-soo) and the Korea Maritime Institute (KMI; President Cho Jung-hee) announced that they would be holding the 12th Yeosu Maritime Law Academy (YMLA) at the Youth Maritime Education Center in Yeosu from Monday, October 20 to Friday, October 31.

  YMLA was launched as an international training program to support the strengthening of maritime policy capacity in developing countries in commemoration of the successful hosting of the Yeosu World Expo and in response to requests from the international community. The program has trained 444 people from 85 countries since 2014, having been recognized as a leading example of strengthening maritime capacity in developing countries in an official report to the United Nations General Assembly; thus raising its international status.

  This year, 33 trainees including maritime public officials from 24 countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines are participating in YMLA. The faculty includes President Thomas Heidar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and 11 world-renowned maritime law scholars and experts including Judge Rhee Zha-hyoung, Arbitration Court Judge Paik Jin-hyeon, and professors from Seoul National University, Australian National University, and University of Copenhagen.

  In the two-week program, the trainees will listen to ▲the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea including territorial waters, exclusive economic zones, and continental shelves and ▲lecture and case analyses regarding maritime issues such as climate change, marine spatial planning, and marine boundary delimitation and participate in ▲workshops and in-depth discussions.

  “Graduates of YMLA play pivotal roles in government ministries and departments in various countries, and they are also valuable diplomatic assets for us. YMLA has served as a cradle for training maritime experts in developing countries, and we expect it to contribute as well to solving maritime issues facing the international community,” said Kim Myeong-jin, Director of Marine Policy at MOF. 
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