This session is designed to enhance regional development and foster friendship through exchange and cooperation between the cities and islands that have built peace parks in the Pacific Rim. The possible establishment of a “City Summit for Pacific Rim Parks” will build a cultural bridge among the cities and will lay a new foundation for a “Pacific Rim Community” that contributes to forming a brand new network of cooperation.

- Chair
KO, Seong Joon (Professor & Director, Institute For Peace Studies, Jeju National University)

- Keynote Speech
Kathleen STEPHENS (former Ambassador, U.S. Embassy in Seoul)

- Speakers
James HUBBELL (Executive President, Pacific Rim Park Organization)
Loboda KONSTANTIN (Vice Mayor, Vladivostok City, Russia)
Lou SMITH (Chairman, Board of Port Commissioners, San Diego, USA)
ZHAO, Xiangdong (Division Chief for Europe, America, and Oceania Affairs, Yantai Foreign Affairs Office, China)
David NAVARRO HERRERA (Secretary of Urban Development, Tijuana City, Mexico)
Jovenee SAGUN (City Planning and Development Project Officer, Puerto Princesa)

- Rapporteur
PARK, Ji Young (Administrative Assistant, Art & Design Institute of Hongik University)