KISTI has hosted "1st Joint Workshop for collaboration between KISTI and IPNS/KEK" on July 17 at its head office located in Daejeon.

The workshop has been organized in cooperation with KEK, which is a high-energy physics research organization in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

This workshop aimed to lay the foundation for an active information exchanges to promote joint research on electron-positron colliding-beam accelerator. The event began with a talk between Trustee of KEK, Dr. Fumihiko Takasaki, and President of KISTI, Dr. Park Young-seo, and proceded with the participants' presentations and discussions on the current state of each organization and future collaboration such as plans for promoting the exchange of technology between KISTI and KEK.