The Nagasaki Prefectural Council for the Promotion of the Japan-Korea Tunnel hosted a two-day forum on November 15th and 16th, welcoming 10 Korean academics and media figures to Tsushima. Related experts and local Tsushima experts also participated. The forum, held at the Tsushima Exchange Center, featured lectures by two speakers from Japan and two from Korea on the theme of "Looking at Japan-Korea Friendship, History, and the Future." Our foundation's Chairman, Hirofumi Sato, also gave a lecture titled "The International Highway/Japan-Korea Tunnel Project and Tsushima." The 50 participants engaged in lively discussions about the new concept of Tsushima as a central link between Japan and Korea.
In his speech, Chairman Sato summarized the Japan-Korea undersea tunnel as a symbol of future-oriented cooperative relations, and said it has the significance of being a "21st century Korean envoy," and pointed out the importance of Tsushima as its center, proposing a direction called a "Tsushima shift."
Also on the 16th, some people visited the site of the Japan-Korea Tunnel Aren Incline Shaft, which is currently under construction on the west coast of Tsushima, and spoke of the excitement it felt like at a power spot, saying, "It is here on Tsushima, at this very site, that we can truly feel a new era for Japan and Korea and world peace."
[Speaker by Hirofumi Sato, Chairman of the Foundation: The Japan-Korea Undersea Tunnel is the Korean Envoy of the 21st Century]
[The entrance to the Aren Incline Shaft in Tsushima, where Japanese and Korean experts were impressed by the new future that Japan and Korea could realize]
