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After almost two years of preparations, the POGO exhibit at Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea was opened to the public on 12 May 2012, along with the many other exhibits featured in the 23 pavilions that occupy the imposing 25-hectare Expo site.
The theme of the 2012 International Expo, “the Living Ocean and Coast”, sparked POGO’s interest back in January 2010 when the Expo was first brought up by scientists of the then Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, KORDI (now Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, KIOST), during the 12th POGO Annual Meeting. Read more…