Mayor of Pohang Lee Kang-deok visited Japan to participate in the 25th Conference of Major Cities in the East Sea Rim Region, which was held in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture. During his visit, he met with Oleg Gumyenyuk, Mayor of Vladivostok, a sister-city affiliation on October 28 and held intensive discussions on exchange friendship and economic cooperative measures. Mayor Lee Kang-deok and Mayor Oleg Gumyenyuk decided to expand friendship exchanges to create active interchange in various fields such as economy • culture • art beginning with a private exchange between two cities with a trial run of an international cruise connecting Pohang and Vladivosk, scheduled for December. In addition, they reaffirmed they would be supportive for the further expansion and revitalization of joint research undertaken by POSTECH, Far Eastern Federal University, Pohang Technopark, and Russky Technopark with which they recently signed and MOU.