■ The Institute for Basic Science (IBS) said it will hold the IBS Conference in October, featuring world-renowned scholars in neuroscience and cosmic dark matter. The IBS neural and glial function conference will be held on the 23rd-24th at the main auditorium of the School of Medicine at Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Gyeonggi. The IBS dark world exploration conference will take place on the 27th-30th at the IBS Science Culture Center in Daejeon. IBS President Noh Do-young said, "These fields are shared grand challenges for humanity and especially require international cooperation," adding, "We hope this will serve as an opportunity to enhance knowledge exchange in the scientific communities at home and abroad and to promote international joint research."
■ The University of Science and Technology (UST) said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at 11 a.m. on the 21st at the university headquarters' Science Hall with Korea Science & Technology Holdings (KST) to promote student startups based on national research institute technologies and foster entrepreneurial talent. The two sides agreed to cooperate on joint discovery of outstanding technologies at universities and government-funded research institutes and linking them to commercialization, designing curricula and programs to discover and nurture entrepreneurial talent, supporting personnel and networking related to startups and technology commercialization, and investment cooperation and business linkages to scale up technology-based startup corporations.
■ The Ministry of Science and ICT will hold the APEC Quantum Science and Technology Forum on the 22nd at the Kimdaejung Convention Center in Gwangju, leveraging the hosting of APEC 2025. The forum is linked to the fall meeting hosted by the Korean Physical Society and APEC, with speakers from 10 APEC member economies—Korea, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, Austria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and Peru—and more than 2,000 scientists from home and abroad participating. They will discuss the current status and outlook of quantum technology, and networks among researchers in the APEC region are expected to be strengthened.
■ The Korea AeroSpace Administration will hold the Space and Aviation Career Exploration Seminar and Talk Concert at 3 p.m. on the 22nd at the main auditorium of Sacheon Municipal Library as a community-focused space and aviation culture education program. Kwon Hyun-joon, director general of space and aviation policy at the agency, will introduce Korea's journey in launch vehicle development and its future space development vision, and a Nuri launch vehicle researcher will share firsthand experiences from actual Nuri development. Anyone can apply to participate through online pre-registration (https://naver.me/FpPwwPlO).
■ The Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) said it will hold the Korea-Sri Lanka joint symposium on the 23rd at the Lavalse Hotel in Yeongdo-gu, Busan, to strengthen capabilities in the marine data field. The symposium, under the theme "Strengthening Korea-Sri Lanka marine data science capacity: data sharing and joint research," is designed to share KIOST's accumulated marine digital technologies and application cases and to explore ways for joint analysis of marine data and field application between the two countries. After the opening ceremony, expert presentations and discussions will follow.
■ The Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) said it is holding the "GIST main gate, find my name" NAMING. event to select a name for its newly built main gate. The participation period runs until 6 p.m. on the 31st, and submissions will be evaluated based on symbolism, suitability, creativity and popularity, with the final selection to be announced on Nov. 11 via the GIST website and other channels. Vice President for External Affairs Jeong Yong-hwa said, "We hope this event will provide an opportunity to share GIST's spirit and vision with the public."
■ The Korea AeroSpace Administration said it was officially invited to and participated in Czech Space Week 2025, held in Prague, Czech Republic, from the 20th to the 24th. On the first day, the 20th, the agency presented Korea's space and aviation policy direction and industry development vision and discussed cooperation plans with the Czech Ministry of Transport and major European space agencies. On the 22nd-23rd, together with our corporations, it will visit local research institutes and space corporations in the Czech Republic during the event and hold a meeting with Korea's space corporations to seek to expand the foundation for technological exchanges and industrial cooperation between the two countries.
■ Boryung said on the 21st it concluded the finals of the 2nd Humans In Space Youth (Humans In Space Youth) competition on the 18th at the Yonsei University Institute for Future Learning. HISYouth is an education program aimed at fostering future generations of space life science talent. Under the theme "Human life in space," the finals featured 30 elementary school teams and 11 middle and high school teams that advanced through nationwide preliminaries. Winners will be given the opportunity in November to visit major space-related institutions and corporations in the United States, and the winning elementary school entry will be transmitted to the International Space Station (ISS) and introduced by an astronaut.