South Korea and Chile have agreed to work together to boost bilateral cooperation in space sciences.
 
The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning in Seoul said the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute and Chile's National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Wednesday.
 
Under the deal, the two agencies will support future business opportunities and research, while jointly operating postdoctoral programs and graduate school courses.
 
Chile is particularly well-suited for astronomical observation as it has many alpine regions located far from urban areas.
 
Currently, South Korea is taking part in the “Giant Magellan Telescope” project which aims to build a large ground-based telescope by 2020. South Korea is also participating in research related to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which is an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.