Former Prime Minister Goh Kun will be among seven South Koreans visiting North Korea to attend an international conference at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST). 
 
The group, which also includes academics such as Soongsil University President Hahn Hern-soo, will fly to the North on Monday via Beijing.
 
It is known that they will meet high-ranking North Korean officials on the sidelines of the international conference that will run through October 26.
 
Goh, who now heads the Green Asia Organization (GAO), a Seoul-based non-governmental organization, will likely discuss with North Korean officials about how the South can help with forestation in the North.
 
Han reportedly plans to exchange opinions with North Koreans about reviving Pyongyang Soongsil University, the predecessor of Soongsil University in Seoul.
 
The university in Pyongyang closed its doors in 1938 in protest of Japanese that forced Koreans to salute shrines that house Japanese gods. The South Korean school inheriting its spirit was inaugurated in Seoul in 1954, a year after the end of the Korean War. 
 
The Ministry of Unification, which granted their visit to the North, reiterated the South Korean government’s stance that it will allow most inter-Korean exchange programs aimed at recovering the unity of the two Koreas, whether they are academic, sports or cultural events.