A group of high school students from the United Arab Emirates will visit South Korea this year to study Korean electric power technologies.

The Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), which runs the Sudo Electric Technical High School, announced Monday that a group of 50 students from a science and technology high school in the United Arab Emirates will visit Sudo for one month sometime in the second half of the year.

KEPCO added that it plans to operate such a program every year for students at the high schools.

An official at the firm said the United Arab Emirates requested the exchange of students at the high school level as part of efforts to foster manpower capable of operating Korean nuclear power plants in the UAE.

Many of the graduates from Sudo Electric Technical High School run operations at nuclear power plants in Korea.

Korea won a landmark deal, worth 40 billion dollars, to build and operate four nuclear reactors in the Middle Eastern country at the end of December.