Exchanging information on drought management in the U.S. and in South Korea were, from left, Mark Svoboda, leader of the NDMC’s Monitoring program area; Won-Ho Nam, NDMC post-doctoral researcher; Chang-Jo Oh, director of the Korea Rural Community and Corporation: Water Resources Operation Office, Water Management Center; Mike Hayes, director of the National Drought Mitigation Center; Hong-Sang Kim, research director of the Korea Rural Economic Institute; Kyung-Sook Choi, professor at Kyungpook National University, Department of Agricultural Civil Engineering;  Bo-Sung Koh, CEO of SURI Engineering & Consulting, Inc.; and Kwang-Ya Lee, Drought Action Plan Task Force, Korea Rural Community and Corporation.

The National Drought Mitigation Center and the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln welcomed a delegation from South Korea Aug. 27-28. The visitors came to learn about managing for mid- and short-term droughts. Won-Ho Nam, an NDMC post-doctoral researcher who helped organize their visit, said they were particularly interested in how state and local governments, water management organizations, stakeholders and farmers can mitigate drought; working with farmers during drought; inter-departmental and inter-agency cooperation; and public outreach and education related to drought.

South Korea delegation learns about drought (unl.edu)