PRT PLANNING IN KOREA

In 1994 the Woo-Bo Engineering Company commenced planning for the introduction of PRT into Korea. The basic concept of PRT had been known to a few professional engineers in Korea as an academic topic, but nothing had been done to bring this to the attention of government, industry or the wider public. In the past 2 years considerable progress has been made in the dissemination of knowledge about PRT to both government and industry, but much more remains to be done, and the wider public still has to be informed about the PRT system before one can say that the concept is familiar to many. This article gives an overall picture of the relevance of PRT for Korea and the opportunities inherent in all of the developing Asian countries for the marketing of PRT.