PM calls for ways to prevent overseas transfer of meteorites
Social affairsMar 18, 2014
Prime Minister Chung Hong-won instructed officials Tuesday to devise ways to prevent recently discovered meteorites from being taken out of the country to better preserve them for research purposes, his office said.His order came after the Korean Polar Research Institute confirmed earlier this week that two pieces of rock found last week some two days after a meteor shower in Jinju, some 434 kilometers south of Seoul, had come from space."As meteorites are precious materials for space research,