1. Korean Effort to Ensure Biosafety
Ho-Min, Jang
K R I B B

2. BEYOND THE LIMITS :
Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
- Donella H. Meadows, et, 1992

3. Biotechnology Applications for Sustainable Development
Fields
Application by Biotech
Related World
Organizations
Environment
Threaten the Earth
- Perseveration of the Earth &
Biodiversity
- Contribution to making a clean
environment
UN, CBD, WTO,
OECD, ISO
Increase in Pollution
- Development of bioprocesses and
environmental sound industrial
processes
- Improvement of the environment
Resource &
Energy
Decrease in
resource
and energy
- Development of alternative energy
- Development of resource recycling
technologies
- Development of desulfurized
petroleum
UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change
Health & Welfare
Fatal disease
- Treatment of fatal diseases
- Reduce the negative effects of aging
WHO
Agriculture &
Food
Food shortage
- Increasing Food Product from LMOs
Biosafety Protocol

4. A. Wilkinson(`83)
Source : A. Wilkinson, The Technology- An Increasingly Dominant
Factor in Corporate Strategy, R&D Management, 1983

5. Biotechnology and Biosafety
 The best alternative to the global crisis
- However, bring with the problem or biosafety or bioethics.
<Biosafety>
 Possible hazards to the environment and human health
- The foremost sector is plants

6. Production of GM Plants in the US
(Unit : %)
29.3
26.2
11.1
10.5 id
Herbicide-tolerant
cotton
19.4
18.4
3.9
4.3
3.1
3.0
corn
23.5
16.8
18.3
15.0
19.0
14.6
Bt cotton
44.8
44.2
17.5
17.0
7.2
7.4
soybeans
Acre
1996
Product
1998
1997
20.7
7.8
1.5
19.1
7.6
1.4
Bt corn
Technology

7. Production of GM Plants by Monsanto
(Unit: Thousand acre)
Biotechnology Crops
USA
Canada
Mexico
Aust.
China
S.Afr.
Argentina
Roundup Ready Soybeans
25,000
100
2.5
Bollgard/Ingard Cotton (Bt)
200
130 30 20
Roundup Ready Cotton
950
BXN Cotton
(herbicide-resistant)
1,000
Bollgard/RR Cotton Stacked
Gene 2
Roundup Ready Corn
YieldGard Corn(Bt)
11,000
300 42
Roundup Ready Canola
2,000
Laurate Canola
(oil modification) 50
NewLeaf Potatoes (Bt) 10
39,000
2,410
104.5 62
Source : Monsanto Today Newsletter, 23 February 1999

8. GM Plants imported by Korea in 1998 from the USA (estimated)
LMOs ratio
In the USA
Imported LMOs
M/T(B)
B/A
Soybeans
Total import(A)
1.413
43.0%
USA
1.357
44.8%
0.607
Corn
7.119
23.8%
4.222
40.1%
1.693

9. The Korean government's concern in Biosafety
 To ensure the protection or human health and the
environment
 To establish rigorous procedures, reflecting the
precautionary nature and openess
- Ministry of Science and Technology
- Ministry of Health and Welfare
- Ministry of Environment
- Ministry of Commerce Industry and Energy
 To label on GM Products

10. Biosafety Protocol and It’s Operational Framework
Implementation of the
Protocol’s Obligations
(Article 2)
Taking legal, administrative measures
Technic development
• Risk Assessment(Article 12),
• Risk Management(Article 13)
• BCH (Article 17): LMOs trade statistics
and information sharing
• Public Awareness and Participation
(Article 20)
• Reporting(Article 32)
• Development of Human Resources
• National management of
LMOs trade
• Promotion of LMOs industry
Strengthening of Capacity
Building(Article 2)

11. MOCIE’s project for the Biosafety Protocol
Chief Director
KRIBB
Ho-Min, Jang
Experts Pool
Biosafety Web Site,
LMOs D/B
Holding a seminary
Publishing
Advertising and Education
”LMOs Safety Management
and Trade Procedure Law”
Study on the relation
between Protocol and WTO
National Implementation
System
Protocol Implementation
• BCH
• LMOs trade and safety
management mechanism
Int’l cooperation
A group of Evaluation

12. Conclusion
 The first concern in regulation biotechnology is to ensure the
protection of human health and the environment
The regulatory system should not place unnecessary burden
on the industry or barriers to its development
 A system that provides sound advice and proportionate
regulation and has the flexibility to respond to the fast moving
development in the technology and to public concerns

13.  Suggestion to the cooperation between the Asian
countries and Korea