The minister of unification Yongpyo Hong participated in "World Leaders’ Conservation Forum 2015" held in Jeju Island in the 8th to spread international societies’ the participation and support about DMZ World Eco-Peace Park.

Hong discussed conservation and peace-building of border by opening a meeting "Leaders’ Dialogues", the second day event of "World Leaders’ Conservation Forum 2015." He requested the international society to work actively for DMZ World Eco-Peace Park. He planned to discuss about the cooperation with international society through individual meeting with representative of international organizations such as IUCN, I.Andersen, C.Briggs. 

Participants of Leaders’ Dialogue:

• Won Hee-ryong (Governor, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province)
• Inger Andersen (Director General, IUCN)
• Christopher Briggs (Secretary General, Ramsar Convention Secretariat)
• Yvo de Boer (Director General, GGGI)
• Kelly Bricker (Chair, The International Ecotourism Society)
• Masahiko Horie (Ambassador for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan)
• Jae C. CHOE (President, National Institute of Ecology, RoK)

Also, Hong discussed about mutual interest with Won Hee-ryong (Governor, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province) and Sukmon Lee superintendent of education during this period of visit to Jeju.

With the governor Won and the ministry of unification, Hong talked about cooperation of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province. With the superintendent Lee, he would exchange the opinion about reinforcing education of unification and future- oriented unification lessons.