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PKO Center is in charge of providing pre-deployment education to key cadres of
deployed units and individually deployed personnel. It has been advancing the PKO
education system through exchanges and cooperation with the UN’s Department of
Peace Operations (DPO), the UN Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the
PKO centers of other countries, the Korea National Policy University UNPKO
training programs, and other relevant organizations at home and abroad. When the
deployed units or individually deployed personnel complete their missions, the PKO
Center publishes and distributes the units’ booklet on the outcomes of the
deployment and the individual agents’ mission reports to relevant offices. In
November 2013, the PKO Center received an education certificate for its UN Staff
Course from the UN DPO, and was re-certified in November 2018. The center is
currently pursuing to have the UN Observer Course certified by the UN.

[Chart 6-13] Number of Personnel Trained in the PKO Center
(As of 2020)
Multinational Forces’ Peace Defense Exchanges and
Total UN PKO
Operations Cooperation Activities
1,657 1,066 in 8 courses 38 in 5 courses 553 in 2 courses

The PKO Center has been gradually expanding its functions and roles to
systematically support research, education, and training for peacekeeping operations.
In 2017, the PKO Center carried out training for instructors which was attended by
the UN and 12 countries in collaboration with the UN̕s Integrated Training Service

(ITS). In May 2018, the center hosted the annual conference of the Association of
Asia-Pacific Peacekeeping Training Center (AAPTC). In November 2019, the
76)
PKO Center supported the MND-hosted UN Senior Mission Leaders’ Course and
contributed to the success of the course. By offering the course–which is a core
UN education program for cultivating candidates for high-ranking UN positions–
76) for the first time, it is expected to diversify the ROK’s contribution to peacekeeping
The annual conference of
the AAPTC was launched operations and help ROK officers advance to high-ranking positions in the UN.
in 2010, and in the 9th
conference held in the Furthermore, in accordance with the ROK’s pledge to hold UN’s education programs
ROK in 2018, the chief of
staff of the UN Department in the ROK from 2020 to 2024 made at the 3rd Peacekeeping Ministerial Conference
of Peacekeeping
Operation and around 70 in 2019, the PKO Center plans to offer UN’s PKO courses once a year and will be
representatives from 20
member states participated reviewing various factors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to decide when and
and discussed the direction
of PKO development. how the courses will be offered.

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