The second biggest city in South Korea, Busan, invited a representative of the Hansa to speak at their World Ocean Forum last week. Their intention with the Forum is to make it a leading international forum for maritime matters with Davos and its economic forum as a good example. The World Ocean Forum was organised for the second time and assembled around 300 participants from Korea, USA, Great Britain, Japan, China, Denmark and Finland. They wanted this year to stress also the values of cultural heritage as important ingredient in international relations and had therefore chosen the Hansa as evidence on that. next