The Secretariat Delegates led by Director General Park Chag-ho of Planning and General Affairs Division visited ICLEI Korean office, located in Suwon on January 22. The visit was to benchmark the case of membership fee system of ICLEI. The delegates talked over the matter regarding ICLEI management with representatives, including Manager Park Yeon-hee of the ICLEI Korean office for over two hours and ICLEI introduced its organization. In addition, they discussed cooperation plan between ICLEI and NEAR in the future. ICLEI is an international organization, joined by more than 1000 regional governments of 84 countries and works for strengthening regional government’s policies and practical competence for sustainable development. ICLEI World Secretariat is located in Bonn, Germany, and Northeast Asian Secretariat which held opening ceremony in October 2012, is located in Seoul taking charge of six cities, including Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, Mongolia, and North Korea. The Korean office, launched by Suwon City in 2012, held opening ceremony in October.