Vision

Creative leader in technology responding to post-national project and water security

Main business

Development of key techniques for realizing K-Water's integrated water management (IWRM)

• - Techniques for responding to water security and the latest investigation for constructing the foundation of integrated water management
• - Techniques for managing future water resources and water environment responding to climate change

Development of foundation techniques for responding to algal bloom anticipatorily

• - Techniques for connected operation of dam, barrage, and reservoir preparing against water quality and algal bloom
• - Techniques for utilizing algal bloom and high-efficiency device for removing algal bloom

Development of cutting-edge ICT-based future water management techniques

• - Techniques for managing and providing big data and land observation sensor-based water information
• - ICT-based techniques for managing and monitoring water resources

Technology for reducing effects to ecological environment and restoring damaged ecosystem

• - Techniques for constructing alternative habitat and plan of reducing environmental effect according to development
• - Techniques for restoring aquatic ecology at dam and constructing ecological network in Water-friendly city

Operational direction

About the department

Water Resources Research Center, composed of experts in various water-related major fields (sluice, hydraulics, water quality, aquatic ecology), takes the lead in the development of key techniques for future water management through integrated water management (IWRM), anticipatory response to algal bloom, cutting-edge ICT-based techniques, and multidisciplinary researches on water resources and environment fields.

The institute consists of 30 researchers with doctor's degree and 18 with master's degree and major filed is composed of experts in various areas including sluice, hydraulics, ecology, water quality, and oceanography.

There are three research teams (IWRM research team, ecology and sluice research team, and water information research team), blending major fields in each main business, and, for development of various water-related researches, they are divided into future-leading research and current issue-solving research and aim to develop basic and key techniques and secure practical techniques

It has nine key and practical techniques in various fields from observation and investigation of water resources to hydraulics, sluice, water quality, and ecology and continues to make efforts to secure key techniques as well as practical techniques to support business.

Key technique 1

High-efficiency algal bloom-removal equipment movable on water (K-Water combine for green algae on water)

Selective collection of green algae with movable algal bloom-removal equipment after collecting and floating green algae with the use of algae remover

Key technique 1

Application and practical use of low impact development(LID) technique

Traditional rainwater management

LID water circulation management

Key technique 3

Distributed watershed runoff-analysis model

Physical distributed watershed runoff model in
lattice unit for analyzing watershed runoff, silt,
and water quality

K-DRUM system diagram

System for analyzing the frequency of stream
flow and precipitation

Integrated program for analyzing the frequency of flood and
drought of stream flow and precipitation and for preprocessing
with the use of hydrologic data

K-FAT applied screen

Key technique 4

Development of hydraulic sluice, environmental observation method, and equipment

Small river hydrometer for multiple water levels

Electromagnetic wave water surface velocity meter for normal and dry season(general purpose)

Measurement of average travel time
by stream flow (Four Major River)

Development of monitoring device
for each water level of river

Equipment for measuring the amount of
sediment created in reservoir

Key technique 5

Technique for restoring aquatic ecology of dam

Technique of floating swamp providing multiple organisms with habitat space where water plants, aquatic insects, fish, and otters coexist Technique which can protect spawn of fish in and floating on the reservoir from predators

The whole view of floating swamp in Soyang Dam

The whole view of floating facility installed for protecting fish