Professor Wooik Choi, a professor at the institute and director of the Polar Research Center, received an order for the ‘Establishment and Utilization of Korean Arctic Information Map Interface (3rd Year)’ project from the Polar Research Institute under the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology in October 2023. The purpose of this project is to establish an integrated Arctic information system to continuously monitor and analyze changes in the Arctic environment and ecosystem due to global climate change and overall changes in economic and social conditions resulting from this. This project is a project to 'build a Korean-style Arctic information map to visualize and provide population, industry, and economic information for each Arctic region' as part of the 'Expansion of functions to strengthen industry-academia-research capabilities' within the 1st Polar Activity Promotion Basic Plan of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (2022). It is linked to.

Professor Wooik Choi has also received an order for the ‘second year’ project of this project in 2022. Pyo Sang-yong, director of the Russian Institute, said, “It is an important responsibility of today’s university research institutes for the Polar Research Center, which was opened for the purpose of strengthening Arctic research among the Russian research institute’s research in the Russian region, to continue to carry out practical and convergent research in line with national policy. “With winning this project, our lab will actively participate in not only theoretical and academic research, but also projects in related fields from a practical perspective,” he emphasized.