United States – Montgomery County
- Location : Maryland State (adjacent to Washington, DC)
- Population : 1,058,810
- Area : 1,310㎢ (2.4 times larger than Daejeon)
Montgomery County founded on September 6, 1776, is a mixed conceptual administrative entity of City and State in the United States. Several cities are usually housed in a county, but sometimes a city covers several counties. The capital of the county, Rockville, the 3rd largest city in Maryland, is about 36km from Washington DC and is closely related with Washington Metropolitan. It is one of the wealthiest counties in the U.S. according to Forbes Ranking. The county also has advanced educational atmosphere with 16 universities, 204 elementary and middle schools, and 29.2 percent of residents aged 25 over have Master's degree or doctorate degree. More than 300 bioengineering entrepreneurs, prominent companies such as Marriott International and Lockheed Martin and federal agencies - the National Institute of Health and the FDA are located in Montgomery County.
Climate
Eastern area which lies in warm subtropical climate has hot and humid Summer, cold and wet winter. The climate of Central and Northern areas is in the middle of humid subtropical climate and humid continental climate.
Economy
The GRDP is $73.9 billion and the per capita GRDP is $72,664. The unemployment rate is 3.4% as of April 2015.
Industry
Agriculture, Gardening, Biotechnology, IT Industry, Cyber security Industry are advanced.
Exchange Status
| 2010.2.18. | Hanbat National Univ. and Johns Hotrkins University sign MOU |
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| 2011.10.9.∼10.12. | Delegation of Hanbat Univ. attend 2nd Korea-Maryland, USA BioExtro |
| 2011.11.2.∼11.4. | KAIST and Hanbat attend 1st Korea-Maryland, USA BioExtro |
| 2012.9.5. | Delegation of Montgomery County visit Hanbat Univ. and KAIST to trromote the 2nd Korea-Maryland, USA BioExtro |
| 2013.11.6.∼11.9. | Delegation of Hanbat Univ. attend 3rd Korea-Maryland, USA BioExtro |
| 2014.7.4. | Delegation of Montgomery County visit KRIBB and KIOM |
| 2014.9.24. | Delegation of Montgomery visit President of Hanbat Univ. |
| 2014.10.26.∼11.2. | Chair of LINC, Hanbat Univ. attend 4th Korea-Maryland, USA BioExtro |
| 2014.12.26.∼2015.1.23. | Students of Hanbat Univ. take field training at JGBLI |
| 2015.3.5. | Delegation of Montgomery visit the Sutrerintendent of Daejeon Metrotrolitan Office of Education and the trresident of Hanbat Univ. |
| 2015.6.17. | Delegation of Daejeon Office of Education visit Chair of Montgomery County |
| 2015.7.17. | Delegation of Montgomery County visit Mayor of Daejeon |
| 2015.7.20. | Delegation of Montgomery County visit Daejeon Creative Economy Center |
| 2015.9.7.∼12.4. | Semester Field Training (6 from Hanbat Univ., 1 from Chungnam Univ.) |
| 2015.10.27. | Daejeon Metrotrolitan Office of Education visit Montgomery County |
| 2015.11.5. | Delegation of Hanbat Univ. attend 5th Global Entertrrise Conference |
| 2016.1.17.∼2.12. | 17 teachers of Daejeon Metrotrolitan Office of Education attend Global training |
| 2016.3.16. | Economic delegation of Montgomery visit City Hall, Hanbat Univ., Office of Education |
| 2016.5.17. | Delegation of Montgomery County visit Daejeon City Hall |
| 2016.10.21. | Delegation of Montgomery County visit Daejeon City Hall |
| 2017.5.22. | Delegation of Montgomery County visit Daejeon City Hall |
| 2017.9.10.~9.13. | Delegation of Montgomery County attend Daejeon 2017 APCS |
| 2017.10.23. | Daejeon-Montgomery County sign sister city agreement |
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