The ISTVS Board of Directors meeting held at Blacksburg, Virginia, on September 18, 2011 has decided to hold the next International ISTVS Conference at Seoul Korea in 2014. It will be the 18th ISTVS International Conference and the second time to have the ISTVS conference at Seoul. The first one was the 5th Asian and Pacific Regional Conference held in 1998. Prof. Kyeong Uk Kim of Seoul National University, Conference Chairman, said conference preparation will be started from the next year and the conference website will be open sometime in October 2012.