The Jang Bogo Station in Terra Nova Bay

Terra Nova Bay

Terra Nova Bay is a bay which is often ice free, about long, lying between Cape Washington and the Drygalski Ice Tongue along the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica....

 in the Antarctic is a proposed South Korean research station to be built in 2012. The base will house 15 people in winter and 60 in summer in a 4000 square metre building with three wings, and will be among the larger permanent bases in Antarctica.

The base, to be named Jang Bogo

Jang Bogo

Jang Bogo , also known as Gungbok, rose to prominence in Korea in the late Unified Silla period as a powerful maritime figure who for several decades effectively controlled the West Sea and Korean coast between southwestern Korea and China's Shandong peninsula...

 after an eighth-century maritime ruler of Korea will be in the Ross Dependency

Ross Dependency

The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south...

 and near the Italian Zucchelli Station

Zucchelli Station

Zucchelli Station is an Italian research station located at Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica and named for Mario Zucchelli, late director of the Italian Antarctic Program. This facility is operated during the summer months and hosts a variety of scientific projects...

. It is to be built by Hyundai Engineering and Construction

Hyundai Engineering and Construction

Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co., Ltd. is a major construction company in South Korea which has carried out projects not only in Korea but around the world. The company was founded by Chung Ju-yung in 1947 as the Hyundai Civil Works Company, and was a major component of the Hyundai Group...

, with material shipped from Busan

Busan

Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...

 to Lyttelton

Lyttelton, New Zealand

Lyttelton is a port town on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour close to Banks Peninsula, a suburb of Christchurch on the eastern coast of the South Island of New Zealand....

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 for transfer to the new Korean icebreaker, the RS Araon. There is no airport or runway at Terra Nova Bay.