Abstract
Technological level of East Asian Countries is still low compared with that in industrialized countries. Backwardness, however, implies advantages and great potential for learning from the experiences stored in other countries.In this sense, East Asian countries have great opportunities for achieving economic growth while restraining the increase of energy consumption by using appropriate technologies. This study makes a brief review of the possibilities particularly for China and South Korea to achieve sustainable development objectives by introducing advanced technologies available in industrialized countries like Japan.In addition to technologies, proper intervention by government is necessary to guide environmentally sound business activities. Intervention could be done either by laws and regulations, economic instruments, or dissemination of relevant information. It can be pointed out that the cooperation with Japan would be especially important, in view of their geographical location in East Asia.
