The opening ceremony of the National Center for Agro-Meteorology (NCAM) took place at Seoul National University on 12 November in 2009. The four related organizations, Korea Meteorological Administration, Rural Development Administration, Korea Forest Service, and Seoul National University, cooperated to found the NCAM to support national food security and advancement of agricultural and forestry services to end-users at national and global levels.

The NCAM will support the sustainable eco-system management of agriculture and forestry as well as the mitigation of natural disaster exploring the efficient usage of meteorological and climate information as natural resources. It also will provide confronting services to the current global climate change and hopefully lay a foundation for Green Growth.

The NCAM has missions which are to establish the agro-meteorological service system of world level and to accomplish its role as the WMO hub center sharing agro-meteorological information and the international training center. The center will contribute to the nation by integrating the existing agro-meteorological services performed by the individual organizations with higher synergy effect, which will lead to the high value-added information services to the public in the future.