Kwun Sook-Il

President, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea

Date of Birth

• July 29, 1935

Career

11954 - 60

Seoul National University(B.S. and M.S.) (Department of Physics)

1961 - 65

University of Utah (U. S. A.) (Ph. D.) (Department of Physics)

1965 - 66

Research Associate, Univ. of Chicago (U. S. A.) (Department of Physics)

1966 - 2000

Assistant, Associate and Professor, Seoul National University (Department of Physics)

1973 - 74

Visiting Professor, CNRS in Paris, France

1978 - 79

Visiting Professor, University of Southern California

1989 - 91

Dean of Research Affairs, Seoul National University

1991 - 93

Dean, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University

1992 - 97

Chairman, Korea-Japan Joint Committee for Basic Science Research, KOSEF

1995 - 97

President, Korean Physical Society

1996 - 97

Vice President, Korea Federation of Science and Technology Society

1997 - 98

Minister, Ministry of Science and Technology

2012 - 2014

Vice President, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea

2000 - present

Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University (Department of Physics)

2002 - present

Chair Professor, Myongji University (Department of Physics)

2002 - present

Member, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea

2014 - present

President, National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea

Award

1995

Daesan Literary Prize

2001

Order of Silver Cultural Merit

2002

Inchon Prize for Literature

2006

The National Academy of Arts Prize

2007

Manhae Prize for Liberal Arts

Publication

1995

The Collected Critical Essays of Yu Jongho (five volumes)

2001

In Search of Poetical Truth

2002

Rereading Korean Poets

2004

Before and After the Liberation

2009

That Winter and the Fall

2011

A Foreign Country Called the Past, A History of Modern Korean Poetry