Research

BK21

VISION

We pursue progress through academic partnership to create value for our clients and contribute to human society.

MISSION
  • Enhancing research capacity in environmental fields
    and fostering the next generation of scholars
  • Reorganizing the Graduate School of Environment
    and strengthening the quality of education
  • Becoming a world-leading, top-20 graduate school in environmental studies
  • Strengthening research competitiveness
    • Expanding qualitative evaluation of research outcomes
    • Supporting contributions of research results to economic, social, and cultural sectors
  • Training master’s and doctoral-level researchers
    • Expanding support for master's and doctoral students
    • Increasing research scholarships to help students focus on study and research
  • Enhancing the quality of graduate education and research
    • Strengthening academic management and quality assurance
    • Introducing new innovation support funds to improve graduate school structure
  • Cultivating research talent to meet national and societal needs
    • Launching new programs for nurturing innovative talent
    • Fostering research professionals in key national industrial sectors
Implementation Details
  • Stable Environment
    Complex environmental issues in densely populated areas
    • Rapid and widespread environmental disasters
    • Transboundary issues in water quality / waste / air / ecology / climate
    Need for real-time and proactive response
    • Regulation-focused response
    • Lack of environmental technology domain knowledge
  • Building a Stable Environment for the 4th Industrial & Social Era
  • 4th Industrial & Social Era
    The advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution
    • Big Data
    • Cloud Computing
    • Machine Learning
    • IoT
    Need for real-time and proactive response
    • Bottom-up approach
    • Demand-driven education and research
  • Education & Research Group
    Core Talent Development
    • Convergence Technology Education
    • Engineering Education
    • Science Education
  • Feed Back
    Provision of core human resourcesSupport for fundamental technologiesOn-site trainingIndustry feedback
  • Partner Institutions
    Technical Exchange by Institution
    • Overseas Institutions
    • Domestic Industries
    • Research Institutes & Public Organizations

    • Core Talent Development

    • Establishment of an Industry-Academia Collaboration System

Research Areas
  • Water Quality & Waste Management
    • Wastewater treatment plant control based on unstructured (image) data
    • Real-time control of trace contaminants in water treatment plants
    • Energy recovery from organic waste
    • Hwang Seok-Hwan
    • Cho Kang-Woo
    • Song Woo-Cheol
  • Air Pollution
    • Big data construction for fine dust precursors
    • Development of materials and processes for fine dust control
    • Hong Seok-Bong
    • Lee Hyung-Ju
  • Ecological Environment
    • Marine ecosystem big data construction
    • Global-scale heavy metal big data construction
    • Ecotoxicity assessment and mitigation technology development
    • Lee Ki-Taek
    • Hwang Dong-Su
    • Kwon Se-Yoon
  • Climate Change
    • Climate and meteorological big data construction
    • Dynamical downscaling using high-resolution numerical modeling
    • Machine learning–based downscaling using advanced AI
    • Min Seung-Ki
    • Kam Jong-Hoon