From a 98-Year-Old Senior to a 48-Year-Old Professor… Science Scholars Share Their “Moments of Failure”

Korean Academy of Science and Technology Launches “Scholars’ Career Decisions”
Sharing Choices, Setbacks, and Challenges from the Lives of Leading Researchers with the Public

Leading students who’ve formed South Korea’s science and expertise neighborhood will publicly share their experiences of failure, selections, and decisive turning factors of their analysis careers. The issues and frustrations which have remained behind the scenes, in addition to the driving forces which have motivated scientists to proceed their work, might be conveyed within the kind of lectures and coverage suggestions.

The Korean Academy of Science and Technology introduced on May 20 that it’ll formally launch the “2026 Scholars’ Career Decisions” initiative, starting with a lecture by Choi Seungbok within the afternoon.

‘2026 Scholar Career Decisions’ Yearly Schedule Promotion Flyer. Provided by The National Academy of Sciences

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Now in its fourth 12 months, this program options main scientists, together with Korea’s National Scientists and members of the Academy, who file and share their experiences of selections, dilemmas, failures, and challenges on the crossroads of their analysis careers by way of lectures and publications for the general public.

This 12 months’s lecture collection might be held on the Academy Hall from May to early December, with a complete of 11 audio system collaborating. Notably, contributors embrace Jo Wankyu, the “living history of science and technology” at age 98; Moon Seunghyun, a scientist from Gwangju who served as president of the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST); Ahn Jongseok, who has labored as a researcher at government-funded institutes for practically 40 years; Nam Kitae, a 48-year-old supplies scientist acknowledged for a 2018 cowl article in Nature; and Kim Hyunjung, the primary feminine physicist to be elected as a member of the Academy.

Beginning this 12 months, the Academy will transcend conventional coverage experiences to launch “storytelling-type policy recommendations” that incorporate the non-public analysis experiences and on-site circumstances of the students. Two presenters might be chosen as authors to publish a coverage advice report containing methods and coverage alternate options for the longer term improvement of science and expertise by the tip of the 12 months.

Jin Ho Jung, President of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, said, “The research experiences and insights of distinguished scientists are valuable assets accumulated by our society. I hope the records of their choices and challenges will offer guidance and inspiration to future generations of researchers and contribute to the continued advancement of our science and technology.”

Since the launch of the Scholars’ Career Decisions initiative in 2023, a complete of 85 students have participated up to now. Lecture movies and publications are being launched by way of the official Academy web site and YouTube channel, and this 12 months’s lecture movies and coverage advice experiences can even be made obtainable on-line sequentially.

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