Dr. Hong Suk Kim has been serving as a principal researcher at the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) since 1997. His responsibilities have included regulatory work in areas such as radiological environmental impact assessment, radiation protection requirements, emergency preparedness and response, control of naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM), management of radioactive sources, transport safety, and radioactive waste management.
He received his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from Hanyang University in 2007 and holds a nationally licensed Professional Engineer Certificate in Radiation Protection, the highest technical qualification in this field in Korea.
Since 2019, Dr. Kim has also served as an adjunct professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), teaching graduate-level courses in the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering. In 2024, he was awarded the Order of Science and Technology Merit by the Government of the Republic of Korea in recognition of his work in radiation protection and nuclear safety.
At the international level, Dr. Kim has participated in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Task Force on the review of the ALPS treated water discharge into the sea since 2021 as the representative of the Republic of Korea. He also served as Korea’s representative to the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) from the sixty-seventh session in 2020 to the sixty-ninth session in 2022, and is scheduled to resume this role at the seventy-second session in 2025.
