▲​At the 2023 Doosan Yonkang Environmental Academic Awards Ceremony held on November 1, (from left) Doosan Yonkang Foundation CEO Lee Won-jae, Korea Institute of Science and Technology researcher Hong Seok-won, and Korean Society of Environmental Engineers President Jangam are taking a commemorative photo.​

On the 1st, Doosan Yonkang Foundation (Chairman Yong-Hyun Park) held the ‘2023 Doosan Yonkang Environmental Academic Award’ ceremony at BEXCO in Busan and awarded 30 million won in prize money and a plaque to Researcher Seok-Won Hong of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology and 10 million won to Professor Sang-Hyun Kim of Yonsei University.

Researcher Seok-Won Hong, who was selected as the winner, presented a technology to maximize water treatment reactions by using metal material synthesis technology to improve the efficiency of pollutant treatment and by changing the polarity.

Professor Sang-Hyun Kim succeeded in producing the world’s best biohydrogen* by presenting a method for rapid production and high-concentration maintenance of substances in which hydrogen-producing bacteria grow in clusters.
*Biohydrogen: A high value-added resource produced by microorganisms decomposing organic matter and recoverable from environmental infrastructure such as wastewater treatment plants

The Doosan Yonkang Environmental Academic Award was established in 2019 as an extension of the environmental safety research support project that the Doosan Yonkang Foundation has been conducting from 1993 to 2017, and has been continuously implemented to promote the development of Korean environmental studies and to encourage research motivation among environmental professionals.