Korean Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (KOSOMBE) Activity Report: 1997-1998

New President and Administrative Council

The new President and President Elect were elected in the General Assembly on 21 November, 1997. A list of the members of the new administrative council are shown below. The new presidentship for a two-year term started on 1 January 1998.

PresidentMyung-Chul Lee
President Elect Hyoung-Ro Yoon
SecretaryKwang-Suk Park
Chairman of
  • Editorial Committee
  • Academic Committee
  • Educational Committee
  • International Committee
  • Publication Committee
  • Industrial Cooperation Committee
  • Kui-Won Choi
  • Deok-Won Kim
  • Gon Khang
  • Sun I. Kim
  • Heung-Ho Choi
  • Museong Mun
Membership Enrollment
  • Regular Member
  • Lifetime Member
  • Special Member
  • Student Member
  • 708
  • 218
  • 8
  • 351
Total1285

The Fourth Biomedical Engineering Award and the Fourth Medison Awards

There was an award ceremony for the Fourth Biomedical Engineering Award and the Fourth Medison Awards at the General Assembly. The Biomedical Engineering Award went to a distinguished member who has greatly contributed to the promotion of biomedical engineering in Korea. The Medison Awards went to four members who have built academic excellences in biomedical engineering research and development. Medison Awards are supported by the Medison Medical Company. The recipients of this year's are as follows:

Biomedical Engineering Award:

  • Chang-Sun Koh, MD (College of Medicine, Seoul National University)

Medison Awards:

  • Museong Mun, PhD (College of Medicine, Korea Rehabilitation Research Institute)
  • Hwahl Suh, MD (College of Engineering, Yonsei University)
  • Nam-Kyun Kim, PhD (College of Medicine, Chonbuk University)
  • In-Young Kim, MD (Biomedical Engineering Research Center, Samsung Medical Center)

Progress in the preparation of APCMBE99

The organisation committee for the Fourth APCMBE decided theat the conference would be held at the Hotel Sheraton Walker Hill, Seoul, Korea. The first announcement for the Fourth APCMBE has also been published. The second circular will be available at the end of October. A webpage was launched and dedicated to the Fourth APCMBE. It can be found at http://bme.hanyang.ac.kr/APCMBE99. The conference will be held from 12-15 September 1999.

Increase of number of issues for KOSOMBE journal

From this year, KOSOMBE decided to publish six issues of the KOSOMBE journal per year. Owing to the continuous increase in the number of submitted papers, four issues of the journal were not sufficient to publish the accepted papers in time and there were many papers waiting to be published. We hope that an increase in the number of issues will relieve this delay in publication.

National conferences

As usual we had two national conferences during this period. The last autumn conference was held in Yonsei University in Seoul and the spring conference was held in Chungnam University in Taejon. There was a sharp increase in the number of presented papers and participants. In the last conference, there were 150 presentations and approximately 500 members attended.

First Korea-US joint workshop on biomedical engineering

KOSOMBE launched the Korea-US joint workshop on Biomedical Engineering. This workshop was supported by the NSF and KOSEF and held in Chungnam University in conjunction with the KOSOMBE spring Conference. Eleven delegates from the US and eleven counter-part delegates from Korea joined the workshop. Topics included biomaterial/tissue engineering, artificial organ/rehabilitation and neurophysiology/signal processing. After the workshop, delegates from both countries decided to continue this workshop on an annual basis and agreed to organise the next workshop in conjunction with the Fourth APCMBE.

Kwang Suk Park, PhD

Chairman and Associate Professor

Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, 28 Yongon-Dong, Chongno-Ku, Seoul 110-799, Korea.

Tel: +82-2-760-3135, Fax: +82-2-745-7870

Email:kspark@snuvh.snu.ac.kr