Yoon Young-bin () is a South Korean aerospace engineer and the first Administrator of the

Korea AeroSpace Administration The Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA; ) is a Korean government-funded space and aeronautics agency. Established under the Ministry of Science and ICT, KASA oversees the Korea Aerospace Research Institute and Korea Astronomy and Space Science ...

Career

Yoon has been a professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Space Sciences at

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a public university, public research university in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the SKY (universities), SKY universities and a part of the Flagship Korean National Universities. The university's main c ...

since 1996. He has conducted research on

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s and gas turbine engines for over 40 years, and participated in the development of

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and

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, and the first phase of the Korean Lunar Exploration Program. He also served as the director of the SNU Aerospace New Technology Research Institute and the director of the Next Generation Space Propulsion Research Center. Sung Tae-yoon, the chief of staff for policy at the president, introduced him as "Korea's leading researcher in the field of space propulsion." * 1994: Researcher,

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Davis Campus * 1996: Full-time lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, SNU * 1998: Assistant professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, SNU * 2002: Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SNU * 2024: First Director, KASA

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