Korea Institute for Advanced Study

The Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) is an advanced research institute in South Korea.

It is located on a 30-acre (12 ha) campus in Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul.

[1] KIAS was founded in 1996, aiming to become a world leading research institute where international elite scholars gather and dedicate to fundamental research in basic sciences.

[2] Currently, there are three schools in the institute: mathematics, physics, and computational sciences.

KIAS is funded by the government and is a subordinate institute of KAIST.