The Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology (KIOST) is a private oceanography research organization based in Busan.
[1] KIOST was founded on October 30, 1973, under the name Korean Ocean Research and Development Institute (KORDI).
[4] In July 2017, the KIOST partnered with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to further the research of the Moored Array for African-Asian-Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction.
[5] In July 2018, when a South Korean company claimed to have found the wreck of a Russian warship (the Dmitrii Donskoi) that allegedly contained more than $130 billion in gold, the KIOST told the media it had known about the ship's location since 2003.
The main areas of interests are geological, geophysical and life sciencedalong with climate science.