Myung Kyungjae is a biologist researching DNA repair pathways at the molecular level.

He is on the editorial board of various peer-reviewed journals and is a member of multiple scientific societies.

Majoring in zoology, Myung received his bachelor's from Seoul National University (SNU) graduating with honors in 1991.

[2] Myung did his postdoctoral training at Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in the University of California, San Diego from 1999 to 2002 under Professor Richard Kolodner.

The following year he fully relocated to Ulsan City where he became a distinguished professor in the School of Life Sciences at UNIST while also becoming the founding director of the IBS Center for Genomic Integrity, a collaboration with the Institute for Basic Science.