Scientist of the Year Award (Korean: 올해의 과학자상) is one of several awards given in South Korea by the Korea Science Journalists Association [ko].
From 1999, it was given to three winners, each within their own category, which changed to one category and one winner in 1996, removed the category system from 2011, and allowed multiple winners the following year.
Laureates receive a medal and 3 million KRW (roughly US$3,000) cash prize.
[6][7][8] Spelling of laureates' names matches their Wikipedia page, if it exists, the remainder uses Revised Romanization of Korean.
Job position and institution information are from the Korea Science Journalists Association's website.