About us

The human wish for a prosperous life has brought about the development of advanced science and technology, and Hyundai has entered an era of infinite competition. The development of advanced science and technology is based on the premise of the development of basic sciences such as mathematics and physics. This development of basic science can also be attributed to the pure desire of human nature to understand and explain all natural phenomena.
Among them, the development of mathematics in particular is the crystallization of human infinite thinking. The development of mathematics has enabled the explanation of many natural laws and is also the basis for the development of high-tech science. Many theories of mathematics have come from the raising of real problems and their resolution, and the analytical and comprehensive abilities of problems obtained in the course of such problem solving and theorizing can be applied to all other humanities or natural sciences.
The purpose of the education in the mathematics department is to foster the forces that can actively and creatively work in social fields by first cultivating the thinking power and the comprehensive ability to analyze problems that are fostered in the process of acquiring mathematics theory by first imparting basic mathematics knowledge and generating sufficient motivation for mathematics.
In addition, the goal is to train students who go to graduate school based on their ability and aptitude as professional intellectuals with outstanding creative research skills and to train them as individuals who can faithfully guide students when they enter the education field.




The Department of Mathematics was established on December 3, 1986, with six faculty members and 20 undergraduate students, and the graduate school opened in 1987. As of April 2017, we have 21 full-time professors, 2 collegiate assistant professors, 5 emeritus professors, 93 undergraduate students, 5 master’s degree candidates, 1 doctoral degree candidate. As of February 2017, 452 undergraduate, 260 masters, and 111 Ph.D. students have graduated.
Dec. 3, 1986 | POSTECH founded with the Department of Mathematics |
Dec. 14, 1986 | First Math Competition (248 participants) |
Mar. 1, 1987 | Prof. Jin Ho Kwak appointed as 1st Department Head |
Mar. 5, 1987 | First matriculation ceremony (21 undergraduate students) |
Aug. 16, 1987 | Prof. Chung Nim Lee appointed as 2nd Department Head (2nd, 3rd, 4th served) |
Mar. 2, 1988 | First graduate students matriculation (6 MS, 1 PhD) |
Feb. 7, 1990 | First Commencement Ceremony of Graduate School (5 master students) |
Feb. 20, 1990 | First Commencement Ceremony (8 undergraduate students) |
Mar. 1, 1992 | Prof. Kyung Hwan Kwun appointed as 5th Department Head |
Mar. 1, 1994 | Prof. Chung Nim Lee appointed as 6th Department Head |
Sept. 1, 1994 | Prof. Kwang Ik Kim appointed as 7th Department Head |
Sept. 1, 1996 | Prof. Sung Pyo Hong appointed as 8th Department Head |
Sept. 1, 1998 | Prof. Kang Tae Kim appointed as 9th Department Head |
Feb. 28, 1999 | Prof. Kyung Hwan Kwun appointed as emeritus professor |
Sept. 10, 1999 | COM2 MAC established |
Sept. 1, 2000 | Prof. Yun Sung Choi appointed as 10th Department Head |
Feb. 7, 2002 | Best Certificate in Mathematics Evaluation by the Korean Education Council (undergraduate, Graduate School) |
Feb. 28, 2002 | Prof. Chung Nim Lee appointed as emeritus professor |
Jul. 22, 2002 | MOU with Valencia Univ., Spain |
Mar. 1, 2003 | Prof. Sung Pyo Hong appointed as 11th Department Head |
Mar. 1, 2005 | Prof. Kang Tae Kim appointed as 12th Department Head |
Mar. 2, 2005 | Admission to the 1st MS/PhD integrated program (2 students) |
Sept. 1, 2005 | First admission of international graduate student (1 Vietnamese) |
Jan. 2, 2006 | Moved to Mathematics Science Building |
Mar. 1, 2006 | Intoduced collegiate professorship for teaching |
Jun. 1, 2006 | Selected for Second-phase of the BK21 Project by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development |
Mar. 1, 2007 | Prof. Young Ju Choie appointed as 13th Department Head |
Jul. 1, 2007 | Pohang Mathematics Institute (PMI) established |
Sept. 1, 2007 | Opening of the Hillbert Space in Mathematics Science Building |
Jan. 1, 2008 | Fiirst Five Gold Button Math Competition |
Nov. 7, 2008 | MOU with the Department of Mathematics of the National University of Vietnam |
Jan. 1, 2009 | Prof. John Coates, Unversity of Cambridge, UK, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor |
Jan. 6, 2009 | MOU with Kyushu University, Japan |
Sept. 1, 2009 | Prof. Hyung Ju Park appointed as 14th Department Head |
Sept. 1, 2009 | Prof. Paul Rabinowitz, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor |
May.16, 2010 | Prof. Yong-Geun Oh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor |
Jul.29, 2010 | The 25th Math Competition held by the Mathematics Department (1,759 applicants) |
Oct. 22, 2010 | Held 2010 KMS Fall Meeting at POSTECH |
Feb. 18, 2011 | Prof. Jin Ho Kwak appointed as emeritus professor |
Sept. 7, 2011 | Center for Geometry and its Applications (GAIA) established (NRF SRC) |
Sept. 8, 2011 | POSTECH Math BK21 ranks 1st in the fifth nationwide NRF evaluation |
Sept. 22, 2011 | Ranked best department of Mathematics in JoongAng Ilbo Korean University Rankings |
Mar. 9, 2012 | MOU with University of Minnesota, USA |
Mar. 9, 2012 | Prof. Sung Pyo Hong appointed as emeritus professor |
Jul. 31, 2012 | Center for Geometry and Physics (CGP) established (IBS) |
Nov. 19, 2012 | Prof. Yong-Geun Oh awarded the 8th Kyung-Ahm Prize |
Mar. 1, 2013 | Prof. Hyun Kwang Kim appointed as 15th Department Head |
Jun. 1, 2014 | Selected for the BK21 Plus Project by the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development |
Feb. 7, 2015 | Prof. Hyung Ju Park appointed as 16th Department Head |
Apr. 1, 2015 | Prof. Don B. Zagier, Max Plank Institute, Germany, appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor |
Sept. 1, 2015 | Prof. Sung Sub Choi appointed as Acting 16th Department Head |
Jan. 25, 2016 | Prof. Jong Guk Bak appointed as 17th Department Head |
Jun. 15, 2016 | Postech Center for Applications of Mathematics (PCAM-PMI) established |
Sept. 8, 2016 | Ranked best department of Mathematics in JoongAng Ilbo Korean University Rankings |
Feb. 22, 2017 | Prof. Kwang Ik Kim appointed as emeritus professor |
Feb. 22, 2018 | Opened L-Function Lab (Basic Lab Support Project, Ministry of Science and ICT) |
Jan. 23, 2019 | Kwon Kwan-Hwan Emeritus Professor Selected as Korea Science and Technology Merit |
Mar. 01, 2019 | Prof. Kwon Yong-hoon, Young-seon Shim appointed as emeritus professor |
Aug. 17, 2019 | Prof. Yoon Sung Choi inaugurated as 18th head professor |
Sep. 01, 2019 | CRT (Center for Research in Topology) established |
Dec. 12, 2019 | Prof. Yong-Geun Oh awarded Year 2019 Korea Science Award (President’s Prize) |
Sep. 01, 2020 | Selected for Fourth-phase of the BK21 Project |
Oct. 01, 2020 | POSTECH MINDS (Mathematical Institute for Data Science) established |
Aug. 25, 2021 | Prof. Hyun Kwang Kim appointed as emeritus professor |
Nov. 05, 2021 | Prof. YoungJu Choie awarded the 17th Kyung-Ahm Prize |
Mar. 01, 2022 | Prof. Kang Tae Kim appointed as emeritus professor |
Apr. 04, 2022 | Prof. YoungJu Choie awarded Order of Science & Technology Merit, Hyeoksin Medal |
May 31, 2022 | Prof. Yong-Geun Oh awarded 2022 Samsung HOAM prize |
Aug. 15, 2022 | Prof. Jae-Hun Jung inaugurated as 19th head professor |
Sep. 01, 2022 | Prof. Byung Gyun Kang, Jong-Guk Bak, Sung sub Choi appointed as emeritus professor |
Ph.D. acquirer
Career Status
- Professor - 4842%
- Researcher - 2522%
- Industry - 3329%
- Others - 97%
Career status of MS degree graduates in the past 5 years
- Graduate School - 16%
- Industry - 638%
- Enlistment - 1818%
- Others - 638%
Career status of BS degree Undergraduates in the past 5 years
- Graduate School - 6149%
- Industry - 2722%
- Others - 3629%
minority elite education Professors who are giving research results that are paying attention to the 39 percent of the papers published in the world's seven major mathematical journals are guiding graduate students, 21 full-time teachers and 80 graduate students.
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