Professional Experience

- 2025 ~ Lecturer Visiting Professor, Dept. Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea.

- 2025 Adjacent Researcher, Environmental Planning Institute, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea.

- 2024 Advisory Committee on Regional Safety, National Disaster Management Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Ulsan, South Korea.

- 2020~2024 Associated Research Fellow, Architecture and Urban Research Institute, Sejong, South Korea.

Education

- 2019 Ph.D. (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning)

Lab. of Landscape Planning, Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture Course, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, Japan. (Advisor: Prof. Katsunori Furuya). 

- 2016 MLA (Master of Landscape Architecture, Summa Cum Laude) 

Lab. of Landscape Planning, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea. (Advisor: Prof. Yong-hoon, Son).  a representative graduate 

- 2012 BA (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, early graduation)

Lab. of Ecological Landscape Design, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. (Advisor: Prof. Myung-Woo, Lee).

Publications

- Kyunghun Min and Jisuk Park*. A Systematic Review of Landscape Architecture and Garden Education in South Korea, Journal of People, Plants, and Environment, 2025;28(6):747-762. 

- Kyunghun Min*. Exploring Research Fields in Green Buildings and Urban Green Spaces for Carbon-Neutral City Development, Buildings, 2025, 15(9), 1463.

- Jisuk Park, Kyunghun Min*. An Analysis of the Physical Environment and Distribution of Lifelong Education Facilities: A Case Study of Gongju City,  Journal of Lifelong Education, 2024;30(3):139-162. 

- Hyein Kim, Kyunghun Min*. Reclassification of Green Infrastructure Types and Functions: Focused on Matsudo City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Journal of People, Plants, and Environment, 2024;27(3):217-235. 

- Kyunghun Min, Jisoo Ahn, and Eun-Seok Lee*. Identification of Factors for Active Use of Rooftop Greenhouses in Korea: Based on Analysis of Foreign Exemplary Cases,  Journal of People, Plants, and Environment 2023;26(6):617-635. 

- Moonyoung Yoon, Kyunghun Min, and  Reiji Hiramatsu*. Park management through cooperating park managers and citizens; focused on Seoul Forest in Seoul Metropolis,  Journal of the Japan Institute of Landscape Architecture Technical report(84), 2021, 58-63. (in Japanese)

- Seungyong Yun, Kyunghun Min, and Hajung Ko*. "Spatio-Temporal Patterns of a Public Bike Sharing System in Seoul -Focusing on Yeouido District-", Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture 2020, 48(1), 1-44.

- Kyunghun Min, Moonyoung Yun, and Katsunori Furuya*. "A comparison of a Smart city's trends in Urban planning Before and After 2016 through Keyword network analysis", Sustainability 2019, 11(11), 3155.

- Kyunghun Min, Baysok Jun, Jaehyuck Lee, Hong Kim, and Katsunori Furuya*, "Analysis of Environmental Issues with an Application of Civil complaints; Case of the Shiheung City, Republic of Korea", International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16(6), 1018.

- Kyung-hun Min*, Yong-hoon Son, and Katsunori Furuya, "Categorizing Types of Transition Areas in Biosphere Reserve: A Case Study of the Baekdudaegan Mountain Ranges in South Korea", IRSPSD(International Review for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development) 2019, 7(1). 

- Jae-Hyuck Lee, Kyung-hun Min and Yong-hoon Son*, "Universal Design Principles for Forest Welfare Service Using Semantic Network Analysis - Focusing on the Mt.Yumyeong Natural Recreational Forest", Journal of the Korean Society of Rural Planning 2015, 21(2).

Oral presentations

- Oral Presentation: Mengying Gao, Kyunghun Min, and Katsunori Furuya* , "Extracting and Understanding Visitors' Cafe Preferences using Flickr Geotagged Photographs: The case of the Kiyosumi-Shirakawa area, Tokyo", Kanto Branch, Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2019, Chiba University, Japan.

- Oral Presentation: Mengying Gao, Kyunghun Min, Jiaying Shi, and Katsunori Furuya* , "An analysis of Visitors' Cafe Preferences using Flickr Geotagged Photos", AURG(Asian Urban Design for the Next Generation), 2019, Chung-ang University, Seoul, Korea.

- Oral Presentation: Yingming Mao, Kyunghun Min, and Katsunori Furuya* , "How does Japanese Cultural Education Influence the Perception of Japanese Gardens?  Focus on Japanese Students Studying Landscape",  The IRSPSD(International Reviews of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development) Conference, 2019, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

- Oral Presentation: Zhendong Liu, Hanqiu Zhang, Siqi Xing, Kumiko Kobayashi, Kyunghun Min, Ryo Nishisaka, Shixian Luo, Mai Uemura, Ziyue Hu, and Katsunori Furuya*, "Young People's Perception about Personal Green Space in Urban Open Area", The IRSPSD(International Reviews of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development) Conference, 2019, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

- Oral Presentation: Mengying Gao, Kyunghun Min and Katsunori Furuya* , "GPS Visitors Tracking and Recreation suitabliity Mapping with foreigner visitors: a case of Kiyosumi-Shirakawa in Japan", Kanto Branch, Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2018, Utsunomiya , Japan.

- Oral Presentation: Heyin Kim, Kyunghun Min, Mengying Gao and Konomi Ikebe*, "An Evaluation of the Multinational Functions viewed from land use pattern", Kanto Branch, Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2018, Utsunomiya , Japan. (in Japanese)

- Oral Presentation: Kyunghun Min* and Katsunori Furuya, "Analysis Environment Issues with Citizens' complaints, a case of Shi-heung City in South Korea", Kanto Branch, Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture, 2018, Utsunomiya , Japan. 

- Oral Presentation: Mengying Gao, Kyunghun Min*, and Katsunori Furuya, "Extract of Visitors' Recreation behavior Preferences of Coffee industry in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Suburban area in Tokyo, Japan", ICLEE 9th Conference, 2018, Taichung, Taiwan.    

- Oral Presentation: Kyunghun Min*, Baysok Jun, Jaehyuck Lee, Hong Kim, and Katsunori Furuya, "Issues of Urban Environment with Citizens' Complaints", ICLEE(International Consortium of Landscape and Ecological Engineering) 9th Conference, 2018, Taichung, Taiwan.    

- Oral presentation: Kyung-hun Min*, Yong-hoon Son, and Katsunori Furuya, "Categorizing Types of Transition Areas in Biosphere Reserve: A Case Study of the Baekdudaegan Mountain Ranges in South Korea", The IRSPSD(International Reviews of Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development) Conference, 2017, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

- Oral presentation: Kyung-hun Min*, Yong-hoon Son, and Katsunori Furuya, "A Study on Development of Coexistence index of Environment and Man for Zoning Baekdudaegan Mountain Range as Biosphere Reserve", The JpGU-AGU(Japan Geoscience Union-America Geoscience Union) Joint meeting Conference, 2017, Chiba, Japan.

Poster presentations

- Poster Presentation: Kyunghun Min*, Eun-Seok Lee, Sungjoon Kim, Jisoo Ahn, Seokhwan Ji, Directions for Establishing Korean Rooftop Greenhouse Guideline through Investigating advanced overseas cases, GREENSYS 2023, International Symposium on New Technologies for Sustainable Greenhouse Systems, International Society for Horticultural Science, 2023, Cancun, Mexico.

- Poster Presentation: Eun-Seok Lee*, Sungjoon Kim, Kyunghun Min, Jisoo Ahn, Seokhwan Ji, Optimal Selection Methods and Empirical Application of RGB Building: Focused on Daejeon City, GREENSYS 2023, International Symposium on New Technologies for Sustainable Greenhouse Systems, International Society for Horticultural Science, 2023, Cancun, Mexico.

- Poster Presentation: Jisoo Ahn*, Eun-Seok Lee, Sungjoon Kim, Kyunghun Min, Seokhwan Ji, Propose for Korean RGB(Rooftop Greenhouse Building) Operation Models, GREENSYS 2023, International Symposium on New Technologies for Sustainable Greenhouse Systems, International Society for Horticultural Science, 2023, Cancun, Mexico.

- Poster Presentation: Sungjoon Kim*, Eun-Seok Lee, Sungjoon Kim, Kyunghun Min, Jisoo Ahn, Seokhwan Ji, Identification of factors for active use of Korea’s rooftop greenhouse through analyzing foreign exemplary cases, GREENSYS 2023, International Symposium on New Technologies for Sustainable Greenhouse Systems, International Society for Horticultural Science, 2023, Cancun, Mexico.

- Poster Presentation: Hanqiu Zhang, Qiongying Xiang, Junchi Zhang, Yingming Mao, Jiaying Shi, Kyunghun Min, Ge Chen, Tokiya Oka, Zijiao Xie, Minami Kashima, I Made Pradnyan Dana Natawiguna, and Katsunori Furuya*, "Assessment of facilities for green tourism in Japan: Fifty-six indices in eight prefectures using online data. The JpGU-AGU(Japan Geoscience Union-America Geoscience Union) Joint Meeting Conference, 2019, Chiba, Japan.

- Poster Presentation: Qiongying Xiang, Chengyu Liu, Die Meng, Kyung-hun Min, Qianling Zhu, Tatsutya Ishizaki, Fumeng Zhang, Prita Indah Pratiwi, and Katsunori Furuya*, "A Study on Morizum Existent in Everyday life and Nature", The JpGU-AGU(Japan Geoscience Union-America Geoscience Union) Joint meeting Conference, 2018, Chiba, Japan.

- Poster presentation: Kyung-hun Min*, Bay-sok Jun, Seung-yong Yun, and Katsunori Furuya, "The sustainability of City considering Urban Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO - A case of Gwa-choen City, South Korea", The 3rd ISSLD(International Symposium for Sustainable Landscape Development), 2017, Bogor Agricultural University(IPB), Bogor, Indonesia.

*Corresponding Author

Research Experience

- Associated Researcher, Development and demonstration of Rooftop Green Building Convergence System based on Multiple Distributed Power Generation, 2023~2024, National R&D, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Korea.

- Associated Researcher, Future Strategy of Building Management, Building Management Support Center, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, 2022, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Korea.

- Associated Researcher, The Diagnoses and Measures for Sustainable Improvement of the Regional Safety Level, 2021, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Korea.

- Associated Researcher, The Development of Regional Safety Level Assessment System, 2020, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Korea.

- Research assistant, A Research of the Resilient Urban Design for Natural Disasters by Climate Change, 2019, Architecture & Urban Research Institute, Korea.

- Research assistant, Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services, 2017, National Institute of Ecology, Korea.

- Scholarship Beneficiary, 2016~2019, MEXT(Ministry of Education, Cultural, Sports, Science and Technology) of Japan, Japan.

- Honor graduate student, 2016, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Korea. 

- A Study on Development of Coexistence Index of Environment and Man for Zoning Baekdudaegan Mountain Range as Biosphere Reserve, 2016, Master's degree, Seoul National University, Korea. *Excellent dissertation

- Research assistant, Designating as UNESCO’s Biosphere Zone in Korea Baekdudaegan Ridge,  2015, Korea Forest Service, Korea.

- Scholarship of Outstanding student of grades, 2015, SNU Development Foundation Scholarship, Seoul National University, Korea.

- Research assistant, Designating as Korea’s Baekdudaegan Biosphere Reserve, 2014, Korea Forest Service, Korea. 

- Research assistant, Researcher Investigation of Natural Resource focused on Taeanhaean National park, 2014, Korea National Park Service, Korea. 

- JASSO Program International CCDC (Cross Culture Design Collaboration) Workshop, 2014, Chiba University, Japan. 

- Teaching assistant, Summer landscape architecture Workshop, 2014, Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture, Korea.

- Research assistant, Management strategy of urban park focusing on green growth, 2010, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea.

- Research assistant, Evaluation of stream naturalness technique, 2010, Ministry of Environment, Korea.

- Scholarship of Outstanding Student, 2010, CBNU Development Foundation Scholarship, Chonbuk National University, Korea.

- Scholarship for Superior Academic Performance, 2006~2011, Chonbuk National University. Korea. 

Awards & Recognitions

- Best paper award, 2024,  Journal of People Plants Environment, Korea. 

- Receiving a Commendation from minister of Ministry of the Interior and Safety, 2020, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Korea.

- Outstanding Student Presentation award, 2017, JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting Conference, Japan.

- Second prize, Environment Competition of rural amenity, 2014, Rural Development Administration, Korea.

- Winner prize,  JASSO Program International CCDC (Cross Culture Design Collaboration) Performance Workshop,  2014, Chiba University, Japan. 

- Fourth prize, Environmental Landscape Architecture Competition of Korea,  2011, Evergreen Foundation, Korea.

- Second prize, Landscape Architecture competition of Chonbuk province, 2011, The Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture, Korea.

- Fourth prize, Design Competition of the public space in front of building in Seoul, 2010, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Korea.

- Third prize, Design Competition of forming human friendly village in Seoul, 2010, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Korea.

- Fourth prize, Design Competition of Urban forest, 2010, Korea Forest Service, Korea.

- Fourth Prize, Environment Competition of rural amenity, 2010, Rural Development Administration, Korea.

- Winner prize, Summer landscape architecture School (Workshop), 2010, The Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture, Korea. 

- Second prize, Healing (therapy) design Competition, 2010, Prune Cooperation, Korea. 

Certification of Qualification

- Engineer in Natural Environment and Ecological Restoration, 2012, Human Resources Development Service of Korea, Korea. 

- Engineer in Landscape Architecture, 2011, Human Resources Development Service of Korea, Korea.

- Compulsory military service in Korea, 2006~2008, Korea.

Contact 

- email: kyunghunm@gmail.com