Minsoo grew up in Seoul, South Korea. He earned his B.S. degree in neurobiology in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After a stint in pharmaceutical manufacturing, he joined the Department of Chemistry at UW–Madison in 2014 to advance his skills and knowledge as a synthetic chemist. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2020 under the supervision of Professor Jennifer Schomaker, where he focused on developing chemo-, regio-, and enantioselective silver-catalyzed nitrene transfer reactions. For his postdoctoral work, Minsoo pursued studies on electrosynthesis and radical-mediated reactions as an NIH fellow, working with Professor Song Lin at Cornell University. Since the beginning of 2024, Minsoo has embarked on his independent career at the University of South Florida.