Honors and Awards (Selected)

2023 CBNU GALAXIA Award for Outstanding Researcher, Chungbuk National University, September 2023

Who’s Who in the World 2020 (37rd Edition), Marquis Who’s Who, September 2019

2018 Outstanding Faculty Award for Faculty Performance Evaluation (1st place), KAAY, May 2019

Best Paper Award, KAAY, Republic of Korea, December 2018

Army Chief of Staff Citation, Best Professor, ROK Army, Republic of Korea, June 2018

Ministerial Citation, Minister of National Defense, Republic of Korea, March 2018

2015 Outstanding Faculty Award for Faculty Performance Evaluation (1st place), KAAY, May 2016

2014 Outstanding Faculty Award for Faculty Performance Evaluation (1st place), KAAY, September 2015

2013 Outstanding Faculty Award for Faculty Performance Evaluation (1st place), KAAY, April 2014

Graduate Scholarship, University of Arizona, Spring 2009-Fall 2011

Overseas Scholarship for Prospective Professors of KAAY, Ministry of National Defense, Fall 2007-Spring 2010

2005 Outstanding Faculty Award for Faculty Performance Evaluation, KAAY, April 2006

Excellence Award & Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance in the Officer’s Advanced Course (OAC) for Prospective Company Commander (1st place), ROK Army, October 2003.

Excellence Award for Outstanding Academic Performance in the Master’s Program, Army Cadet Command, February 2002  

Scholarship for Prospective Professors of KAAY, Ministry of National Defense, Spring 2001-Fall 2002

Excellence Award & Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance in the Officer’s Basic Course (OBC) for Prospective Platoon Leader (1st place), Army Armor School, July 1999

Excellence Award & Medal for Outstanding Academic Performance in the Undergraduate  Program (Summa Cum Laude; 5th place), ROK Army, March 1999

Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award, Korea Military Academy, February 1999