Yoon Young-bin

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Yoon Young-bin
윤영빈
Yoon in 2024
1st Administrator of KASA
In office 27 May 2024 – 2 February 2026
Succeeded by	Oh Tae-seog
Personal details
Party	Independent
Education	University of Michigan (Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering)

Yoon Young-bin (Korean: 윤영빈) is a South Korean aerospace engineer and the first administrator of the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA).

Career

Yoon has been a professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Space Sciences at Seoul National University since 1996. He has conducted research on liquid rockets and gas turbine engines for over 40 years, and participated in the development of Naro-1 and Nuri, and the first phase of the Korean Lunar Exploration Program.

He also served as the director of the SNU Aerospace New Technology Research Institute and the director of the Next Generation Space Propulsion Research Center. Sung Tae-yoon, the chief of staff for policy at the president, introduced him as "Korea's leading researcher in the field of space propulsion."

• 1994: Researcher, University of California Davis Campus
• 1996: Full-time lecturer, Department of Aerospace Engineering, SNU
• 1998: Assistant professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, SNU
• 2002: Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, SNU
• 2024: Founding director, KASA

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