Sun Kee Kim is a physics professor at Seoul National University and the director of Korea Invisible Mass Search. He was directing the Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science.
Sun-Kee Kim acquired his B.Sc. in 1983, M.Sc. in 1985, and Ph.D. in 1988, all from the Korea University. He spent two years (1988-1990) as a Research Associate at KEK in Japan and another two years (1990-1992) as a Senior Research Associate at the Rutgers University. He joined the faculty at Seoul National University in 1992. He served, as the director, the Rare Isotope Science Project, Institute for Basic Science from 2011 to 2014. He was a visiting scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laoboratory in USA in 1995 and at the KEK in Japan in 1999.
He earned several awards through his career: The SSC Fellowship, TNRLC in 1991, the Koshiba prize from the Foundation for High Energy Accelerator Science, Japan in 2006, the Scientist of the Month from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of South Korea in 2008, and the SNU Award for Excellent Research in 2008.