Hankook Kinetico Engineering (O’s GloTure) has entered into a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Leading Professor Gun Woong Bahng of SUNY Korea (The State University of New York, Korea) to advance joint research in materials science, biomedical applications, and environmental energy technologies.
Through this partnership, both parties will combine decades of foundational expertise in materials metrology and physical chemistry with applied engineering to accelerate next-generation R&D initiatives.
Leading Professor Gun Woong Bahng earned a B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Seoul National University, followed by an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. Prior to joining SUNY Korea as a Leading Professor in 2014, he served for nearly three decades at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) as a Principal Research Scientist, Head of the Microstructure Analysis Laboratory, Director of the Office of Global Partnership, and Director of the National Center for Standard Reference Data.
Internationally recognized in materials metrology, he has served as Chairman of IMEKO TC 5 (Hardness), Chairman of the APMP Working Group on Materials Metrology (WGMM), and Chairman of the APEC Network for Materials Evaluation Technology (ANMET).
His core research spans:
- Water-assisted combustion technology and carbon dioxide capture using membrane technology
- Properties and structure of water
- Biological effects of far-infrared waves from ceramics
- Microvesicles, pleomorphism, and the origin of life
Under the agreement, Hankook Kinetico Engineering and Prof.Bahng will collaborate on functional ceramic and far-infrared biological applications, water structure and microvesicle-related biomedical studies, Drug Discovery, and precision materials evaluation methodologies.
“Partnering with Leading Professor Bahng Gun Woong, whose distinguished career at KRISS and international metrology organizations has shaped global standards in materials evaluation, represents a major milestone for our research roadmap,” said a representative of Hankook Kinetico Engineering. “We look forward to translating this scientific synergy into breakthrough engineering solutions.”