Principal Researcher Dongkon Lee Won 'KRISO Scientist' Award

▶ Conducted Korean’s first research on safe design of ships, including damage, fire safety, and human life escape

□ Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO, President Keyyong Hong) announced that Principal Researcher Dongkon Lee won the KRISO Scientist Award.

□ The KRISO Scientist Award is granted to a person who has greatly contributed to the development of KRISO by raising the status of the research institute and the science and technology community by means of excellent accomplishments.

□ Principal Researcher Dongkon Lee, who joined KRISO in 1983, is a veteran researcher who has taken the lead in the field of naval vessel design and ship safety design for about 40 years.

□ Principal Researcher Dongkon Lee has taken the initiative in strengthening Korea’s naval defense capacity by performing conceptual design of novel naval vessels such as naval training ships, fast boats, and next-generation destroyers and developing systems that can increase safety of naval vessels in the event of fire.

□ Furthermore, he developed Korea’s first ‘on-board decision support system in response to fire and damage accident,’ leading research on the securing of ship safety and the technology for coping with ship damage. This technology is a decision support system for performing real-time prediction of ship accident situations and their impacts and coping with the accidents effectively. The technology was selected as one of the New Maritime and Fishery Technologies of the year 2021.

□ Until recently, Lee has actively carried out innovative R&D work, including the development of technologies for reliability assessment of autonomous navigation systems and accident counteractions.

□ In addition, he has made efforts in international technical activities. For example, he developed a flooding simulation technology and relevant damage scenarios for determining safety of damaged ships and provided them to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), as well as proposing the need for accident counteraction technologies to the Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS Code), thereby playing an essential role for Korea to take the lead in the development of the MASS Code.

□ Receiving the KRISO Scientist Award at the 2024 Kick-Off Meeting of KRISO, Principal Researcher Dongkon Lee said, “I am really happy to win the honorable ‘KRISO Scientist’ Award, to which I have devoted myself throughout my lifetime.” He also expressed his feelings, saying “I am grateful to my colleagues who have worked together with me, and as a marine engineer, I would like to continue to make further contributions to KRISO as well as to the development of Korea’s shipbuilding industry.”

< Dongkon Lee(right) won the ‘KRISO Scientist’ Award >