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When human being was blind to science and technology,
we had to travel far to acquire knowledge.
Today, we are sharing scientific knowledge handed down for generations with the rest of the world.

Those who were there to witness the beginning of Korea’s miracle
Those who now prepare for the next 50 years with inheritance of 50 years

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information - KISTI!
Here is our story.

In 1960s when Korea was a poor nation with GNI per capita of less than 100 dollars, it seemed like poverty and hunger would last forever.
Science and technology was the key to overcoming poverty and reviving Korea.

In January 1962, Korea’s first Science & Technology Information Center was established to develop Korea’s science technologies and economy.

In a country that was a wasteland for science and technology and industrial infrastructure, KISTI became a trailblazer, experiencing both the joys and hardships of Korean companies during the journey to achieving Korea’s unbelievable economic miracle.

Leading Korea from a nation of poverty to one of the top 10 economic powerhouses in the world, KISTI has laid strong foundation in Korean science and technology.
This is what makes KISTI’s 50-year history so special,
and why we eagerly look forward to the next 50 years.
there were those who shared every moments in Korean history.

Over the past 50 years, KISTI has led the way in building Korea’s national science, technology and knowledge information infrastructure.

By collecting and providing advanced science & technology information and producing value-added information through industrial and technology information analysis and establishing a next-generation research environment based on high-performance supercomputers, KISTI is playing a crucial role in making Korea one of the science and technology strong countries of the world.

Science & Technology Information Dissemination
In an environment where information is created every year,
KISTI is striving to provide optimized, high-quality science & technology information.

Through Korea’s largest science and technology information portal NDSL,
KISTI has established a database of over 100 million science and technology information-related contents and is providing up-to-date information by utilizing semantics-based searching technology.?

And by establishing KESLI, which is a national level electronic information joint purchase consortium, KISTI has purchased 26,000 electronic journals with 550 organizations including universities and companies, resulting in reduction of approximately 1 trillion won in expenses.

Furthermore, the National Technology Information Service (NTIS) which is designed for shared use of national R&D information is preventing overlapping R&D investments and maximizing R&D investment efficiency and productivity.

Information Analysis
KISTI is also providing value-added information analysis services to cope with demands in a timely manner in today’s rapidly changing information environment and to support corporations in establishing optimum strategies and focus on technology developments.

By establishing various support programs for supporting customer success through technology commercialization, KISTI is discovering prominent technologies that will lead Korea’s future and is sharing technology commercialization know-how.

The Promising Future Technology Seminar, which is hosted by KISTI ever year, is evaluated as Korea’s leading science and technology information seminar for companies to see the latest technical trends and to establish future strategies in today’s era of intense global competition.

By providing new business opportunities to SMEs and competitive information analysis models, KISTI is becoming a stepping stone for SMEs to become global enterprises.

Supercomputing
By introducing and operating the 360 teraflops Supercomputer, KISTI, as a national supercomputing center, is serving a core role in strengthening Korea's S&T competitiveness.

By establishing the state-of-the-art national R&D network KREONET, KISTI is connecting 16 key regions of Korea and 28,000 research institutes in the world. This state-of-the-art cyber research infrastructure allows research institutes to share research resources without restrictions of time or space.

By utilizing this cyber infrastructure to provide an environment in which Korean researchers can utilize data created from the world’s three largest accelerators and enormous CPU resources access, KISTI has created a research environment for Korean researchers to easily begin large science research projects on a global scale.

By developing the high-tech science education hub, Edison System, KISTI is allowing engineering major students and industry personnel to simulate their latest research achievements online, which allows highly-qualified engineering manpower to begin research early and to save time and re-education costs.

SME Support
KISTI's mission is also to make Korean SMEs into strong enterprises.

By establishing the Association of Science and Technology Information (ASTI), which is a nationwide industrial-academic-research collaboration network , KISTI is providing information support as well as technology and product development support using KISTI’s supercomputer.

By visiting 100 SMEs on site and designating one KISTI researcher for each SME to provide R&D support, KISTI has dramatically reduced the R&D period for SMEs that experience manpower and information shortages.

And by utilizing supercomputers in SME technology and product development, KISTI has cut down the time and cost for manufacturing a product, which ultimately supports SMEs to become strong enterprises.

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To achieve the vision and goal of becoming an “Global S&T Information Research Institute that creates customer values”, KISTI is promoting its new 4S core management values.

As the root of Korea’s science and technology, KISTI has contributed to Korea’s scientific development by creating greater customer values.

Having served at the center of science and technology information over the past 50 years, KISTI is preparing to soar to greater heights in the next 50 years.

KISTI is made by people.
And KISTI is made for the people.?

The new future of Korea!
The next 50 years of science and technology!
KISTI will lead the way!