Seung-Nam KIM, Ph.D., is an urban researcher and educator. He received his doctoral degree in urban design at Seoul National University and has been working for Chung-Ang University as an associate professor. He teaches theories and practice in planning and urban design. His current research interests include physical environment and pedestrian behaviors, virtual reality applications in urban studies, urban sustainability, and the smart city paradigm. Before joining Chung-Ang University, he was a director of the Pedestrian Environment Research Center, Architecture and Urban Research Institute, which is a government-run national think tank. He published 51 peer-reviewed journal articles including “Capturing reality: Validation of omnidirectional video-based immersive virtual reality as a streetscape quality auditing method” (Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021), “Shared Space and Pedestrian Safety: Empirical Evidence from Pedestrian Priority Street Projects in Seoul, Korea” (Sustainability, 2019), and “Perceived Safety and Pedestrian Performance in Pedestrian Priority Streets (PPSs) in Seoul, Korea: A Virtual Reality Experiment and Trace Mapping” (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021).