Yoon Soo Kim worked for more than 30 years at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, after receiving his Ph.D. from Bodenkultur Univesitaet (BOKU) in Wien, Austria. Currently, he is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Wood Science and Engineering. His research focuses on pathological wood anatomy. His achievements were honored with his election as a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS) in 1997, the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (2002), and the Korea Academy of Sciences (2014). He was invited as a visiting scientist to renowned universities in Germany, the USA, France, Sweden, New Zealand, Malaysia, Japan, and China.