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The society now has a membership of about
4,000 as of 2018. Approximately 70% of these
members are in universities, 20% in research
institutions and 10% in industry. These members
represent a wide range of disciplines and fields
including Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Electrical
Engineering, Metallurgy, Material Sciences,
Mechanical,Nuclear, LifeScience, Semiconductors,
Electroluminescence, Vacuum and others.
The society is administered by a General
Assembly and a Board of Directors. There
are ten vice presidents covering the domains
of General Affairs, Publications, Treasury,
Business, and Public Relations. The
society has six Technical Divisions: Vacuum
Technology, Surface Science, Thin Films and
semiconductor, Plasma and Display, Nano-bio
and Energy. Other activities of the society are
administered through ten committees, namely
a Steering Committee, an Editorial Committee,
a KVS-Industry Relations Committee, an
Awards, Honors and Scholarship Committee,
International relation Committee, Ethics
Committee and Legislation Committee.
The KVS has established and maintains many
international relationships. In November 1991,
the KVS signed a Cooperative Relationship
Memorandum with the American Vacuum
Society (AVS). In October 1992, the society
became a member of the IUVSTA. Between
1992 and 1993, the KVS established cooperative
relationships with the Japan Vacuum Society, the
Japan Vacuum Industry Association, the Chinese
Vacuum Society, and the Taiwan Vacuum Society.
Since 1993 a number of conferences have been
organised with international partners including
the Korean-Japan Vacuum Microelectronics
Symposium in Seoul, the Korean-Japan
Symposium on Control of Semiconductor
Interfaces, the Korean-Japan CVD Symposium
in Taegu, the Korean-China Thin Films
Symposium (held yearly), the International
Compound Semiconductor Symposium, the
Korea-Japan Symposium on Surface Analysis,
and the International Nanoscale Surface Science
Symposium. The KVS has organised and
endorsedmany international conferences: ICMAP
(International Conference on Micro electronics
and Plasma Technologies, www.icmap-2018.
The Korean Vacuum Society (KVS) was founded in February 1991 with 80 members.Tong Soo
Park, professor of Kyungpook National University, was elected as the first President of the
Society. The objectives of the society are to promote vacuum science, technology and their
applications, and to support the development of vacuum and its related industries, including
the semiconductor industry, in Korea.
THE KOREAN VACUUM SOCIETY (KVS)
President Eun Kyu Kim