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Korea Engineering Award

academic award of South Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ19483801 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Korea Engineering Award is an award presented to South Koreans and Korean engineers working in domestic universities or research positions. It is currently jointly presented by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea. Research achievements are limited to that of a single project conducted in Korea. Potential recipients go through a several stage review which includes consolation with foreign scholars. It is given annually to up to four individuals and is presented with the Korea Science Award. Prize money of KRW 30 million is given in addition to the award.

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The award is given in up to four fields.

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“Korea Engineering Award” enters the record as academic award of South Korea. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Korea, Engineering and Award can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 107-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Korea, Engineering and Award.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19483801. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Korea Engineering Award” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.