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The path of chemistry in Korea

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Conducting scientific research in Korea has not always been easy. The country has made rapid progress in encouraging research, but how did it come to be able to hold its own on the world stage, and what could the future hold?

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  1. Taeghwan Hyeon is at the National Creative Research Initiative Center for Oxide Nanocrystalline Materials, School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea. thyeon@snu.ac.kr,

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Hyeon, T. The path of chemistry in Korea. Nature Mater 6, 541–543 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1973

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