KIM Kyungmin

Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Seoul National University

KIM Kyungmin
Times of the Remarks 2025. 11. 13. 15:50-16:10
Title The Competitiveness of the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area Is the Competitiveness of Korea

Professor KIM Kyung-min earned his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Real Estate from Harvard University in 2008 and has been a faculty member in the Department of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, since 2009. His main research areas include housing market analysis using big data and artificial intelligence, real estate finance, and the provision of rental housing by non-profit private organizations.
He founded a social enterprise aimed at improving housing welfare for young people and revitalizing local economies, and served as Chair of the Social Innovation Public-Private Council at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety from 2017 to 2021. In 2019, he received a Presidential Citation for his contributions to social innovation.
His major publications include Making Gyeongseong the Architecture Capital (2017), Rethinking Seoul (2013), and Urban Development Lost Its Way (2011), and he publishes annual books on real estate trends.