Kilnam Chon

Kilnam Chon (born January 3, 1943) is a South Korean computer scientist widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to the development of the internet in South Korea. His work led to South Korea becoming the second country in the world, after the United States, to establish an IPv4 network connection, and he is often called the father of the Korean Internet, playing a key role in connecting Seoul National University and the Korea Institute of Electronics Technology in May 1982. He earned a bachelor degree in electrical engineering from Osaka University in 1965 and a master and doctorate in systems engineering from UCLA, and he served as a professor of computer science at KAIST from 1982 to 2008.