Awards：
1989 The 1st KRISS scientific paper award.
1994 Selected as "KRISS Research Fellow" (1st term)
1995 The Presidential award (The 28th science day)
1995 The 1st Chuibong Award
1997 Selected as "KRISS Research Fellow" (2nd term)
1999 Recipient of the Scientist of July "The Award for the Scientist of the Month"
(Host: KOSEF and Seoul Economic Newspaper).
2000 Selected as "KRISS Research Fellow" (3rd term)
2002 Selected as a Regular Member of the Korea Advanced Academic Association
2004 Selected as Senior Editor of Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
2005 KCS-Aldrich Award (Korea Chemical Society, Sigma-Aldrich)
2006 10th Korea Science Award in Chemistry (Presidential Award)
2006 Star Faculty Award (The Ministry of Education and Human Resources)
2007 1st Underwood Professor (Named Endowed Chair Professor of Yonsei Univ.)
2008 Selected as Advisory Board Member of Journal of Physical Chemistry
2010 Video Perspectives "Defining Spectroscopic Features of Heteroannulenic Antiaromatic Porphyrinoids (J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1, 895–900)", Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
2010 Yonsei University Science Award (Yonsei Univ.)
2010 2nd Underwood Professor (Named Endowed Chair Professor of Yonsei Univ.)
2013 3rd Underwood Professor (Named Endowed Chair Professor of Yonsei Univ.)
2016 4th Underwood Professor (Named Endowed Chair Professor of Yonsei Univ.)
2017 The 4th FILA Basic Science Award (The Korean Academy of Science and Technology)
2017 Order of Science and Technology Merit "Doyak Medal" (Ministry of Science and ICT)
2018 2018 Academic Excellence Prize (Korean Chemical Society)
2019 The Japanese Photochemistry Association Honda-Fujishima Lectureship Award