The APEC Climate Center (APCC) held an annual New Year Ceremony (hybrid in-person and virtual meeting) for the year 2021 on January 4, 2021.

This ceremony was held to celebrate the hard work of APCC’s employees during the year 2020 and to look forward to 2021.

During the ceremony, the following awards were distributed: the Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Paper Award, Outstanding Employee Award, and the 10-Year Service Plaque.

APCC’s Executive Director, Dr. Won-Tae Kwon said, "I really appreciate all of the hard work you have done in the year of 2020. Let's do our best to achieve even better performance and further the development of APCC in 2021 based on our achievements in 2020".

■ Outstanding Service Award: “Development of Comprehensive and Relative Evaluating Weekly Mean DYnamical ForecasT (CREDYT)”

- Dr. Yun-Young Lee (Research Fellow)

- Ms. Gayoung Kim (Researcher)

■ Outstanding Paper Award: The non-linear relationship between the western North Pacific anticyclonic circulation and Korean summer precipitation on subseasonal timescales. Climate Dynamics, 54(525-541)

- Dr. Sae–Rim Yeo (Research Fellow)

■ Outstanding Employee Award:

- Dr. Yun-Young Lee (Research Fellow)

- Mr. Chang-Mook Lim (Researcher)

- Ms. Bo Ra Kim (Senior International Project Manager)

■ 10-Year Service Plaque:

- Dr. Jin-Ho Yoo (Director, Climate Services and Research Division)

- Dr. Ok-Yeon Kim (Research Fellow)