The APEC Climate Center (APCC) held an annual New Year Ceremony for the year 2022 on January 3, 2022.

This ceremony was held to celebrate the hard work of APCC’s employees during the year 2021 and to look forward to 2022.

During the ceremony, the following awards were distributed: the Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Paper Award, Outstanding Employee Award.

APCC’s Acting Executive Director, Dr. Jin Ho Yoo said, "I really appreciate all of the hard work you have done in the year of 2021. Let's do our best to achieve even better performance and further the development of APCC in 2022 based on our achievements in 2021".

■ Outstanding Service Award: “Improvement of Operational Long-range Forecast Guidance Reflecting the Climatological Standard Normal Change and the Latest Research Results”

- Dr. Sae–Rim Yeo (Research Fellow)

- Dr. Seul-Hee Im (Research Fellow)

- Dr. Seontae Kim (Research Fellow)

- Dr. Boksoon Myoung (Research Fellow)

- Ms. Eun-Jeong Lee (Researcher)

■ Outstanding Paper Award: “Two distinct modes of tropical convection structure and associated climate variability over East Asia/Korea in January.”

- Dr. Sae–Rim Yeo (Research Fellow)

- Dr. WonMoo Kim (Research Fellow)

■ Outstanding Employee Award:

- Dr. Yun-Young Lee (Research Fellow)

- Mr. Soonjo Yoon (Researcher)

- Mr. Junmin Yoo (Staff)

■ 10-Year Service Plaque:

- Dr. Woo-Seop Lee (Head, Climate Analytics Department)

- Ms. Sangwon Moon (Head, External Affairs Department)

- Dr. Sun-Hee Shin (Research Fellow, Prediction Research Department)

- Dr. Kyungwon Park (Research Fellow, Prediction Research Department)