page_title: Institute for Basic Science
hierarchical_section_title: Institute for Basic Science
caption_attribution_description: English: Institute for Basic Science in Daejeon, South Korea prior to the relocation in winter 2017. 한국어: 대한민국 대전광역시 기초과학연구원
context_page_description: The Institute for Basic Science is a Korean government-funded research institute that conducts basic science research and relevant pure basic research. IBS was established in November 2011 by the Lee Myung-bak administration as a research institute, later be a core of the International Science and Business Belt upon relocation of their headquarters from a rented property to their own campus in January 2018 using land reclaimed from the Taejŏn Expo '93 in Expo Science Park. Comprising 30 research centers with 68 research groups across the nation and a headquarters in Daejeon, IBS has approximately 1,800 researchers and doctoral course students. Around 30% of the researchers are from countries outside of South Korea. The organization is under the Ministry of Science and ICT.
  In 2011, the Korean government announced an investment of more than 2 trillion KRW to build a heavy ion accelerator facility, named RAON, in northern Daejeon by 2021. The facility, if completed on time, is expected to be the world's first device using both the isotope separator on line and in-flight methods.
context_section_description: The Institute for Basic Science (IBS; Korean: 기초과학연구원) is a Korean government-funded research institute that conducts basic science research and relevant pure basic research. IBS was established in November 2011 by the Lee Myung-bak administration as a research institute, later be a core of the International Science and Business Belt (ISBB) upon relocation of their headquarters from a rented property to their own campus in January 2018 using land reclaimed from the Taejŏn Expo '93 in Expo Science Park. Comprising 30 research centers with 68 research groups across the nation and a headquarters in Daejeon, IBS has approximately 1,800 researchers and doctoral course students. Around 30% of the researchers are from countries outside of South Korea. The organization is under the Ministry of Science and ICT.
  In 2011, the Korean government announced an investment of more than 2 trillion KRW (roughly US$2 billion) to build a heavy ion accelerator facility, named RAON, in northern Daejeon by 2021. The facility, if completed on time, is expected to be the world's first device using both the isotope separator on line (ISOL) and in-flight (IF) methods.
  From December 2018, the IBS Center for Climate Physics, headed by Axel Timmermann, began to utilize a 1.43-petaflop Cray XC50 supercomputer, named Aleph, for climate physics research.
caption: Institute for Basic Science prior to relocation in January 2018.
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