Kim Sangwook is a professor of physics at Kyunghee University. He is a kind-hearted physicist who loves art and enjoys visiting art museums. He received his doctoral degree in physics at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Society in Germany and was also a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and the University of Innsbruck. He mainly studies quantum information science and has published over seventy research papers in SCI journals. He actively communicates scientific ideas to the public, appearing on the TV shows The Dictionary of Useless Knowledge Season 3 and Friday Joy Package, which both aired on tvN. He has written a series of contributions for the daily newspapers, Dong-a Ilbo and Kyunghyang Shinmun, and he also served as the head of the Science Culture Committee at the Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics.

His books include 『Kim Sangwook’s Quantum Studies』, 『Trembling and Resonance』, and『 Kim Sangwook’s Science Studies』.