50 Years as a Woman Chemist in South Korea.

B In her guest editorial b , Prof. Myunghyun Paik Suh reflects on her 50-year-long career devoted to chemistry, and the many challenges she had to overcome in order to become a world-leading scientist in South Korea. I devoted myself to studying chemistry and conducting chemical research for 50 years since I entered the department of chemistry, Seoul National University, in March 1967 as a college student until I eventually retired as a university professor in February 2017. For this, we both got admission from the University of Chicago, married at the age of 22, and went for the U.S. Since then, I had changed my maiden name, Myunghyun Paik, to Myunghyun P. Suh (MP Suh), which I have used as my international name in all my publications. There are many young chemists, in particular, many female chemists in the academic and industrial fields in Korea, and they are highly talented and active. [Extracted from the article]