Yunsoung Kim is a Research Fellow at Green Energy Strategy Institute which mainly concerns renewable energy systems, their socio-economic benefits, and electricity market reform for the energy transition. Ever since she received her Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Seoul National University in 2008, she has been working in the climate change and renewable energy sector. Her interests include acceptance and legislation of renewable energy, cities' energy systems, SDGs related to climate change, and renewable energy cooperation strategies on the Korean Peninsula. Recently, she served as a working group leader on K-SDGs(SDG7, and 13) organized by the Ministry of Environment, and was a member of the ‘Carbon Neutrality Committee’ of Presidential Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Villages