Korean Speaking Working Group

Membership of the Korean Speaking Working Group (KSWG) is open to all Korean speaking members of the ISFG. There will be no other membership fee in addition to that payable to the ISFG. The purpose of the KSWG is (1) to be a conduit of communication between Korean speaking individuals who are interested in forensic genetics, and (2) to contribute to the forensic community by working on projects which need multi-institute participation including a QA/QC program, and (3) to facilitate academic improvement of members through cooperation, and (4) to be a channel for international exchange in the forensic genetics community.

News

The KSWG could not hold a meeting in 2022, but plan to co-host a meeting, "The 7th International Symposium on Forensic DNA in Law", in Seoul on May 10, 2023, with the Supreme Prosecutors' Office. Topics are metabarcording for species identification and DNA methylation profiling for mixture analysis and age prediction.

Past meetings

The KSWG scientific meeting was held online on November 23, 2021 with the support of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office of Korea and the Korean National Police Agency. Past, present and future of forensic genetics in Korea and forensic epigenetics were the main focus. We appreciate the contribution of Dr. Wojciech Branicki (Jagiellonian University, Poland) and Dr. Jana Naue (University of Freiburg, Germany) to our meeting KSWG 2021. We have not decided on the next meeting, but we hope to have an offline meeting in the second half of 2022.

History

The Korean Speaking Working Group was proposed and approved during the general assembly at the 24th World Congress of the ISFG, September 2011, in Vienna, Austria. The members of the board are as follows:

Executive Board

Chairman

Vice Chairman

Secretary