Dr. Kye-Hoon John Kim earned BS and MS in Agricultural Chemistry at Seoul National University in Korea, and a Ph.D. in Agronomy majoring in soil conservation at the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia in USA. He worked for two years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a postdoctoral research fellow. His six year’s work for the Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety (KINS) as a senior researcher significantly influenced his interests in environmental issues. Later, he joined the University of Seoul as a Professor of Soil Science in 1997 and since then worked extensively in issues related with remediation of contaminated soils. He was also a visiting scholar at the Integrated Waste Management Centre, Cranfield University, UK in 2005. His current research interests and projects are in: remediation of contaminated soils, especially in the urban areas; contaminated soil management within the risk assessment framework; agricultural use of by-product gypsum; strategic management of cemeteries to prevent groundwater contamination; and application of fugacity modelling to the soil environment. He has been working as a chair of commission 3.4 Soil Engineering and Technology since 2006. Currently we, division chair, chair and vice-chair of commission 3.4, are planning to organize a symposium/workshop on soil engineering and some related issues in 2008. Potential topics for the symposium/workshop are 'soil heat storage for cooling and heating of buildings' and 'capacity of soils for storm water infiltration' or similar