Four members of the Korean delegation won gold medals and took first place overall at the International Olympiad in Informatics. This is the first time that all members of the Korean delegation have received gold medals since participating in the International Olympiad in Informatics in 1992.
The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity (KOSAC) announced on the 5th that students Byun Jae-woo (Gyeonggi Science High School, 2nd year), Woo Min-gyu (Seoul Science High School, 3rd year), Lee Yoo-chan (Gyeonggi Science High School, 3rd year), and Jeong Min-chan (Korea Science Academy, 2nd year) won gold medals at the 37th International Olympiad in Informatics held in Sucre, Bolivia from 27th of last month to the 3rd. Woo Min-gyu achieved a near-perfect score, ranking 2nd in the world for individual performance. Byun Jae-woo is the son of Dr. Byeon Myeong-gwang, who won a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1990.
This year's International Olympiad in Informatics had 330 students from 84 countries participating. The students solved three computer programming problems for five hours each day over two days. Each problem was worth 100 points, with a total of 600 points available. Problems included greedy algorithms, graph theory, and square root decomposition.
Kim Seong-yeol, chairman of the Korea Information Science Education Association and the Korea Olympiad in Informatics, said, "I am proud of the students' abilities demonstrated on the world stage." The Korean delegation plans to participate in the International Science Olympiad in the fields of Earth science and astronomy.