Korean genome refers to the first Korean human genome sequenced and publicized in December 2008. The donor of the genome is Dr. Seong-Jin Kim who was once the director of the Lee Gilya Cancer and Diabetes Institute (LCDI) in Korea. It was the second Asian genome sequenced after YH (Dr. Yang Huanming's). The research paper on the first genome was published in Genome Research May 26, 2009. The analysis details have been available from . The project was a result of a joint research among LCDI, the Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC), and the National Reference Standards Data Institute of Korea (NRSDI). The name of the genome was called KOREF until it was changed to SJK. SJK was registered in NCBI on March 2, 2009 and publicly available since then. The location of the data is: ftp://bioftp.org/BiO/Store/Genome/.
The second Korean genome was published in ' July 8, 2009 by a Korean sequencing team and an analysis team (NCGR, New Mexico) in the US.
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