Dae Sik Kim

Much has been written about Dr. Dae Sik Kim and his many inventions and achievements in obituaries, on Wikipedia (for his oil viscosity testing equipment) and on various websites (including Enbede.com (http://www.enbede.com/DS-Kim.htm ), iprsinc.org (http://www.iprsinc.org/IPRS_InvHighlight1.htm) as well as his own company´s website. https://www.kimatlab.com/ .

While the full significance of some of his inventions have yet to be realized, he is among good company of those inventor/entrepreneurs whose inventions took decades or even centuries after their departure to be acknowledged and implemented.

He will be remembered for his stories full of candor and insights as well as for his concern for the environment offering solutions to major problems despite their potentially disruptive impact on current ways of "doing business." But, perhaps Dr. Kim will be remembered best by independent inventors who benefitted from his counsel and support over the more than 30 years he was involved with the Inventors Association of New England (IANE) that met monthly at MIT. Thank you Dr. Kim for your life-long commitment to inventing and to inventors.

Dr. Donald Job, worked with Dr. Kim on various projects including serving inventors of IANE for more than 30 years. He now resides in North Carolina where he continues his own inventing addressing both medical and environmental needs.

Dr. Kim was a charismatic and Brilliant thinker and inventor.
I and my colleague Mario Bocabella are deeply saddened by his death.

May his memory be a blessing.

Prof. Jack Nusan Porter
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Center Associate
Harvard University
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I have known Dr, Kim for over 40 years. We have spent many hours talking with me thoroughly enjoying his stories. I got as much joy in listening to them as he enjoyed telling them. What a great humanitarian! He devoted his life to improve mankind and he certainly did that with me. I am a much better person for spending time with him. I wish his family strength and happiness. We are all so grateful to you for sharing Dr. Kim with us.

Mario Boccabella

I met Doc in 1994 when I came to work at The Coffee Corner. I never would have guessed I would be there 21yrs. Therefore a long lasting evolution of a friendship developed. As anyone who knew him knows, He was The quirkiest, most creative and funny man. He would pop in at least 3 times a day and hang out with the regulars. I hadn't seen him much in recent years but We did talk on the phone regularly. He told me to come visit soon and I am sorry that I didn't get a chance to see him again. We always think we have time-don't we?
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