--- title: "Kyoung-Woon On — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Kyoung-Woon On: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyoung-woon-on/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyoung-woon-on/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kyoung-Woon On # Kyoung-Woon On Kyoung-Woon On has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Wonseok Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wonseok-hwang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5083499937) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5083499937) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083499937) · [571 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083499937&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyoung-woon-on/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 22 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyoung-woon-on/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9733](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/98/#star-9733) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Kyoung-Woon+On) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kyoung-Woon+On) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kyoung-Woon+On) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kyoung-Woon+On) ## Affiliations [🎓**Seoul National University** Seoul · South Korea 2015–2021 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/seoul-national-university/) · [🏢**Kakao Brain** Seongnam-si · South Korea 2021–2024 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/017agdj19) · [🏢**Kakao Corporation** Jeju City · South Korea 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02kb2dn85) · [🎓**Seoul National University of Science and Technology** Seoul · South Korea 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/seoul-national-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Hongik University** Seoul · South Korea 2013 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00egdv862) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Legal AI · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyoung-woon-on/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyoung-woon-on/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Binary Classifier Optimization for Large Language Model Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jung-2025-binary-classifier-optimization-large-language/)** *(2025 · 26 citations)* Deployed chat assistants mostly gather simple thumbs-up/thumbs-down ratings. Standard alignment methods such as RLHF and DPO, however, need pairs of a preferred and a dispreferred response. Jung et al. (Kakao Corp) offer a theoretical bridge between the two. They show that a binary classifier whose logit is the… 2. **[Korean Canonical Legal Benchmark: Toward Knowledge-Independent Evaluation of LLMs' Legal Reasoning Capabilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oh-2026-korean-canonical-legal-benchmark-knowledge/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Legal tasks mix domain knowledge with reasoning, so it is hard to tell whether an LLM fails because it lacks legal facts or because it reasons poorly. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Wonseok Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wonseok-hwang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyoung-woon-on/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026