Professor Hyung-Ho Kim: Korean experience in lymphadenectomy for early gastric cancer

Prof. Hyung-Ho Kim (Figure 1), Chairman & Professor of Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, is an outstanding laparoscopic surgeon. His main interest is minimal invasive surgery especially in laparoscopic surgery, and lymph node metastasis in early gastric cancer. Prof. Kim reported the very first case of laparoscopic surgery in early gastric cancer in Korea. He is the principal investigator of the first multicenter study (KLASS-01 study) in the world to evaluate the feasibility of laparoscopic surgery in early gastric cancer.