CNCF award winner glad to contribute to Korea’s breakthrough in open-source cloud ecosystem

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute senior researcher and special fellow Son Seok-ho said he is glad to contribute to Korea’s breakthrough in the global open-source cloud ecosystem, Friday. He won the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Community Awards 2025, the highest honor in the cloud-native open-source world, becoming the first Korean to win the award. The award was presented during KubeCon and CloudNativeCon North America 2025, held in Atlanta, Ga., in November of last year. “I hope my contribution would bolster Korea’s open-source capabilities and leadership, strengthening the country’s technological sovereignty amid intensifying global artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing.” The awards are chosen from around 270,000 global contributors. Individuals who have made outstanding contributions across project development, documentation and community governance are selected. Son was honored in the Lorem Ipsum category, a renamed version of the previous top documentarian award, reflecting his continuous and meaningful contributions to multiple CN