ETRI Journal is a bimonthly journal published by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in Daejeon, South Korea. The purpose of this journal is to report and disseminate innovative technologies and knowledge in the fields of information, telecommunications, and electronics. ETRI Journal began publication in 1979 in Korean, and to establish itself as an international journal, converted to an all-English publication in 1993. In 1996 ETRI Journal began to be indexed by ISI in SCIE, and since 1998 it has appeared in SCI. ETRI was the fourth IT organizaition in the world to publish a journal covered in SCI. ETRI Journal was the first Korean SCI journal in the IT field and it remains the only Korean SCI journal in this field.