{{Short description|South Korean government award}} {{Infobox order |title=Order of Science and Technology Merit<br/>과학기술훈장 |image= |caption= |type=Order of merit |date=2011 |country=Republic of Korea |house= |religion= |ribbon= |head_title=President |first head= |grades= Changjo<br/>Hyeoksin<br/>Ungbi<br/>Doyak<br/>Jinbo |head=Lee Jae Myung |status=Currently awarded | higher= Order of Saemaeul Service Merit | lower= National Foundation Merit Medal |related=Science and Technology Merit Medal<br/>Order of Industrial Service Merit and Industrial Service Merit Medal (before 2001) |image2= |caption2= |notes= }}

The '''Order of Science and Technology Merit''' ({{Korean|hangul=과학기술훈장|hanja=科學技術勳章}}) is one of the Orders of Merit issued by South Korea. It is awarded to those who have rendered outstanding meritorious services in the interest of improving the science and technology.

This Order is the mostly newly organized order of the Republic of Korea. Before that order was established, Order of Industrial Service Merit had been bestowed to scientists and technologists.

==Classes of Science and Technology Merit== The Order of Science and Technology Merit is conferred in five classes: # 100px Changjo (Creation) 창조장 # 100px Hyeoksin (Reformation) 혁신장 # 100px Ungbi (Great Achievement) 웅비장 # 100px Doyak (Leap) 도약장 # 100px Jinbo (Progress) 진보장

===Other Orders of Merit=== There are three kinds of decoration awarded by the Republic of Korea. They are Orders, Medals of Merit, and Service Medals.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=UfsDAQAAIAAJ&q=cultural+merit+ ''Korea: its Land, People, and Culture of all Ages,'' pp. 145-146.]</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.sanghun.go.kr/pt/information/posangInfo.do?ctgryId=010202&cntntsSn=12 과학기술훈장(科學技術勳章, Order of Science and Technology Merit]. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080125071527/http://home.earthlink.net/~dfifer/index.htm Republic of Korea's Orders of Merit]

{{Honors and decorations of South Korea}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Science and Technology, Order}} Science and Technology Merit