Receiving the Outstanding Presentation Paper Award (우수발표논문상) at the 2026 Summer Conference of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (SAREK) was a very meaningful milestone in my Ph.D. journey. What made this experience especially memorable was that it was also my very first conference presentation delivered entirely in Korean. As an international Ph.D. student at Sungkyunkwan University, presenting technical research in Korean was both exciting