In 2000, Chung was honored with the Moran Medal of the Order of Civil Merit and received the Scientific Engineer of the Month award in October 2004 for developing evaluation technology for vacuum characteristics. In 2005 she became the first woman to serve as president of the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, and served a three-year term. In 2008, she was chosen by the Korea Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology as the Woman Scientist/Engineer of the Year Award and was elected to membership in the International Committee for Weights and Measures (French : Comité international des poids et mesures, CIPM) headquartered in France. From 2009 to 2013, she was president of the Graduate School of Analytical Science and Technology of Chungnam National University and was elected to serve a 3-year term as president of the Korea Basic Science Institute in 2013.