In the article by Lee et al. published in Journal of Microbiology 2016; 54, 809–813, The KCTC accession number KCTC 18866T in abstract and foot note should be corrected to KCTC 33839T. The sentence in abstract should have read: Based on the phylogenetic, phenotypic, and chemotaxonomic data, strain 16MFT21T (=KCTC 33839T =JCM 31664T). The species description in foot note should have read: The NCBI GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 16MFT21T (=KCTC 33839T =JCM 31664T) is KX753358. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused.