Mr. Kyung-Koo Han is a cultural anthropologist trained at Seoul National University (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.). He taught anthropology at Kangwon National University and helped develop the Division of International Studies at Kookmin University as its dean. In 2009, he joined the newly founded College of Liberal Studies of Seoul National University and served as its dean until recently.
Mr. Han has served as Chair of the Policy Planning Committee of the Korea Federation for the Environmental Movement, and has been a member of the Presidential Commission for Sustainable Development and the Culture Committee of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO.
He has also served on the editorial boards of the Korea Journal, Sahoewa yeoksa (Society and History), and Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, and was Editor of Hanguk munhwa inryuhak (Korean Cultural Anthropology) and of the Korean Social Science Journal. Mr. Han was President of the Korean International Migration Association, the Korean Society for the Education for International Understanding, and the Association for the Studies of Koreans Abroad, as well as Vice President of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology and the Korean Society for Environmental Sociology.