Speaker
HUH Hyangjin
Affliation
Jeju National University
Title
President
Session

Biography

President Huh is an educator in the field of tourism as well as a university administrator. After being appointed as the 8th President of Jeju National University, he has been reappointed and is serving a consecutive term as the 9th President. President Huh obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in the Tourism Department at Jeju National University and proceeded to obtain his master’s in Tourism Management at Kyunghee University, and his doctorate from Sejong University in Business Administration. Before his presidential office, he became a tenured lecturer starting from March 1984 at the Department of Tourism Management of Jeju National University. Since then, he has worked in various positions such as the Dean of the College of Economics and Commerce, Chairman of the Jeju National University Council, Director of the Jeju Development Institute, Committee Member of the Presidential Committee on Regional Development, and as the Chairperson of the Korean University Accreditation Institute (KUAI) within the Korean Council for University Education (KCUE). He was also the president of the 5th OCU (Open Cyber University) Consortium and the 22nd president of the Korean Council for University Education. Currently, he is serving as the Committee Member of the 2nd University Education Reform Policy Advisory Committee for the Ministry of Education.