Six new professors with excellent research capabilities have been newly appointed for the fall semester of 2009.
 

For several years, KUBS has been steadfastly trying to secure excellent faculty with the plan of becoming Asia’s premier business school. KUBS has secured 93 faculty members (84 full-time and 10 visiting) and 10 adjunct faculty members, totaling 103 faculty members. This is the largest faculty among universities in Korea.

Professor Li Yan received her PhD from the National University of Singapore in finance and also taught finance at the school. She was awarded the Best Dissertation Proposal in Financial Markets sponsored by The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.

Professor Kihoon Kim worked as consultant for the Korean office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (currently IBM Business Consulting Service), the global consulting firm, before receiving his PhD in operations management from Stanford University,

Professor Jae Yun Moon received her B.A. and MBA degree from the School of Business at Yonsei University. She received her PhD in management information system (MIS) from New York University. She has also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology as an assistant professor.

Professor Jongil So has worked at the Bank of Korea and Financial Supervisory Service. He received his PhD in finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While doing his Masters at New York University, he was invited to join BGS (Betta, Gamma, Sigma) which consists of top students from business schools accredited by AACSB (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

Professor Dongseop Lee received his PhD in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as an associate professor at the University of Tulsa and the College of Business Administration at Sogang University.

At 31, Professor Jinhee Choi is the youngest faculty member of KUBS. Professor Choi received her PhD in marketing from the University of Chicago. She was the recipient of the ‘Katherine Dusak Miller Ph D’ scholarship given to promising young researchers from the University of Chicago.

KUBS 2009 Fall recruitment - Breaking new records; the first, the youngest and the largest

For fall recruitment 2009, KUBS set new records by hiring the youngest faculty member, the first foreign faculty member and the largest female faculty.

KUBS hired the largest number of female faculty members. New faculty members include Professor Li Yan, the first Asian to be hired as full-time foreign faculty; Professor Jae Yun Moon, the first Yonsei University graduate to become a faculty member; Professor Jinhee Choi, KUBS’s youngest female faculty member.

Together with Professor Anat Zeelim Hovav, Professor Song Oh Yoon and Professor Inna G. Droubouchevitch, the new female faculty members will make up the six professors at KUBS, the largest female faculty in its history.

Johngsuk Bae, the Associate Dean of KUBS, said “With globalization taking place around the world and the creative convergence of disciplines, KUBS is trying to secure excellent faculty with diverse backgrounds. By recruiting these professors, we hope to achieve excellent research and academic results and provide our students with the opportunity to take diverse lectures.”