KUBS Professor Dongwon Kim elected as the new president of Korea University

KUBS Professor Dongwon Kim was elected as the 21^st president of Korea University.

Educational foundation Korea University Foundation (Chairman=Jaeho Kim) held the board of directors meeting in Korea University Seoul Campus Inchon Memorial Hall and elected Professor Dongwon Kim as the new KU president. The president-candidate recommendation committee recommended 3 final candidates to the board of directors after votes on 6 candidates who passed the preliminary examination.

Professor Kim graduated from Korea University Business School in 1982 and received a master’s and doctorate in labor and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin Madison, United States. He began his position as a KUBS professor in 1997 and went through the Office of General Affairs Director · Office of Planning & Budget Director · Dean of Graduate School of Labor Studies · Dean of Korea University Business School · Dean of Graduate School of Business Administration and etc. For external positions, he was the chairman of the Employment&Labor Policy Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, executive director of the Korea ILO Association, chairman of the International Labor and Employment Relations Association (ILERA), international director of KEDGE Business School in France.  

Professor Kim proposed 7 tasks including ‘Contribution to future society’, ‘Sound finance’, ‘Innovative research’, ‘Leading education’, ‘Efficient administration, and ‘Serving leadership’ in this presidential election. For further details, he proposed ▲Securing funds for the KU 120^th anniversary and government financial support budget ▲Improving the competitiveness of auxiliary institutions such as the Institute of Foreign Language Studies and Institute for Continuing Education ▲Expanding undergraduate·graduate school education programs with large companies ▲Introduce research·education mileage system ▲Construct new buildings for College of Liberal Arts and College of Political Science and Economics ▲Establish committee on balanced development between campus, etc. The 4-year term as new president begins on March 1^st, 2023, and ends on February 28^th, 2027.