[Interview with Professor Song Oh Yoon] First Female Faculty Inaugurated as a Management Board

Q. You are the first female faculty to be inaugurated as a management board of KUBS. What is your impression on this?

I understand that the phrase ‘first female member’ might sound like a special issue but I personally do not feel much things from it, and I just feel that I should be highly responsible for this role. From now on, I should focus on the ways to contribute in KUBS management and to preserve the legacy of KUBS, which has been stacked up by a lot of great faculty members and students.

Recently I find a lot of female talents taking the leadership in business, and the society is changing to embrace the growth of female leadership. Having been working in KUBS, I haven’t experienced any discriminations between male and female members, so that I haven’t realized that I am the first female faculty member who was appointed as a board.

Nevertheless, no matter how I personally feel about the title ‘first female board’, I believe the key issue in a female joining the leadership group of KUBS is to direct us to pursue diversity in management. It is clear that our society can now easily find out diversity as a quantitative measure, but I think we have much things to solve when it comes to the qualitative diversity. For the prosperity of organization, improving the quality of diversity is very important and I believe the other board members are resonated with its context.

Q. Please introduce your role and concentration for your term in office.

My position is a vice-president in research, and my role has 5 big categories:  △Faculty Research Support △ Campus Internalization △ Management of Career Development Center △ Management of Start-up Institute △ Observation of Domestic and Global Ranking of KUBS.

I have lots of concentrations in different fields but I’ll strive to balance my workloads in order to work for every part of school where my support is needed. My primary concentration will be on broadening the foundation of KUBS’s research infrastructure. Second, I’ll be striving to support the departments that are working for international businesses, such as AACSB, Outbound Research, Internships.

Another important division in KUBS is Career Development Center, where students can search for diversified career paths and develop their experience in outside work spaces. At last, KUBS Startup Center will open up further startup opportunities for students who are interested in developing their own business and services.

Q. Please share your plans and goals as a female leadership in KUBS.
  

KUBS is an elephant organization that manages thousands of students, 80+ faculty members, and about 40 administrative officers. Making developments in KUBS cannot be done by the efforts from 5 leadership board itself but it will be possible when all the members are trying their best to advance the value of KUBS with a huge proud of ourselves in mind. Therefore, I will do my best in improving the qualitative infrastructure so that students and other staffs can develop their own pride in KUBS community so forth.

At last, I personally hope a ‘female leadership’ to become a non-special title in KUBS, and I wish KUBS to become a place where everyone can realize their dreams no matter who they are and where they from. In that way, KUBS becoming a global leading business school will not be just a dream but a real objective that we can soon achieve.