Park to head Academic Society of Business Administration

Park Heung-soo

Park Heung-soo, professor of marketing at Yonsei University, will be inaugurated as chairman of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration in a ceremony at LG-POSCO Hall of Korea University in Seoul on Friday.

Park graduated from the college of business administration of Yonsei University, and acquired an MBA from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in management from the University of Pittsburgh before joining the Yonsei faculty in 1988.

Established in 1956, the society is one of the nation’s largest academic groups, with about 7,000 members.

(swchun@heraldcorp.com)