Professor Park Se-hun (Department of Education) has been appointed Director of the newly established Center for Basic Liberal Education. The Center was created to strengthen educational competitiveness through the establishment of foundational education.

President Seo Geo-seok presented the appointment letter to Professor Park Se-hun on the morning of April 2 and asked him to devote himself to strengthening students' foundational education.

Accordingly, Professor Park will serve a two-year term as Director of the Center for Basic Liberal Education. He will take the lead in developing, organizing, and operating the liberal education curriculum, researching and developing teaching and learning methods, and researching and developing e-learning content.

Professor Park said, "As the newly established Center for Basic Liberal Education is central to strengthening foundational education, which underpins students' educational competitiveness, its role and responsibilities are weighty. I will do my best to ensure that students learn creatively and that faculty teach well so that the university's educational competitiveness can be greatly enhanced."

The new Director Park graduated from the Department of Education at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) and completed his master's at the university's graduate school. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in the United States and was appointed as a professor at JBNU in 1999. He has served as Chair of the Department of Education and Director of Teacher Education in the College of Education, among other positions.