Professor Hong Jeong-pyo (College of Arts, Department of Industrial Design) has been elected as the next president of the Korean Society of Design, the country’s largest academic organization related to design.

Professor Hong was unanimously nominated by the Presidential Nominating Committee at the 2012 Autumn International Conference of the Korean Society of Design, held recently at Ewha Womans University.

Accordingly, Professor Hong will begin a two-year term as president in 2014 and will lead efforts to advance the academic development of design research in Korea.

Professor Hong expressed his aspiration, saying, "As Korea's largest design-related academic organization, the Korean Society of Design will broaden its role in design research and work to strengthen the Society's function in public-sector and social design. We will also seek to support professional designers and to enhance exchanges with international societies."

Currently serving as vice president of the Korean Society of Design, Professor Hong graduated from Chung-Ang University and its graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Chiba University in Japan. He has served as an invited artist and juror of the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition and as a juror for the National Skills Competition. His awards include the Chairman's Award from the Federation of Korean Industries at the Korea Industrial Design Exhibition, the GOOD DESIGN Minister of Communications Award, and the Korean Society of Design's Outstanding Paper Award.