Park Se-hoon, Director of the Center for Basic Liberal Education (56, Department of Education; photo), was elected the 42nd president of the Korean Association for Educational Administration.

The term of President-elect Park, elected by votes of the association's regular members, begins in January 2014 and lasts for one year.

Park said, "I will do my utmost for the development of the Korean Association for Educational Administration, including strengthening the association's standing, improving the quality of its journal, and promoting interdisciplinarity, internationalization, and regionalization in educational administration."

Park graduated from the Department of Education and earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He served as a professor at Kongju National University of Education and as a visiting professor at Boise State University. Since 1993, he has served as a professor in the Department of Education and as Director of the Center for Basic Liberal Education.

Meanwhile, the Korean Association for Educational Administration, founded in 1967, is a leading national association in the field of educational administration. It has carried out a variety of activities for the development of educational administration theory and the improvement of education, and has continued to facilitate communication among members and academic exchange.