The research laboratory of Professor Sang-hyun Lee of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Forest Environmental Science at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) has achieved the result that three graduate students were appointed as faculty members at flagship national universities, including Gyeongsang National University, over the past five years.

In Professor Lee's laboratory, starting in 2017 with the Department of Forest Resources at Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology (now the School of Forest Environmental Sciences at Gyeongsang National University), followed by the Department of Forest Resources at Chonnam National University in 2019, and in September of this year at the School of Forest Environmental Sciences at Gyeongsang National University, three graduate students were appointed as professors.

All of the appointed professors are undergraduate alumni of JBNU, and two earned both their master's and doctoral degrees at JBNU, demonstrating the stature and capabilities of JBNU's graduate school.

For twenty years, Professor Sang-hyun Lee has incorporated scientific and creative English academic writing into his laboratory training to enhance graduate students' research skills and has been mentoring students in this practice.

He also supports all graduate students' participation in international conferences and accompanies students on overseas research trips so they can broaden their perspectives through international exchange.

Professor Lee said, "JBNU students possess unlimited growth potential, and I have always considered how much of that potential can be drawn out. I think the results are emerging because we have conducted many Socratic-style question-and-answer discussions, without regard to time or place, to stimulate diverse ideas on graduate students' research topics."

Meanwhile, Professor Lee serves as president of the Korean Society of Forest Management and Information and as vice president of the Korean Society of Forest Science. As the role of forests becomes increasingly important due to global warming, he is conducting national research—such as improving the age-class composition of forests to address the socially prominent issue of reduced carbon dioxide absorption caused by aging forests in Korea, and carbon management of forests in South and North Korea—to cultivate the next generation of scholars.