Professor Sang-Hyun Lee of the Department of Forest Environmental Science at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) (President Yang Oh-bong) was inaugurated as the 26th President of the Korean Forest Science Society at the recently held 65th Joint Conference on Forest Science and General Assembly. His term is two years.

The Korean Forest Science Society (formerly the Korean Society of Forestry), founded in 1960, is the longest-established society in the field of forest science in Korea. It represents the national forest sector with some 160 institutional members and over 1,000 individual members.

Professor Lee, who assumed the presidency of the Korean Forest Science Society, received his Ph.D. from the University of Canterbury and has served as a professor in the Department of Forest Environmental Science at JBNU since 1999.

He has also served as a research professor at the University of Washington, a member of the Government Work Evaluation Committee of the Prime Minister's Office, a central advisory committee member for the Korea Forest Service's Mountain Village Promotion Program, an advisory professor at the National Forest Survey Center of the Korea Federation of Forest Cooperatives, and a policy evaluation committee member of the Korea Forest Service. He currently serves as a member of the Forest R&D Committee under the Forest Science and Technology Committee.

Professor Sang-Hyun Lee said, “I will do my utmost to internationalize the society's journal, achieve the society's founding goals, make sustained efforts to nurture the next generation of scholars, and contribute to society.”