Choi, MyungCheol

(Ph.D. in Business (Human Resource Management & Strategy Management), Tsinghua University, China).

Before joining Gachon, he was an assistant professor at CheJu Halla and Baeseok University.
His research interests include Organizational Behavior, Leadership, Work Value, Cultural Intelligence, Chinese Economy, Chinese Business and Cross Cultural Management. His work has appeared in Science of Science and Management of S&T(CSSCI), International Business Management, The Journal of Sinology, The Journal of Chinese Studies, The Journal of Human Resource Management, The Review of Business History and elsewhere.

Chun, Sungju

(Ph.D. in Business (Finance), Boston University)

Before joining Gachon, he worked as a research fellow in the Korea Insurance Research Institute. His research interests include empirical asset pricing, investments, applied financial econometrics, and international finance. His works have appeared in Journal of Empirical Finance, Applied Economics, Journal of Money and Finance, and Journal of Insurance and Finance.

Han, Joo-Hee

(Ph.D. in Business (International Business), Ewha Womans University)

Before joining Gachon, she was a research professor at Ewha Womans University and had years of experience as a lecturer. Her research interests include corporate governance, boards of directors, CEO, top management teams (TMTs), executive compensation, strategic change, and collective intelligence. Her works have appeared in Journal of Strategic Management, East and West Studies, Journal of Information Technology Applications & Management, and The Korean Journal of Human Resource Management and so on.

Hwang, Sungsik

(Ph.D. in Management Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

He is a CPA licensed in Korea and US. Before joining Gachon, he worked as a CPA profession at PwC (formerly C&L) for 26 years, and then worked as a CFO for Kyobo Life Insurance for 4 years, and worked as a CEO/CFO for Samchully for 9 years. He also served as a board member of Korea Accounting Standards Board(KASB), and as a member of Accounting Review Committee of Financial Supervisory Service. He is teaching Accounting and Auditing, and is interested in Future Accounting issues relating to non-financial reporting as well as AI and blockchain issues.

Jeon, Seongmin

(Ph.D. in Business (Management Information Systems), Seoul National University)

Prior to Gachon, he served for IBM and Samsung as an e-business consultant and had an experience to found his own company. He has two major areas of expertise: 1) empirical analysis on electronic marketplace, and 2) the use of data science methods to extract, process, and analyze online data. His works have been published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Interactive Marketing, Information & Management, Electronic Commerce Research Analysis and Carbon Management.

Jin, Shanyue

(Ph.D. in Business (Finance), Yonsei University)

Before joining Gachon, she was an assistant professor at Kookmin University. Her research interests include corporate finance, corporate governance, investments and Chinese security market. Her work has appeared in Journal of management & rganization, Journal of Financial Studies, Management Research, Modern China Research, etc.

Jo, Sung Jun

(Ph.D. in Human Resource Development, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities)

Prior to joining to Gachon, he was a professor of management at Utica College, NY, USA. He had conducted several studies that applied social network analysis method. His research topics of interest include social capital, social network, collaboration in organization, and management history. Recently he has developed research in ethical issues in management ethics.

Kang, Seung-Wan

(Ph.D. in Business (Organizational Behavior), Yonsei University)

Before joining Gachon University, he was an assistant professor at Korea University (Sejong). He worked as a business professional in SK Telecom and Oracle for 15 years. His research interests include organizational behavior, eadership, and motivation. His work has appeared in Human Resource Management (Financial Times Top 50 Journal), Personnel Review, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Psychological Reports, and elsewhere.

Kim, Han-Eol

(Ph.D. in Business (Business Strategy), University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School))

His research and teaching interests are strategic management, innovation management, and global strategy. In particular, he is interested in the topic of innovation: industry evolution, disruptive innovation, business model innovation, BoP(base of the pyramid), and creativity. His research has been published in academic journals like Organization Science. Before joining Gachon in 2016, he served on the faculty of Australian Graduate School of Management (University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia), KDI School of Public Policy and Management, and Hongik University.

Kim, Hee Jin

(Ph.D. in Business (Marketing) Korea University)

Before joining Gachon, she worked as a brand manager in P&G Korea and Japan for 10 years. Her main research area includes buyer behavior, decision making and consumer evaluation of brands, products and promotional offers. She is particularly nterested in how non-central, contextual factors influence consumers’ choice and behavior. Her works have appeared in Marketing Letters and Psychological reports.

Kwon, Byungok

(Ph.D. in Philosophy/Logic, Ohio State University)

He is a certified human resources expert (SPHR, SHRM-SCP) with career emphasis on selection/assessment, performance management, leadership development, and corporate training. He worked as Head of HR for Kolon Industries, and later as Chief Learning Officer for CJ Group. Together, he has more than 12 years of executive level experience in human resources in leading chaebol companies in South Korea. He has joined Gachon University to share his professional experience and give counsel to aspiring students

Lee, Yong Joo

(Ph.D. in Business (Management Science), Columbia University at New York)

After he got Ph.D. degree from Columbia University, he worked in Daewoo Economic Research Institute as a head of Industrial Research Department and then worked as a professor in Ewha Womans University. He has joined the faculty of Gachon Universtiy in 2013. His research interests are in Mathematical Programming, Queueing Models and Simulation that are applied to various problems of industries. His works have been published in Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Expert Systems with Applicatons, Journal of Transport Policy and many others

Lee, Jae-Ram

(Ph.D. in Business (Finance), KAIST)

He has been studying market microstructure issues in the Korean index derivative markets. For example, he has demonstrated the common movement in KOSPI200 index futures and options markets and explored the performance of foreign investors. Additionally, he intends to explain the relationship between the inventory asset growth rate and stock return using the neoclassical model framework. His previous works have been published in Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Futures Markets, Asian Economic Journal, etc.

Lee, Hoseung

(Ph.D. in Mathematics, Vanderbilt University)

Before joining Gachon University this year, he has been working on mobile health, medical devices and bio/medical informatics for generating new cash cow at Samsung Electronics. The following are some of his achievements there

New business Incubation, Mobile health : Initiated the very first mobile health project on 2004 with Humana in US and by 2016, the annual revenue growth for mobile health is 12% on average.

S/W Development, Bio/Medical Informatics: Led the Bio/Medical Informatics Lab at Samsung SDS and built the DNA chip data analysis system and the solution for consumer genetic clinics with MSKCC at New York.

M&A, Medical device: Participated in the group-wide task force team for spawning medical device business and coined the strategic plan for securing ultrasound system in Korea, Medison.

He is currently teaching courses like, startup incubation, entrepreneurship, new product development and venture management. Also he tries to establish couple of Blockchain startups by the end of this year or early next year.

Song, Bomi

(Ph.D. in Business Administration (Accounting), Seoul National University)

Before joining Gachon, she worked at the accounting firm, Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Seoul. Her research interests are primarily in the areas of tax accounting, auditing and corporate governance. She received the grand prize at 2018 ‘Korean Accounting Journal’ Best Research Award, hosted by the Korean Accounting Association, and the grand prize at the 15th ‘Korean Management Review’ Best Research Award, hosted by the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration, in 2015. She is also a licensed CPA, and a member of the Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants (KICPA) and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

Song, Hayeon

(Ph.D. in Communication (Marketing Communication), University of Southern California)

Hayeon Song’s research area is marketing communication. She has investigated ways to use new media as persuasive vehicle and as information distributor in various settings including marketing, education, and health. Her most recent project has explored the effectiveness of VR (Virtual Reality) in marketing focusing on the theoretical concept of presence. Before joining Gachon, she was an associate professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Shim, Hyeongsop

(Ph.D. in Business (Finance), University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee)

His research and teaching interests are corporate finance and entrepreneurial (venture) finance: Capital Structure, Initial Public Offerings, Mergers and Acquisitions. His extended research interests encompass some topics in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: the impact of STEM PhD board directors on firm performance and the impact of internal consistency of CSR policy on credit rating. He has published articles in many academic journals such as Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Applied Economics Letters, Korean Journal of Accounting Research, International Review of Finance (forthcoming). He used to work at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) as assistant professor before he joined Gachon University in 2018.

Yoo, Jinyoung

(Ph.D. in Advertising (Marketing Communication), University of Texas at Austin)

Her research interests are in multicultural advertising, multicultural consumer behavior and psychology, consumer ethnocentrism, and international brand marketing. She has published articles in many academic journals such as Journal of Advertising, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of Marketing Communications, etc.

Shin, Il Hang

(Ph.D. in Business (Accounting), Yonsei University)

Before joining Gachon, he was an assistant professor at Chonbuk National University. He worked for Samil PwC and other accounting firms for 11 years. His primary research interests lie in accounting behavior in business group affiliation(chaebol). His works have been published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies and elsewhere. He is also a KICPA(a member of the Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants), a CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) and a CISA(Certified Information System Auditor)