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Ham Ki-seon is the founder and president of Hanseo University.

His wife, Han Seung-hye, is a professor at Hanseo University and an obstetrician.

He is interested in making Hanseo University a specialized university in aerospace.

He was born on April 2, 1941 in Yesan, Chungcheongnam-do.

He graduated from Yesan Agricultural High School and the Su-do College of Medicine (currently Korea University College of Medicine).

He received his master's and doctoral degrees from Seoul National University Graduate School of Public Health.

After completing his plastic surgery residency at Baek Hospital, he served as a military officer in Vietnam.

He worked as a professor at the Catholic University College of Medicine and established Korea's first specialized plastic surgery hospital, O-In Plastic Surgery Hospital.

In 1989, he founded the Hamju Foundation and in 1992 established Hanseo University, where he became the chairman.

He became the president of Hanseo University in 2000.

He also served as the vice president of the Korean Red Cross.

He performed free surgeries for over 2,000 cleft palate patients.