Life Summary
Hong Won-hwa is the president of Kyungpook National University.

He was born on April 4, 1963, in Yecheon, Gyeongbuk.

He graduated from Daegu Kyungwon High School and Kyungpook National University's Department of Architectural Engineering. He obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in architecture from Waseda University in Japan.

He worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo and as a senior researcher at Waseda University before being appointed as a professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Kyungpook National University in 1999.

He served as the Director of External Cooperation, Director of Industry-Academic Research, and Dean of the Graduate School of Industry before being appointed president in 2020.

He has been active as a member of the Presidential Commission on Architecture Policy, head of the Disaster Safety Technology Development Project under the Ministry of Public Safety and Security, and vice chairman of the University Architecture Society.

As of January 2024, he is a member of the Basic Research Project Promotion Committee of the Ministry of Science and ICT, chairman of the Daegu Technopark Foundation, and a member of the Presidential National Education Commission.

He has also served as the president of the Korean Council for University Education.

He is focused on establishing an innovation platform for education and research. He is committed to leading regional development through the establishment of an industry-academic cooperation network linked to the local community.

Although he aimed for Kyungpook National University to be recognized as a top national university, the university failed to be selected for the Ministry of Education's 'Glocal 30 Universities' initiative.

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