Yonsei University Professors Song Min and Lee Muwon Selected for Korea Research Foundation Excellent Scholar Support Program

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] Yonsei University announced on the 7th that Professor Song Min of the Department of Library and Information Science and Professor Lee Muwon of the Department of Business Administration have been finally selected for the Korea Research Foundation's 2020 Excellent Scholar Support Project in the Humanities and Social Sciences field.

This project, which selected a total of seven scholars this year, is operated with the purpose of nurturing world-class scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Each scholar receives a total of 250 million KRW over five years.

Professor Song is conducting the project titled "Quantitative Ontology-based Interdisciplinary Knowledge Convergence Research." He is establishing the concept of social quantitative ontology, conducting research on detecting intellectual structures of academic fields and emerging issues based on quantitative ontology, and ultimately plans to redefine the expanded concept of quantitative ontology and compile it into a specialized academic book. Professor Lee is conducting the project titled "The Leader's Illusion: Why Organizations Do Not Learn from Experience?" In the face of a civilizational transition triggered by the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), he plans to propose analytical leadership based on systems thinking as a new form of leadership to successfully address the two epochal challenges of innovation and inclusion.

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