School Corporation Dongui Academy Appoints Jeong Jang-bu as 4th Chairman of the Board

Chairman of Jeongryangbu Dongui Academy.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] The Dongui Academy Foundation held a board meeting on the 27th and appointed Director Jeong Yang-bu as the 4th Chairman of the Dongui Academy Foundation.

The newly appointed Chairman Jeong Yang-bu graduated from Gyeongnam High School and Hanyang University’s Department of Architecture, earned a master's degree in Architectural Engineering from Pusan National University, completed the doctoral preparatory course (DEA) at Paris Sorbonne University, and obtained a Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering from Hanyang University.

Since 1979, he has served as a professor in the Department of Architectural Engineering at Dong-Eui University, holding positions such as Dean of Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate School, and served as the 8th President of Dong-Eui University starting in 2010. Since January 2020, he has been serving as a director of the Dongui Academy Foundation.

His external activities include serving as a member and chairman of the Busan City Cultural Heritage Committee and as a director of the Foundation for Supporting Victims of Forced Mobilization during Japanese Occupation.

Chairman Jeong Yang-bu said, “I feel a heavy responsibility in taking on this important role amid difficult circumstances such as declining birth rates, decreasing school-age population, and weakened regional competitiveness, but I will overcome these challenges through communication and unity with the members. I will devote myself wholeheartedly to the infinite development and prosperity of the Dongui Academy Foundation by inheriting the founder’s educational philosophy that ‘when the forest is dense, birds will come.’”

Established in 1966, the Dongui Academy Foundation oversees Dongui Middle School, Dongui Technical High School, Dongui Science College, Dongui University, Dongui University Oriental Medicine Hospital and Dongui Hospital, as well as the Dongui University Affiliated Dongui Kindergarten.

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