Han Nam-jin, Chairman of Gwangju Branch, Elected as 9th President of National Quality Masters Association

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Han Namjin, chairman of the Gwangju Metropolitan City branch of the National Quality Masters Association, has been elected as the 9th president of the National Quality Masters Association.

According to the National Quality Masters Association on the 11th, Han, the chairman of the Gwangju branch, received 64.7% of the votes in a vote held the previous day with association executives and branch executives from nationwide cities and provinces in attendance.

The National Quality Masters Association has had 1,552 National Quality Masters selected by the state since 1991 under the Quality Management and Industrial Product Safety Control Act as members and operates 11 branches nationwide.

For the past 30 years, the association has been dedicated to knowledge contribution volunteer activities that transfer the productivity improvement technologies and experiences accumulated by quality masters in industrial sites to local small and medium-sized enterprises.

Newly elected president Han Namjin said, “Currently, global competition is intensifying in advanced industries such as semiconductors, but our industrial competitiveness is weakening,” adding, “To overcome these challenges, strengthening industrial quality competitiveness to produce affordable and high-quality competitive products is fundamental.”

He continued, “In the future, the association will also expand social contribution activities through the creation of creative talent donation businesses to contribute more significantly to the sustainable growth and core competencies of the nation and society,” and added, “We will do our best to derive practical cooperation measures with the central government’s support for quality masters’ community contributions and industry-academia-research cooperation.”

Master Han Namjin joined Samsung Electronics in 1987 and served as a team leader and group leader in charge of quality innovation, as well as quality office director during his 32 years there.

He has been serving as the chairman of the Gwangju branch of the National Quality Masters Association since 2017 and was appointed senior vice president of the association in 2019.

He is actively engaged in knowledge volunteering to improve the quality of local small and medium-sized enterprises while working as a technology doctor at Gwangju Technopark, a smart factory consultant at the Korea Standards Association, and an adjunct professor at Chonnam National University in the local community.

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