Gyeongsang National University Professor Lee Jeong-seok Appointed President of the Korean Society of Fisheries Sciences

Professor Lee Jeong-seok, Gyeongsang National University.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Professor Lee Jeong-seok of the Department of Marine Food Engineering, College of Marine Science, Gyeongsang National University, has been appointed as the president of the Korean Society of Fisheries Science and will serve as president for one year starting January 2023.

The Korean Society of Fisheries Science, established in 1955, is a leading domestic professional society in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture, consisting of three divisions: fisheries utilization and processing, aquaculture, and fisheries resource ecology, with about 1,000 active members.

As the new president, Lee outlined the society’s key projects for the coming year as ▲ strengthening cooperative networks to secure financial stability and expand membership ▲ discovering joint projects among industry, academia, research, and government sectors and hosting related symposiums ▲ diversifying academic conference programs and enhancing camaraderie among members.

President Lee stated, “I plan to do my best to revitalize the society and ask for the active interest and cooperation of the members.”

After earning his Ph.D. in Food Engineering from Pukyong National University, Lee served as a special foreign researcher at Tohoku University in Japan, an industry-academia cooperation professor at Jeju National University, planning director of the Korean Society of Marine Biotechnology, and advisor to the Korea Technology Finance Corporation. He is currently serving as the senior vice president of the Korean Society of Fisheries Science, chair of the Fisheries Food Division of the Korean Society of Food Science and Technology, and a fisheries food expert committee member at the National Institute of Fisheries Science.

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