Sungshin Women's University President Seong Seong-geun... Business Scholar Who Visited Corporate Sites Including Mobile Carriers

Ph.D. in Business Administration and Statistics from Korea University
Major Projects for the Top 3 Telecom Companies

Seong-Geun Lee, President of Sungshin Women's University, was born in 1963 and graduated from Korea University with a degree in English Literature. He earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Statistics from Korea University Graduate School.

Sung Seong-geun, President of Sungshin Women's University, is giving an interview to Asia Economy on the 18th at Sungshin Women's University in Seongbuk-gu, Seoul.
[Photo by Kim Hyun-min]

President Lee gained corporate field experience as a researcher at Nielsen Korea in 1989 and later as the head of the marketing research team at SK Telecom in 1995.

He then served as a professor at Dongyang Technical College in 1997 before moving to Sungshin Women's University as a professor in the Department of Business Administration in 2004. At Sungshin Women's University, he held various positions including Director of Planning and Information, Vice President for External Cooperation, Dean of the Graduate School of Cultural Industry and Arts, and Vice President of the Faculty Council, before being appointed president in 2022. Having served as an officer of the Faculty Council and experienced various aspects of university administration, he is regarded as a knowledgeable president in university management.

Among his major career achievements is his experience in carrying out distribution strategy projects for the three major telecommunications companies. President Lee undertook the long-term development strategy for Dacom (LG Uplus) in 1993, the distribution strategy for Shinsegi Telecom (SK Telecom) in 1995, and the distribution activation strategy for KT in 2005.

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