Kang Seongmin, CEO of Geulhangari, Appointed as New Chairman of Publishing City Cultural Foundation

Kang Seongmin, CEO of Geulhangari, Appointed as New Chairman of the Publishing City Cultural Foundation

The Publishing City Cultural Foundation announced on the 28th that through the board meeting held on the 27th, Kang Seong-min, CEO of Geulhangari, has been appointed as the chairman.

Kang Seong-min, the new chairman of the Publishing City Cultural Foundation and CEO of Geulhangari. Provided by Publishing City Cultural Foundation

New Chairman Kang Seong-min graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Dongguk University in 1998. He worked as a reporter for Publishing Journal, a reporter and editor-in-chief for Professor Newspaper, and has been serving as the CEO of Geulhangari since 2007. From 2017 to 2018, he served as the Chair of the Reading Promotion Committee of the Korea Publishers Association, a faculty member of the Seoul Book Institute, and chairman of the Book Sound Social Cooperative. Last year, he was recognized for his contributions to the publishing industry and received the Grand Prize of the "Publisher of the Year" awarded by the Korea Publishers Association.

New Chairman Kang Seong-min expressed, "I am very honored and at the same time feel a heavy responsibility," adding, "I will do my best to make Publishing City a more active place for knowledge exchange and to ensure that publishing and cultural arts harmoniously develop together."

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