Professor Kim Jae Hong of the Department of Korean History at Kookmin University has been appointed as the new director of the National Museum of Korea.

Professor Kim Jae Hong, who will oversee the National Museum of Korea and its 13 affiliated museums, is an expert in Korean history for more than 30 years.  His research has focused on the Three Kingdoms period, agricultural history, tombs, wood inscriptions, and ironware production.

Born in 1965 in Yeongcheon, Gyeongbuk, he graduated from Seoul National University's Department of Korean History and earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the same university's graduate school. He started working at the National Museum of Korea as an academic researcher in 1993 and gained administrative experience for about 20 years. In 2012, he served as the director of the National Museum of Korea Chuncheon.

He then moved to the Department of National History (now the Department of Korean History, College of Global Humanities and Regional Studies) at Woori University, where he also served as director of the Korean Studies Institute and director of the Myeongwon Museum. He has also served as the president of the Korean Society of Merchant Archaeology, a member of the founding committee of the Incheon National Maritime Museum, and a member of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the National Heritage Administration.