Oh Mi-Kyung Reporter

Professor Kim Jae-Hong, head of the Department of Korean History at Kookmin University (KMU), has been appointed as the new director of the National Museum of Korea. Having studied the history of Korea for three decades, Professor Kim becomes to serve as a director of 13 affiliated museums, in addition to the National Museum of Korea in Yongsan-gu, Seoul. He has studied burial sites, wooden tablets (pieces of wood with writing on them), and ironware production, including relics of the cultures and agricultural history of the Three Kingdoms Period.

Born in Yeongcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, in 1965, Professor Kim graduated from the Department of Korean History at Seoul National University (SNU) and also earned both a master’s degree and doctorate from the SNU’s graduate school.

Having worked at the National Museum of Korea in an academic research position in 1993 and gained 20 years of administrative experience, he also served as head of the Chuncheon National Museum in 2012. Afterward, he took a professor position in the Department of Korean History at KMU and held director posts at the Institute of Korean Studies and Museum Myungwon.

Professor Kim was also a head of the Ancient Historical Society and a founding member of the Incheon National Maritime Museum and served on the Korea Heritage Service’s Cultural Heritage Committee.

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