The Korea Heritage Service said it will appoint Park Jeonghye, a professor at the Academy of Korean Studies’ Graduate School of Korean Studies, as the fifth chair of the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation, effective April 16.
Her three-year term runs through April 15, 2029.
Park has served as president of the Korean Society of Art History, a member of the National Institute of Korean History, dean of the Academy of Korean Studies’ Graduate School of Korean Studies, and chair of the Movable Cultural Heritage Subcommittee of the Cultural Heritage Administration’s Cultural Heritage Committee.
The foundation, an affiliate of the Korea Heritage Service, was established in July 2012 to carry out comprehensive and systematic projects related to surveying and researching Korean cultural heritage held overseas, as well as its repatriation and use.
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