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K-Arts Appoints Seven New Faculty Members
09. 02(Fri)
K-Arts Appoints Seven New Faculty Members

 

The K-Arts has hired seven professors in total: five in the 1st open recruitment of 2022, one in the special recruitment, and one in the recruitment of 2021 who had suspended the appointment. Through this open recruitment, violinist Kim Young-uk (Department of Instrumental Music, School of Music), 3D and XR animation director Park Jong-shin (Department of Animation, School of Film, TV & Multimedia), ballet dancer Kim Hyun Woong (Department of Dance Performance, School of Dance), dance critic Han Seok Jin (Department of Dance Theory, School of Dance), and sculptor Jun Sojung (Department of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts) were assigned their posts. Kim Young-uk won the 2014 Mozart Competition Salzburg in the string quartet. He has also been actively performing as a member of the Novus Quartet for 15 years. Park Jong-shin has been a 3D and XR technical director at Studio Holhory, Inc. and Around Effect, Inc. since 2011. Kim Hyun Woong is the winner of the 2011 Dance Competition Sicily in pas de deux. He also performed as the principal dancer in Korean National Ballet and the Washington Ballet. Han Seok Jin, who majored in dance aesthetics and criticism, conducts in-depth research in his field, publishing multiple papers, including the one which won the Best Paper Award granted by the Korean Association of Dance Critics and Researchers (KADCR) in 2022. Jun Sojung is the winner of art awards by the Foundation of enterprise Hermès Art Award in 2018 and the Songeun Art and Cultural Foundation in 2015. Actively engaging in artistic activities at home and abroad, Jun is expected to set a role model and inspire her students in their creative activities.

 

Through the special recruitment, on the other hand, the school appointed filmmaker Kim Yong-hwa to the full-time faculty of the Department of Filmmaking in the School of Film, TV & Multimedia. The special recruitment aimed to hire professionals from home or abroad in the field related to the major to foster the next generation of experts in video art. Kim Yong-hwa won the Best Director Award at the 54th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2018 and the Best Film Award at the 46th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2010. With his series, Along with the Gods (2017) & (2018), he earned recognition as a ten million-viewer director.

 

Professor Shim Kyuha in computational design won his post in the Department of Design in the School of Visual Arts through the first full-time faculty recruitment in 2021. He finally took his position this year after suspending his appointment. Shim served as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States and won the 2012 Red Dot Design Award. He was also a research fellow at the MIT Senseable City Lab, the United States.