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Former Information and Communication Minister Soonhoon Bae appointed to Vice president of KAIST​
View : 13674 Date : 2006-09-05 Writer : ed_news

“KAIST graduate school of management will be a world-class graduate school of management” 

Professor Soonhoon Bae was appointed to the vice president of KAIST in Seoul campus on August 16. 

Vice president Bae started his carrier with Daewoo Inc. as the head of the technical H.Q. in Daewoo Heavy Industry in 1976, and took office as the CEO of Daewoo Electronics (1991-95) and Daewoo Inc. (1995-97). 

He was also the Minister of Information and Communication in 1998 and the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Business Hub during 2004-05. 

He became an issue by ‘TANKism’, a motto of making strong and core function-convergent electronic goods, when he was the CEO of Daewoo Electronics in 1992. From 1999, he’s made lectures for KAIST graduate school of techno management and Classroom No. 101 in Supex Management Hall where he has made lectures is called ‘tank classroom’. 

Vice president Bae expressed his intention of the globalization and level-up of the school by saying, “I will focus on basic researches of management and thus raise the level of KAIST graduate school up to be qualified for Nobel Prize. I’ve taken many high-rank positions such as the CEO of major companies and the minister, however, position doesn’t matter at all. I am fully satisfied with the fact that the organizations that I belonged to have been reborn as world-class communities, and I am planning to lead KAIST graduate school of management in such a direction.”

KAIST in Seoul campusvice presidentMinister of Information and Communication in 1998 Soonhoon Bae College of Engineering Department of mechanical engineering
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