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Park Jae-gyu is the president of Kyungnam University.

He faces the task of addressing the aftermath of the university’s failure to be selected for the Glocal University project and pushing ahead with fundamental reforms to improve the institution’s structure.

He was born on August 11, 1944, in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province.

He graduated from the Department of Political Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in the United States. He earned a master’s degree in political science from the City University of New York graduate school and a doctoral degree in political science from Kyung Hee University graduate school.

In 1973, he joined Kyungnam University as a professor and later served as director of the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, where he conducted research on North Korea.

He served as chairman of the committee to promote inter-Korean summit talks and as a presidential advisor on unification affairs, and he was Minister of Unification under the Kim Dae-jung administration.

His older brother is Park Jong-gyu, former chairman of the Kyungnam Educational Foundation, who served as head of the Presidential Security Service during the Park Chung-hee administration. Park Jae-gyu served for more than 30 years as chairman of the school foundation and as university president.

He is currently focusing on fostering the university as a “Physical AI research hub university” and on managing performance following its selection for the Gyeongnam RISE project.

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