NRC board approves appointment Thursday

Three-year term begins Friday

Park Jun-ki, the incoming president of the Korea Rural Economic Institute [Provided by KREI]
Park Jun-ki, the incoming president of the Korea Rural Economic Institute [Provided by KREI]

Park Jun-ki, 60, a senior research fellow, has been named the 17th president of the Korea Rural Economic Institute.

The National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (NRC), which operates under the prime minister's office, held its 397th board meeting Thursday and approved Park's appointment.

Born in 1966, Park graduated from Gwangju Commercial High School and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from Chonnam National University, where Park also completed master's and doctoral degrees in the same field.

Park has served as a private-sector member of the Social Infrastructure Subcommittee under the Ministry of Economy and Finance's fiscal project evaluation committee, as a member of the agriculture and fisheries subcommittee of the Presidential Commission on Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Communities, and as a member of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs' self-evaluation committee. Park also served as president of the Korean Agricultural Economics Association.

The three-year term runs from Friday through Oct. 29, 2029. During the term, the NRC will evaluate Park's management performance and research achievements.


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