Park Gets Alumni Award From University of Hawaii
By Kang Shin-who
Staff Reporter
Park Myung-seok, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, has been given the Korea Chapter Award for Distinguished Services from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Park has committed himself to the development of a Korean studies institute at the university over the last 30 years.
Park received the award from Virginia S. Hinshaw, president of the university during a ceremony at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul, Wednesday. Some 100 alumni of the university attended the ceremony.