By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
The college of law at Korea University appointed a woman as a professor for the first time in 102 years.
Yoon Young-mi became the first female faculty member of the law school from Sept. 1, Korea University said.
She is the only female among the 43 professors of the university.
``I will try to provide students with legal knowledge that I have accumulated in the real field.'' Yoon said. ``I will put all my efforts toward bringing up law experts equipped with theoretical and empirical knowledge.''
Founded in 1905, the law college had remained a male-dominant area despite the recent female-oriented work culture in various fields.
Other top-notch universities here such as Seoul National University and Yonsei University have several female professors in their law schools.
Korea University started recruiting field-trained lawyers in preparation for the U.S.-style law school system, which is scheduled to launch from 2009.
Korea University's law school has employed a total of five new members including former judges and attorneys as professors in efforts to win the right to run the new law school. It will also hire 12 more law experts by March 2008.
The government plans to announce the list of universities that will run the new law schools by early next year.
The 45-year-old law expert graduated from the college of law at Seoul National University and has worked for four years (2002~2005) at the Constitution Court of Korea as a researcher of the Constitution.