Professors and researchers in health policy management related departments
Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA)
Korea Health Industry Development Institute
Pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, medical device companies, and dental health industry
Private businesses
Government, Public Institutions, and Others
National Health Insurance Service
Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service
National Pension Service
Korea Workers’ Compensation & Welfare Service
International Organizations
International organizations including World Bank, WHO, IMF, etc.
Major Employment Institutions
National Health Insurance Service
Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service
Korea National Oil Corporation
National Evidence-based healthcare Collaborating Agency (NECA)
Seoul National University Hospital
CHA Bundang Medical Center
Dong A Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
Easy Medical
Astellas Pharma Korea, Inc.
Korea Otsuka Phamaceutical Co., Ltd.
Samsung Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
LG Life Sciences Ltd.
Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers
Graduate School (Korea University, Overseas)
Messages from Graduates
Yeonji Ma (enrolled in 2006)
Please tell us about your current work.
I enrolled in the School of Health Policy and Management in 2006. I’ve been working on the Writing Social Diary project as a member of the case team on the city desk of the Segye Daily News since June 2013. Every newspaper has a division called either a case team, a police team, or a task force team. Reporters on these teams go to the sites of big incidents and accidents to write news articles from direct observation. I’ve been to various accident sites, including the I Park helicopter crash site in Samsung-dong (Nov. 2013). Articles I’ve written include “Jo Hyeonah Nut Rage,” “The Embezzlement of Cigarette Money by the Son of a Member of the Ruling Party,” and “Rape Committed by a Teacher.” After the first outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Korea on May 20, I was dispatched to the Ministry of Health and Welfare to report on the outbreak of the MERS-CoV infection and problems with the domestic medical service system.
What are your plans for the future?
I want to be a reporter specializing in public welfare. While dual majoring in health administration and sociology, I became interested in the welfare systems of many countries. I had a chance to visit Northern Europe for about 10 days in January to investigate the welfare and education systems there, and this strengthened my goal. I also want to be a travel writer who meets people from all over the world and writes essays while traveling with a laptop and an old camera. I also want to withdraw from the secular world and move to a temple in the mountains where I can meditate and write novels. I also want to work on the farm with my father in my hometown.
Please share your thoughts with current students.
I’d like to say, “Please be positive about your disordered past, outpouring desires, and surging emotions.” I feel sorry to hear young college students say that they must change their unplanned and spontaneous past, and regard their urge to travel as a merely unhealthy desire. I hope you cherish and love your natural feelings. I think that we are able to fly high when there is a balance between our rich emotions and high level of rationality.
Jaeho Lee (enrolled in 2006)
Please tell us about your current work.
I enrolled in the School of Health Policy and Management in 2006. I’ve been working on the Writing Social Diary project as a member of the case team on the city desk of the Segye Daily News since June 2013. Every newspaper has a division called either a case team, a police team, or a task force team. Reporters on these teams go to the sites of big incidents and accidents to write news articles from direct observation. I’ve been to various accident sites, including the I Park helicopter crash site in Samsung-dong (Nov. 2013). Articles I’ve written include “Jo Hyeonah Nut Rage,” “The Embezzlement of Cigarette Money by the Son of a Member of the Ruling Party,” and “Rape Committed by a Teacher.” After the first outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Korea on May 20, I was dispatched to the Ministry of Health and Welfare to report on the outbreak of the MERS-CoV infection and problems with the domestic medical service system.
What are your plans for the future?
I want to be a reporter specializing in public welfare. While dual majoring in health administration and sociology, I became interested in the welfare systems of many countries. I had a chance to visit Northern Europe for about 10 days in January to investigate the welfare and education systems there, and this strengthened my goal. I also want to be a travel writer who meets people from all over the world and writes essays while traveling with a laptop and an old camera. I also want to withdraw from the secular world and move to a temple in the mountains where I can meditate and write novels. I also want to work on the farm with my father in my hometown.
Please share your thoughts with current students.
I’d like to say, “Please be positive about your disordered past, outpouring desires, and surging emotions.” I feel sorry to hear young college students say that they must change their unplanned and spontaneous past, and regard their urge to travel as a merely unhealthy desire. I hope you cherish and love your natural feelings. I think that we are able to fly high when there is a balance between our rich emotions and high level of rationality.
Keumryeong Park (enrolled in 2008)
Please tell us about your current work.
I am working as a professional researcher at the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, a national research institute for health care and social security. It is an institute that examines the effectiveness of health and welfare policies implemented by government departments including the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
What are your plans for the future?
What I have felt while working at a research institute for about one and a half years, which is not long, is that a large gap still exists between research and policies. While I was concerned about fundamental health care issues in my undergraduate and graduate years, I am currently focusing on problem solving using policies at this institute. I’d like to resolve the health care issues that I studied in graduate school with policies truly beneficial to the public so that I can demonstrate my ability to reduce the gap between research and policies.
Please share your thoughts with current students.
Since our department has just been established, what we do will become the history of our department and a foothold for future students. I hope that you remember the ultimate goal and value of health sciences, stay proud of majoring in it, and play a leading role in building a society where everybody is healthy.
Seojun Lee (enrolled in 2009)
Please tell us about your current work.
I am a doctoral student in public health sciences at Korea University. My specialty is designing/developing telemedicine (u-Health, m-Health, and e-Health) related solutions by converging health sciences and IT (health informatics, medical informatics). I’ve published about ten papers in national and international journals and will keep working hard to contribute to the field of health informatics.
What are your plans for the future?
My long-term goal is to become a professor and remain a scholar. I would also like to found a research institute someday and contribute to the development of health informatics at a global level.
Please share your thoughts with current students.
Health informatics is still a new field and may be unfamiliar to health policy and management students whose base knowledge is in the humanities, as it was to me. I am making efforts in the hope that students interested in this field will not face the hardships that I experienced in my early graduate years. I am preparing myself for various opportunities related to this field, such as academic and career opportunities.
Seunghwan Jeong (enrolled in 2006)
Please tell us about your current work.
I am a Ph.D. student studying health service research in the Population Health Sciences program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
What are your plans for the future?
Because I went to study abroad in the U.S. without any graduate school experience, it took me a long time to adapt to a new school environment, but now, under the guidance of a supportive adviser, I am happily working on my research tasks. My goal is to finish my doctoral studies and continue my research in the field of health care.
Please share your thoughts with current students.
After coming to the U.S. to study, I realized the importance of the people around me back in Korea. I thought that my family, friends, younger students, former students in my department, professors, and school club friends would always be there for me. Now, I realized how ungrateful I was. I hope that you have a chance to appreciate having such wonderful people around you and enjoy your college life with those good friends.
