At the inauguration ceremony of KAIST’s new president, Kwang-hyung Lee (center), held on the 8th, NXC CEO Kim Jeong-joo (left) gave a congratulatory remark. Young-dal Kim, CEO of IDIS Holdings (right), who connected the two, also attended. Freelancer Kim Seong-tae
Lee Kwang-hyung (67), a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), who is famous for being a’geeky professor’ held an inauguration ceremony as the new president on the afternoon of the 8th. At the inauguration ceremony, his student, Kim Jeong-joo, 53, CEO of NXC gave a congratulatory remark, and he drew attention as he cried three or four times for about five minutes on the stage.
KAIST President Lee Kwang-hyung attends the inauguration ceremony
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Kim, who appeared with short hair, hesitated, saying, “I don’t know how to start (congratulations),” and then introduced the relationship with KAIST. “(At KAIST) I was cut off while I was a doctor and ran away. In the meantime, I started a company and somehow came to this place,” he said. “Comparing to my school days, the appearance of KAIST has changed considerably, but I still feel like I have returned to my old home.”
At the same time, he stopped talking, crying as if his emotions were overwhelming. He said, “The reason I feel’warmth like a mother’ at KAIST is thanks to President Lee Kwang-hyung.’ I recalled. He then suggested that he would apply to KAIST, saying, “I will help if I can help.”
Representative Kim, the first generation of the domestic game industry, enrolled in a master’s program in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST in 1991 and founded Nexon three years later. In 1993, he went on to the doctoral course in the same department, but he was unable to concentrate on his studies, and his advisor at the time informed him that it would be better to quit the doctoral course. The person who accepted him who was expelled from the lab was Lee Kwang-hyung (then professor). Thanks to this, CEO Kim was able to continue his school life for about a year. However, CEO Kim did not finally graduate from KAIST. While Professor Lee left for training at Stanford University in the United States on a sabbatical year, the temporary supervisor rebuked him for “I don’t even study, only make games,” and demanded that President Kim drop out.
Meanwhile, President Lee Kwang-hyung, who took office as the 17th president of KAIST on the same day, presented his vision directly at the inauguration ceremony and was evaluated as “a geek professor became a geek president.”
In his inauguration address, President Lee emphasized, “In the future, we should focus on finding the problems that humanity is facing, and KAIST should focus on solving them.” Mentioning the 50th anniversary of its establishment this year, he said, “Please gather your capabilities to create a’KAIST new culture’ for the next 50 years.” In the meantime, he made a presentation on how to make KAIST’s newspaperization and how to change universities, using PT. He said, “The problem with KAIST is that we study too much,” and suggested, “I will reduce the time to study my major by 10%, and learn character and leadership in that time.” In addition, “We will support commercialization to the extent that side effects can occur so that one venture company can be established per research center.” For this purpose, “We will attract donations of about 100 million won per day. I think I would have made a lot today,” he laughed.
Former KAIST President Shin Seong-cheol said in a congratulatory remark, “The leader of KAIST is also important in intelligence, but emotional leadership that communicates and considers with more than 15,000 members is also important.” Former Chairman of Future Industry, who donated 50 billion won to KAIST, said, “I want to hug President Lee stronger than a few words of congratulations.”
President Lee received a doctorate from the French Academy of Applied Sciences and was appointed professor in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST in 1985. When he was a professor, he became famous for his unique test questions, such as’hack my computer’ and’create a problem that can’t be solved’. It is an existential model of Professor Park Ki-hoon (played by Ahn Jeong-hoon), who was called’Geek Professor’ in the SBS TV drama’KAIST’.
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