History
The Department of Plant Medicals was established in 1988 by two founders (Dr. CY Kim and Dr. EK Cho).
Right after opening the department, they recruited Dr. YI Lee, Dr. SG Lee, and Dr. SC Han during next two years (1989-1990).
In addition, Dr. YK Lee was recruited in 1992 and Dr. YG Kim was joined in 1994.
Finally, this department is able to accommodate two majors of plant pathology and entomology, in which EK Cho, SG Lee, and YK Lee were assigned in plant pathology while YI Lee, SC Han, and YG Kim were in entomology. Since then, professors have been rotated after one by one retirement. Dr. C Jung, Dr. UT Lim, Dr. YH Jeon, Dr. JS Kim, Dr. HW Choi, and Dr. EJ Kil were recruited over last 20 years.
This Department has educated more than 1,300 undergraduate students and over 200 graduate students for last 32 years. Since 2006, this department has been supported by Ministry of Education in Korea under BK21 program. Graduate students have been financially supported in tuition and stipend. They are also supported in travel funds for international conferences.
This Department publishes more than 100 papers per year. A new BK21 program (2020 ~ 2027) aims to educate graduate students under a guideline to publish papers valued over 5.0 impact factor for PhD candidate and 3.0 impact factor for MS candidate.
We hope this Department would be the top academy in Korea to educate the plant doctors and related researchers for contributing to Korean agriculture and bio-industry.