Professional Life

Social Leadership Positions

Committee Member, IAPT 2023 Conference (2022 - 2023)
▪ More info: https://sites.google.com/view/iaptseoul


Research Assistant, Counseling Program of United Methodist Church & Yonsei University (2023)

Counselor, Counseling and Coaching Center, Yonsei Univ. (2020 - 2024)

Junior Pastor, Gochon Methodist Church, Seoul (2019 - 2022)


Sergeant / Squad Leader, Republic of Korea Army (2022 - 2023)

Supervisor, Institute for Higher Education Innovation, Yonsei (2020 - 2021)
▪ Developed and assisted the mentoring program funded by the Korean government and global company SK to remove educational inequality in South Korea.
▪ Organized the mentoring system and developed new programs to improve the mentoring relationship, and worked as a mentor for undergraduate students.


Teaching Assistant, University College, Yonsei (2020, 2023)
▪ Assisted professor Paik Young Min's English lecture "Christianity and World Culture," Executive Director of LESD Hub Asia Pacific in United Methodist Church.
▪ Was in charge of administrative affairs and gave feedback and advice on students' team presentations.


Coordinator, Youth Orchestra School, Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education (2017 - 2022)
▪ Worked as coordinator in weekly practices and planning classical concerts with 500 students participating.
▪ Conducted academic and career mentoring for the adolescents in the orchestra school during the summer and winter music camp, which were comprised of students from elementary to high schools.
▪ Participated as a violinist and manager in the Western United States tour in 2016.


Team Leader, Integrated Media Center, Yonsei (2019 - 2020)
▪ Served as the founding member and team leader of the "Advertisement Media Center," one of the teams of the Integrated Media Center Yonsei University, which was first launched in 2019.
▪ Managed more than 70 large monitors located on two campuses, Shinchon and Songdo, edited various sources of news, academic achievements, campus events, and promotional materials using professional video editing tools—Premiere Pro and After Effects—and screened them on campus monitors.


Office Assistant, Global Institute of Theology, Yonsei (2017 - 2017)
▪ Yonsei University was founded in the late 19th century by missionaries including Horace Grant Underwood, an American missionary born in the United Kingdom, and is now a prominent university. As a social contribution to these sacrifices, the United Theological Graduate School in Yonsei established the Global Institute of Theology(GIT) at Songdo International Campus, so that students from developing countries can study with theologians.
▪ Worked as an office assistant for a year and was in charge of introducing campuses to foreign professors, managing dormitories, and supporting the Korean life of foreign students through periodic communication.

Mission Work

Gochon Methodist Church, South Korea (2017-2023)
▪ Leading the Sunday Middle School named 'David School' in Gochon Methodist Church.
▪ Teaching Christianity and the Christian views to over 80 middle school students(ages 12-14)
▪ Developed 'David TV,' a new spiritual and counseling program using Zoom and YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic


Chaplaincy for Korean Army Candidate, South Korea (2018-2022)
Selected from over 100 applicants in 2018 to join the chaplaincy candidacy program, receiving supervised education as a junior pastor.
Due to delays in the chaplaincy program by the South Korean Ministry of National Defense, I had to make the difficult decision to withdraw from the candidacy.


Ministry in Toronto, Ontario (2024-)
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