Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) said on Wednesday it has appointed senior researcher Lim Jung-seok (임정석) as the new head of its affiliated National Security Technology Research Institute.
Lim graduated in electronic communications engineering from Hanyang University and earned a master's and doctoral degree at its graduate school.
Lim worked as a senior researcher at the Agency for Defense Development from 1989. He joined the National Security Technology Research Institute in 2000 and served as head of the Security Systems Division, department head and office head. He also served as a member of the Ministry of National Defense's R&D Deliberation Committee and as vice president for cooperation at the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology.
Park Se-woong (박세웅), president of ETRI, is scheduled to present Lim with an appointment letter on Nov. 16. Lim's term runs for three years from Nov. 15.
The National Security Technology Research Institute is an information security research institution established in 2000. It is an affiliated organisation of ETRI, which is a government-funded research institute under the National Research Council of Science and Technology.
Jin-ho Lee
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