1998 VAN FLEET AWARD

JEONG H. KIM

President of Lucent Technologies' Carrier Network Group

CITATION

Jeong H. Kim is president of Lucent Technologies' Carrier Networks Group, where he is responsible for Lucent's worldwide offering of data networking products to service providers. Kim assumed this key position in May 1998 upon Lucent's $1 billion strategic acquisition of Yurie Systems, the high-tech communications equipment company that he founded in 1992. By 1997, Yurie Systems had been named by Business Week as America's #1 Hot Growth Company.

Kim came to America in 1975, at the age of 14. Throughout his education-high school through Ph.D.-Kim worked full-time. Nonetheless, he was able to earn his Ph.D. degree in two years. Notably, Kim served for seven years as an officer in the U.S. Navy, and credits this military experience for giving him the leadership and management skills he has so clearly demonstrated in his business career.

Earlier this year, Kim was told of the plight of many Koreans studying in the United States who are facing great hardships, and even the potential loss of the opportunity to complete their education in the United States, due to the financial crisis in Korea. Kim clearly recognized the vital role that Koreans who have been educated in America are playing in Korea's development, and in the strengthening of the Korean-American relationship. Once again, Kim demonstrated his capacity for leadership by making a donation of $250,000 to a scholarship fund The Korea Society is sponsoring to benefit Korean students impacted by the financial crisis.

This truly magnificent gesture of generosity, coming on top of his brilliant achievements in the field of technology, makes Kim an outstanding candidate for this year's Van Fleet Award. It also is worthy of note that Kim is the first Korean American to receive this award. So it is fitting that he is a beneficiary of the American educational system who has built his great success on what he has learned and acquired in the United States. We are delighted to honor his great generosity in helping others to do the same.

1998 VAN FLEET AWARD

JONG-HYON CHEY (1930-1998)

 Chairman

The Federation of Korean Industries

Chairman

SK Group

CITATION

The late Jong-Hyon Chey, who was chairman of the SK Group and The Federation of Korean Industries, is hereby recognized with the greatest appreciation for his generosity and support of The Korea Society.

One of the distinguishing features of The Korea Society is its Intercultural Outreach Program (ICOP), which was established in 1994 and sustained over the last five years by a generous annual grant from The Federation of Korean Industries that was made possible by Chairman Chey. Through this program, over one hundred inner-city high school students from all over America have traveled to Korea to see firsthand what the Korean people have achieved in their own country. In addition, thousands of schoolchildren have been introduced, in their classrooms, to the arts and culture of Korea through this program.

Chairman Chey demonstrated great vision and leadership in his support of The Korea Society. Part of his legacy, in America, are the thousands of people who have gained a better understanding of Korea and a greater appreciation of the importance of the U.S.-Korea relationship through the program he so generously supported. Chairman Chey's support has been so vital to the development of The Korea Society that he will always be remembered as one of its true founding fathers.

1997 VAN FLEET AWARD

PYONG HWOI KOO

Chairman

Korea International Trade Association

 Citation

Pyong-Hwoi Koo became chairman of the Korea International Trade Association (KITA) in February 1994 after serving as its vice chairman from 1985.

Chairman Koo's business career with the LG Group began in 1951, as a manager at Lucky Chemical Company. During his 40-plus years with LG, he held numerous positions of distinction including: director of Goldstar Co., president of Honam Oil Refinery Co., vice chairman of the Lucky-Goldstar Group and chairman of Lucky-Goldstar International Corporation. In 1995, he became an advisory board member of the LG Group.

Chairman Koo has been a dedicated member of a number of prominent economic and social organizations. He has served as chairman of the Korea-Canada Business Council, international president and Korea committee chairman of the Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) and chairman of the Bidding Committee for the 2002 World Cup in Korea (KOBID). His current appointments include: chairman of the Korea-U.S. Economic Council (KUSEC), chairman of the Korea-U.S. Business Council, chairman of the Korea Commercial Arbitration Board, and honorary consul general of the Republic of Peru.

Chairman Koo has received many awards over the course of his distinguished career, including Korea's highest civilian honors for service to national development. He was awarded the Order of Industrial Merit (Gold Tower) in 1982, the Order of Civil Merit (Mugunghwa Medal) in 1993 and the Order of Sport Merit (Cheongryong Medal) in 1997. He was also awarded the Order of Merit for Distinguished Services (Great Cross) by the Republic of Peru in 1996.

Koo graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science from Seoul National University in Korea. In November 1993, he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by the University of British Columbia.

1995 VAN FLEET AWARD

CHULSU KIM

Deputy Director-General
World Trade Organization

 Citation

Chulsu Kim joined the World Trade Organization as its deputy director-general on July 1, 1995. Before coming to Geneva, Kim pursued a long and distinguished career with the Korean Government in the field of trade policy making and international trade negotiation.

Kim received a B.A. in political science from Tufts University in 1964 and later an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Massachusetts. After completing graduate school, he taught Political Science at Smith College and St. Lawrence University.

For more than 20 years, Kim has been professionally concerned with international trade policy as a Korean government official. In 1973, he joined the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and subsequently served in various positions. As assistant minister from 1984 to 1990, Kim was Korea's chief trade negotiator, leading many of Korea's trade negotiation teams in both bilateral and multilateral consultations.

In 1987, he was selected as chairman of the MTN Negotiating Group in the GATT Uruguay Round and served for four years in that position. As such, he was one of the handful of key officials who, in effect, led the negotiations.

In 1990, Kim was appointed commissioner of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), a post which carried the rank of vice minister. While at KIPO, he gained a reputation as a crusader for stronger protection of intellectual property rights-not always a popular cause in Korea.

The next year, he was named president of the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA), a state-run organization that seeks to expand Korea's international trade. In a departure from tradition, he redirected KOTRA's trade promotion effort to better serve the needs of Korea's small and medium-size firms, which had often been neglected in the past.

In February 1993, the newly-inaugurated President Kim Young Sam chose Kim to be his first minister of Trade, Industry and Energy. In that capacity, Minister Kim played a prominent role in formulating and implementing the administration's "New Economy Plan," which aims to deregulate and "internationalize" the Korean economy through wide-ranging reforms. He represented Korea at the 1993 and 1994 ministerial meetings of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation group (APEC) and at the formal signing of the Uruguay Round Final Act in Marrakesh, Morocco, in April 1994.

In December 1994, Kim resigned from the cabinet, and, shortly thereafter, was appointed to the newly-created post of ambassador for international trade by President Kim Young Sam.

Chulsu Kim was born in Seoul on January, 26, 1941. He is married and the father of two children.