IBC ‘100 Scientists’, Who\'s Who 2009, etc; 4th in this year alone
International certification of research of scholar in 30s  
[June 24, 2008]

Professor Park Han-woo (37, Department of Media and Communication) was entered on both major people guides.

Professor Park was notified that he was selected as (Top 100 Scientists in 2008) by IBC of England and then was later notified that he had been registered in the Who\'s Who in the World 2009 by Marquis of the US.

In March and April, he was also selected as one of the 2,000 Outstanding Scientists in 2008-2009 by IBC and the Foremost Scientists of the World in 2008 by IBC.

Thus, Park placed his name in both prominent guides to intellects four times just this year. This represents the international certification of his research achievements, which is very rare for a professor in his 30s.

Park majored in media and communications at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Seoul National University graduate school (Masters) and State University of New York (PhD). He is one of only a handful of experts in webometrics in the country. Webometrics is a new academic field that analyzes social networks using the contents and hyperlinks of websites.

He has written seven papers in international journals just this year and a total of 21 theses since 2002. He is well-known by the domestic and international academia for his research results of \'web space analysis for political websites\', which he performed together with the Korea Research Foundation. He is currently a co-editor of the international journal, \'Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia\', and the operations director for the \'Information Analysis and e-Research Forum\', which is a cooperative of academia and industries. His books include \'Use of Media in the Digital Times: Media Use Encyclopedia for the 21st Century\' (co-writer, 2006), \'Internet and International Academic Information Network Hyperlink\' (Asan Research Volume 179, 2005) and \'Media and Culture in the Information Era (co-writer, 1998).