Dr. Sook-hee Hong completed her doctorate in lifelong education from Chung-Ang University in Korea. Since 1987, she has been in the field of lifelong education, a working secretary of the Korea Association for Community Education, the executive officer of the Bucheon Association, the director of the Bucheon City Lifelong Learning Center, and a visiting researcher at the National Institute for Lifelong Education. She worked as an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of Education Graduate School of Education. After returning to his hometown of Jeju in 2012, she has been conducting research and practice for the development of local lifelong education in Jeju. She is currently a director of The Korean Society for the Study of Lifelong Education, the Korean Federation for Lifelong Education, and the Korean Association for Lifelong Educators. Her main research topics are lifelong education policy and community education, lifelong learning cities and learning communities, self-directed learning and learning support systems, and recent research on policy and practice of older adults’ lifelong education