Yong June Kim is currently Dean of the Graduate School of China at Sungkyunkwan University. He is the President-Elect of the Korean Academic Society of Business Administration. He has served as President of the Korean Marketing Association(2015-) and President of the Korean Academy of International Business(2014). He has also worked as Director of China Research Institute(1998-) and Professor of Business School, Sungkyunkwan University(1991-). He was Visiting Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong(2005-), Tsinghua University(1996-), and Shanghai-Jiaotong University, China(1990). He was the CEO of Samsung Open Tide China, Beijing, China(2000-).
For public service, he serves as Vice-President of the Korean Management Development Institute(2016- ), board member of the Korean Institute of Christian Management. He currently serves as a board member of Handok Pharmaceuticals Incorporated and Hyundai Marine Insurance Inc. He worked as a board member of LG Fashion, Nongshim Food, and Eagon Living. He conducted consulting professorships for diverse companies, such as Samsung Electronics Company, Hyundai Kia Motor, SK Telecom, Maeil Dairy, Amorepacific, and Samsung Economic Research Institute(SERI).
He has a Ph.D in marketing from Northwestern University(1989), an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin(1984), and a bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University(1982).