Im Jeong-seok named new director of National Security Research Institute

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced Thursday that it has appointed Im Jeong-seok, a principal researcher at the National Security Research Institute, as the institute's new director. The three-year term begins Sunday.

Im earned a bachelor's degree in electronic and telecommunications engineering from Hanyang University, followed by master's and doctoral degrees from the same institution.

Im began as a senior researcher at the Agency for Defense Development in 1989 before joining the National Security Research Institute in 2000, where he held a range of leadership roles including head of the security systems division. Im also served on the Defense Ministry's research and development review committee and as vice president for cooperation at the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology.

The National Security Research Institute is a government-funded information security research body established in 2000. It operates as an affiliate of ETRI, which is itself a government-funded research institute under the National Research Council of Science and Technology.