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Objectives of Education
Major in Applied Plant Science deals with the theories and techniques for naturally-harmonized plant production and agro-ecosystems that are essential for human life. The major also pursues an exploration of life phenomena in crops at levels from molecular to landscape through understanding of plants’ heredity, physiology, and environments as well as interrelationships, in order to conserve both productivity and quality of crops. The educational goal is to raise global talents through teaching and training on the following: 1) breeding novel crop varieties using conventional and molecular tools; 2) understanding the mechanism of plant adaptation to abiotic and biotic stresses; 3) identifying, understanding, and producing new substances in industrial and medicinal plants having specific functions; 4) establishing sustainable agricultural systems by minimizing limiting factors to crop production; and 5) understanding crop responses to global change, and developing strategies to cope with this change.
Licenses available(Industrial) Engineer in Seeds, (Industrial) Engineer in Plant Protection, Middle School Teacher, etc.
Jobs Available after GraduationGraduates will have many career opportunities for getting a wide range of job position. For example, the offered curricula have several areas of concentration to suit the needs of students to pursue a career in research and extension at private and government institutes or in teaching at middle and high schools. Faculty positions will also be available for Ph.D. graduates who achieve higher levels of qualification in research and education. Other employment opportunities exist in seed companies, agro-chemical companies, agricultural cooperatives, and plant quarantine organizations.
Faculty members- Han-Yong Kim (Ph.D.) Agro-meteorology
- Jonghan Ko (Ph.D.) Crop Environmental Ecology
- Ok-Ran Lee (Ph.D.) Special Crop Science
- Bo-Keun Ha (Ph.D.) Crop Genetics & Breeding
- Jaeil Cho (Ph.D.) Climatological Crop Physiology