Awards
and Skills

Honors/Awards:  

• Best Paper of the Year Award (Journal of Distribution Science, Korea Distribution Science Association, December 2010). Title: “Effects of customers’ demographic profile on mobile commerce adoption,” Journal of Distribution Science, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 5-11. ISSN 1738-3110. Co-authored with James F. Cormier.
• Distinguished Research Award (Allied Academies, Fall 2009 International Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 14-16, 2009). Academy of Marketing Studies: Title “Demographic differences on the perceptions of electronic commerce adoption.”
• Distinguished Research Award (Allied Academies, Spring 2009 International Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 14-16, 2009). Academy of Marketing Studies: Title “Relationship between consumer personality and brand personality as self-concept.”
• Distinguished Research Award (Allied Academies, Spring 2008 International Conference, Tunica, Mississippi, April 2-4, 2009). Academy of Entrepreneurship: Title “Recent evidence of small business development in transition economies.”
• Best Paper Award (International Management Development Association, Twelfth World Business Congress, Vancouver, Canada, June 25-29, 2003). Title: “Motivation-experience-performance process in understanding Internet consumer behavior.”
• Best Professor Award (Kazakh British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, December 2006)

Professional Qualifications/Certificates:

• Specialist of Business Management Consulting (SMBA, 2002)
• Specialist of Logistics Management (MOCT, 2001)
• Specialist of Electronic Commerce Management (KITA, 2000)
• Specialist of International Trade (KITA, 1998)
• Specialist of Shipping Management (MOMAF, 1991)

Language Capabilities

• Multilingual. Native Korean
• Fluent in English, Proficient in Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Russian.

Computer Skills

• Skilled User of HTML, Java Script, VBScript, MS-Office, Dream-weaver MX, and Statistical Analysis Packages: SAS, SPSS, AMOS, EXCEL.

Memberships of Academic Associations

• International Development Management Association (IDMA)
• World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD)
• Korea Distribution Association (KODIA)
• Korea Distribution Science Association (KODISA)
• Korean Academy of Marketing Science (KAMS)