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About speaker: Ms. Sung Kim is the Director and Co-founder of the National Korean Studies Seminar.
Graduate of Seoul National University, she has taught in the Korean dual language program in LAUSD
and HLPUSD for 23 years. She is also the President of International Korean Educators Network (IKEN)
and a board member and former president of K-12 Korean Language Teachers Association. She played
a major role in developing the K-12 online Korean Curriculum and online Korean Course. She was
awarded as 2011 Distinguished Teacher of the Year from the Ministry of Education in South Korea and
was awarded the Global Korea Award from Michigan University in 2017.

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