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POSCO selects TJ Park Prize winners

By Korea Herald

Published : March 27, 2013 - 19:40

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Three winnners for the TJ Park Prize are Mindlele Noodles CEO Seo Yeong-nam (left), Yangeob High School principal Yoon Byeong-hoon (center), and KAIST life science professor Kim Eun-joon. (POSCO) Three winnners for the TJ Park Prize are Mindlele Noodles CEO Seo Yeong-nam (left), Yangeob High School principal Yoon Byeong-hoon (center), and KAIST life science professor Kim Eun-joon. (POSCO)
Steelmaker POSCO’s TJ Park Foundation named three winners for its annual TJ Park prize Wednesday.

The science prize was given to Kim Eun-joon, a life sciences professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the education prize went to Yoon Byeong-hoon, first principal of Yangeob High School, and the community service prize went to Seo Yeong-nam, the head of a local restaurant.

Each of them were awarded a medal and prize money of 200 million won ($180,000), officials said.

The foundation, named after POSCO’s founder Park Tae-joon, has been awarding prizes for outstanding achievements in the fields of science, education and social services since 2006.

By Bae Hyun-jung (tellme@heraldcorp.com)

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