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Seung Taik Yang, Ph.D. has served as a director since August 2003. Dr. Yang is currently the president of Tongmyong University of Information Technology in Busan, South Korea. From 2001 to 2002, Yang served as the minister of information and communications for the Republic of Korea. Prior to that, Yang was a chair professor at Kwangwoon University and at the Information and Communications University. In 1998, he established the Information and Communications University and became its first president. Between 1992 and 1998, Yang was president of the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, served as commissioner of the Korean Communications Commission, and was a member of the Presidential Council for Science and Technology. From 1986 to 1992, Yang founded and was president of Korea Informatics Telesis, Inc. and Korea Telecomm International, both of which are telecommunication companies and subsidiaries of Korea Telecom. Yang holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea. | 