About

Joo-Kyung Park, PhD, is a professor in the Department of English Language at Honam University, Gwangju, South Korea. She has served as director of the International Culture Center and as director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Honam. She was also a radio show host at Gwangju Foreign Language Network (GFN) and at Far-East Broadcasting Company (FEBC), a local Christian radio station. She is on the board of directors of GFN and the Gwangju International Center (GIC). Dr. Park is a former president of Korea TESOL and the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK). She has also served as the journal editor-in-chief for Korea TESOL and Global English Teachers’ Association. She is a founding member of AsiaTEFL, where she has served in numerous executive positions over the years, and is currently incoming president for the association. Her research interests include teacher education, speech/pronunciation, critical pedagogy, World Englishes, and intercultural communication.