About us

Built at the intersection of Korean academia and global ambition.

We connect Korean universities with the next generation of internationally-minded students — and we stay with them long after acceptance. Our work begins at first inquiry and continues through visa, settlement, graduation, and the first job in Korea.

Leadership

The team behind Global Eduworking Group.

Our founders share a common path: advanced training in Korea and the United States, careers spent between Asia and the West, and a conviction that Korean higher education deserves the world's most ambitious students.

Dr. Park, Jung Hyun

KYONGGI UNIVERSITY · PH.D., GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLITICAL STUDIES

Co-founder, Strategy

Dr. Park, Jung Hyun chairs the Association of Metropolitan and Provincial Council Chairs, and earned a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Political Studies at Kyonggi University, a Master of Arts in Educational Psychology from Sookmyung Women's University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Sookmyung Women's University. At GEG, Dr. Park leads strategic partnerships with Korean institutions.

Previously

Chair of the Association of Metropolitan and Provincial Council Chairs
Ph.D., Graduate School of Political Studies, Kyonggi University
Master of Arts in Educational Psychology, Sookmyung Women's University
Bachelor of Arts in Education, Sookmyung Women's University

“To make Korean higher education legible and accessible to ambitious students from anywhere in the world.”

Gilbert Ghil

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · BA, ECONOMICS

Co-founder, Operations

Gilbert Ghil holds a BA in Economics from the University of Southern California. He spent many years as a business consultant before serving as CEO of Dae Ruk Department Store for 35 years. At GEG, he brings that operating experience to the machinery that turns partnership agreements into placed students and lasting outcomes.

Previously

Business consultant (many years)
CEO, Dae Ruk Department Store (35 years)

“Every promise we make to a student or partner must be a system, not a hope.”

Bosun Choi

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

Head of Partnerships

Bosun Choi is a graduate of the University of Oregon whose career spans twenty years operating an AICPA (U.S. CPA) preparatory academy, serving as Korea representative for American state universities including Arkansas State University and Bowling Green State University, leading Korea education programs for U.S. ASI, and helping establish an international school as its administrative director. At GEG, Bosun builds and sustains the partner relationships that bring students to our universities.

Previously

Operator, AICPA (U.S. CPA) preparatory academy — 20 years
Korea representative, U.S. state universities (Arkansas State University, Bowling Green State University, and others)
Korea education programs lead, U.S. ASI
International school establishment; administrative director

“A good partnership outlasts any single placement.”

Kevin Lee

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT · M.S., ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Head of Korea Office

Kevin Lee is an Apple Program Manager at ETS Inc. in Los Angeles, California, and served as CEO of Airnetsoft Inc. in Belmont, California. Earlier roles include project leader at LG Central Research Institute in Seoul, Korea. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Detroit, Michigan. At GEG, Kevin leads our Korea office and serves as the primary liaison with Korean universities, government bodies, and post-graduation employers.

Previously

Apple Program Manager at ETS Inc., Los Angeles, California
CEO of Airnetsoft Inc., Belmont, California
Project Leader, LG Central Research Institute, Seoul, Korea
Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Detroit, Michigan

“Korea is not just where students study — it can be where they build the rest of their lives.”

Origin

Why we started Global Eduworking Group.

It began with a question we kept hearing across our network — from Hanoi to Tashkent, from Manila to Ulaanbaatar: 'Why is it so hard to study in Korea?' Korean universities had become world-class. K-pop, K-drama, and Korean industry had drawn an entire generation toward Seoul. And yet the path for international students remained fragmented — language barriers, opaque admissions, and a maze of agencies that disappeared the moment a deposit was paid.

We had each lived this gap from one side or the other. Some of us had crossed it as students ourselves, navigating Boston and New York and Seoul without anyone telling us how the systems actually worked. Others had spent careers placing students into Korean universities, watching the same friction repeat year after year.

The structural reality matches the personal one. By 2027, Korea's higher education ministry is targeting three hundred thousand international students as part of a national commitment to position Korea among the world's top ten education destinations. Regional universities, facing a declining domestic school-age population, are already opening international intake. The demand from across Asia is real, the seats are real, and the policy direction is clear. What has been missing is the connective tissue between them.

Global Eduworking Group is the company we wished had existed when we were nineteen. Our work isn't to send students to Korea. It's to stay with them — through admission, through arrival, through the long arc that turns a student into a graduate, and a graduate into someone who chooses to build the rest of their life here.

Korean Operations

On the ground in Seoul.

Our Seoul office serves as the operational backbone of every partnership. From document review and visa coordination to airport pickup and dormitory check-in, our Korea-based team handles the on-the-ground logistics that determine whether a student's first month feels chaotic or welcoming.

We are also the daily point of contact with the universities themselves — attending information sessions, meeting with admissions offices, and surfacing changes in policy or timeline before they reach our partner agencies.

Seoul Office

4F, 13 Yeonnam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea (Yeongsang Building)

Team size: pending

Values

Three commitments we hold without exception.

Transparency

Clear commission structures, no hidden fees, and audit-ready reporting for every partner agency. The numbers we show you are the numbers we work with.

End-to-End Care

Our responsibility to a student does not end at acceptance. We accompany them through visa, arrival, settlement, graduation, and the first step into the Korean labor market.

Long-Term Partnership

We measure agency relationships in decades, not in single placements. Trust built over years is the only foundation we know how to build on.

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