Honoree-
Song-Hyon Jang

Some 40 years ago a bridge was built between two universities and two cultures — on one shore, Chung-Ang University in Korea; on the other, Long Island University in the United States. The bridge became a two-way span for exchange — students and professors, scholarship and understanding — with ever widening lanes to include other Korean institutions and ever greater cooperation. That bridge has carried a particularly extraordinary traveler.

Song-Hyon Jang received a B.S. in pharmacy from Chung-Ang University. He began his graduate studies at Chung-Ang’s Graduate School of Business Administration before coming to the College of Management on the C.W. Post Campus to earn his M.B.A. Mr. Jang cites his American educational experience as playing an instrumental role in his professional success. He has held positions with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (Novartis) and Korea McNeil, Ltd./Johnson & Johnson, in addition to serving as president of Schering (Korea) Ltd. and of S.H. Jang & Associates. Mr. Jang maintains a vigorous civic life. He is president of Korea Executive Search Consultants Association, the International Public Relations Association and the Swiss-Korea Business Council, among others. An accomplished author, he has written three books on investment, business and second careers.

In return for the education he received, Mr. Jang is committed to giving back to his American school, Long Island University. He has done so with hospitality, generosity and elegance whether opening a new avenue of communication and education, hosting a C.W. Post music group in Korea or acting as the University’s spokesman in his country. In 1996, he received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the C.W. Post Campus. Song-Hyon Jang is Long Island University’s own ambassador to Korea (and vice-versa), traversing that very important bridge.

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