Kang Kyung-sook Professor Kang Kyung-sook received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Ewha Womans University. After serving as an associate professor at Seoul National University of Technology, Professor Kang continued her career at Chungbuk National University as a full professor in the Department of Archaeology and Art History, then as a director of Chungbuk National University Museum and a visiting professor in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Dong-A University. She served as president of the Association of Korean Art History and Association of Korean Art History Education. She was formerly a member of the advisory committees of the Cultural Properties Administration of Korea and the Cultural Properties Administration of Gyeongsangbuk-do and Chungcheongbuk-do provinces.
Her major publications include A Study of Buncheong Ware, The History of Korean Ceramics, A Study of the History of Korean Ceramics, and A Study of Korean Ceramic Kiln Sites, a detailed and methodological examination of the more than 150 kiln sites that have yielded academically significant findings. The History of Korean Ceramics, originally published in 1989, was the first comprehensive history of the field, and in 2012, it was completely revised, updated, and expanded to incorporate new discoveries made between 1989 and 2011. Her lifetime contributions to the study of buncheong ware and her prolific research on buncheong chronology solidify her status as the leading authority in the field.
At present, Professor Kang works as the director of the Jungwon Institute for Cultural Properties. She also serves as an appraiser of cultural properties for the Gyeonggi Provincial Museum.
Professor Kang received the Uhyeon (Koh Yu-sup) Award for the publication of A Study of Buncheong Ware and the Paradise (formerly Wookyoung) Award from the Paradise Culture Foundation for her work in The History of Korean Ceramics.

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