Pak Un-jong or Park Un-jong (

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: 박은정;

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: 朴恩正; born 2 October 1952) is a South Korean

bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, med ...

expert previously served as President

Moon Jae-in Moon Jae-in (; ; born 24 January 1953) is a South Korean former politician, civil servant and lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea between 2017 and 2022. Prior to his presidency, he served as Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs an ...

's first chairperson of

Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission The Korean Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) was launched on February 29, 2008 by merging three related government entities: the Ombudsman of Korea, the Korea Independent Commission Against Corruption and the Administrative Appea ...

. She is the sixth person and second woman to lead the Commission ever since it was created in 2008. Pak has developed her career as an expert in law and

. She taught at College of Law of

Ewha Womans University Ewha Womans University () is a private women's university in Seoul founded in 1886 by Mary F. Scranton under Emperor Gojong. It was the first university founded in South Korea. Currently, Ewha is one of the world's largest female educational ins ...

for over two decades as an assistant professor from 1980, an associate professor from 1985 and a professor from 1990. In 2004 she became the first non-Seoul National University-graduate to become a law professor at the SNU law school which she assumed till 2018. From 1998 to 2002 she served as the 7th president of Korean Association of Legal Philosophy. From 1999 to 2001 she was a member of Administrative Appeals Commission. From 2010 she is leading Asian Women Law Society and its research Institute. Pak was a member of

International Bioethics Committee The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) of UNESCO is a body composed of 36 independent experts from all regions and different disciplines (mainly medicine, genetics, law, and philosophy) that follows progress in the life sciences and its applica ...

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from 1998 to 2004 and Council for Comprehensive Biotechnology Policy of now-

Ministry of Science and ICT The Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT; ; Hanja: 科學技術情報通信部) is a ministry of the government of South Korea. It succeeded the former Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. The headquarters was originally in Gwacheon, Gyeong ...

, which is established by Biotechnology Support Act, from 2000 to 2004. In 2002 she was elected as the vice chair of Korean Association of

Institutional Review Boards An institutional review board (IRB), also known as an independent ethics committee (IEC), ethical review board (ERB), or research ethics board (REB), is a committee that applies research ethics by reviewing the methods proposed for research to ens ...

. From 2002 to 2007 she chaired Ethics Committee of Stem Cell Research Center for Drug Development of Korea. She was vice chair of Asian Bioethics Association from 2004 to 2008 and National Bioethics Committee of Korea from 2008 to 2011. She graduated from

in 1974 and

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

in 1978 with Bachelor and Doctoral degree in law respectively.

Awards

* 46th National Academy of Sciences Award Humanities and Social Sciences division by National Academy of Sciences of South Korea (2001) *

Order of Service Merit The Order of Service Merit (Hangul: 근정훈장) is one of South Korea's orders of merit. It is awarded by the President of South Korea to public officials, private school teachers, and special post office employees for "outstanding meritorious ...

by the government of South Korea (2002)

References

External links

Chairperson of Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission Profile
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