Education | Research | Interests | Professional Experience | Courses Taught

Education

Ph.D. Accounting, The Pennsylvania State University, 2014 (expected)

MBA, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2003

        Concentration: Finance

        Master’s Thesis: “Analysis on the correlation between EVA and stock price of financial Institutions”

B.S., Statistics (minor in Business Admin.), Magna Cum Laude

Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, 1999

Research

• The Effect of CEO Employment Agreement on the release of good news (Job Market Paper)

• CEO Employment Contract Horizon and Earnings Management with Guojin Gong and Juan Wang

Interests

Earnings Management

Compensation

Disclosure

Analyst forecasting

Globalization

Linguistic analysis of corporate financial reports

Professional Experience

Senior Associate, Financial Service-Business Advisory Service,

Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC) Nov. 2001-Aug. 2006

(Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers is the Korean member firm of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization).

Courses Taught

• Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University

  Accounting 211 : Financial and Managerial Accounting Decision Making at undergraduate level (2010)

          Instructor Quality Rating 6.97 out of 7.0

  Accounting 211: Financial and Managerial Accounting Decision Making at undergraduate level (2009)

          Instructor Quality Rating 6.72 out of 7.0

  Accounting 211: Financial and Managerial Accounting Decision Making at undergraduate level (2008)

          Instructor Quality Rating 6.52 out of 7.0

• Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, (2007)

          Instructor Quality Rating 6.71 out of 7.0

• Teaching Assistant, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, (2005)

          Introduction to Finance at Global MBA Program

• Teaching Assistant, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, (2001-2005)

         Introduction to Finance at undergraduate level