Mrs. Shim Jai Ok to be honored with 2018 O'Donnell Award

One of the highlights of the 2018 Annual Meeting will be the presentation of this year’s Kevin O’Donnell Award to Mrs. Shim Jai Ok, an extraordinary woman who for the past 41 years has been on the staff of the Korea-American Educational Commission (aka ‘the Fulbright Program’). She joined the KAEC in 1977 as an Administrative Officer, became Deputy Director in 1990 and was appointed the Executive Director in 2004. Mrs. Shim began her remarkable career in 1967 as a Korean language and cultural instructor for the K-3 and K-5 groups of Peace Corps Korea volunteers.  A recent article in the Fulbright publication, Infusion, notes that “her impact can be seen and felt in the lives and careers of the thousands of teachers, researchers, and scholars she has welcomed to the Fulbright Korea community.”

Click here to read the article about Mrs. Shim.

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