Minho Jo is an academic manager in King Sejong Institute Berlin and PhD candidate at the Institute of Korean Studies at Freie Universität Berlin as well. He has studied and worked in various fields in many regions. After graduating from an undergraduate degree in humanities in Korea, he studied international relations and international business in the U.S, and worked in the business industry for a long time as global marketing director and business strategy counselor in both Korea and the U.S..

He also has expanded the scope of his studies to Korean language education as a foreign language and has been working for teaching Korean language & culture since 2021. He joined the Institute for Korean Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in 2024 as both Ph.D candidate in the field of international politics and as the academic manager of the King Sejong Institute in Berlin as well.

His research interests include geopolitical International relations research surrounding the Korean peninsular, aspects of domestic conflict in South Korea, new global strategies of South Korean companies, contents based Korean language learning and business Korean language studies.

Hankook Univ. of Foreign Studies (HUFS) (Seoul, Korea) / MA, 2021

• Major: Korean Education as a Foreign Language (KFL)
• Thesis: “Study on Korean Culture Syllabus Design in Contents Based Instruction for Developing Intercultural Communicativ Competence (For Korean Language Learners for Academic Purpose)”

Univ. of Baltimore Maryland (Baltimore, MD, US) / MBA, 2002

• Concentration: International Business Management

Univ. of Houston (Houston, TX, US) / MA,1999

• Major: Political Science (Concentration: International Politics)
• Thesis: “An Analysis of the Liberal Internationalism of the Clinton Administration and its Application to Northeast Asia”

Chungnam National University (Daejeon, Korea) / BA, 1995

• Major: German Language & Literature

King Sejong Institute / KSI of Korean cultural center in Germany, KSI Minsk in Belarus / Jan.2022~Dec.2023

• Korean language lecturer 

GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group) / Oct.2021~Jun. 2024

• business strategy consultant

Woosong Information University International Education Center / Daejon, Korea  / Aug. 2021~Dec. 2021

• Korean Language Lecturer

LG Electronics Co. Ltd. HQ / Oversea Sales & MKTG America Team / Seoul, Korea  / Jan.2014~Dec.2020

• Business Planning Team Leader 

 LG Electronics US / LA, CA & Englewood Cliffs, NJ US / Jan.2008~Dec.2013

• HE IT Product LA branch head & IT product marketing director

LGE HQ / DS Overseas Sales & Marketing Team /  Seoul, Korea / May 2003 ~ Dec. 2007

• Regional Account Manager
  • Major tasks: market research / product launch / channel management/ 4P strategies / branding / SCM / Quality & SVC

• Certificate of Korean Language Teacher (Level 2) ( 2021)

• Korean Language Teaching (Business Korean / Vocabulary Expansion Method / Content-based Language Teaching - Korean Politics, Society & POP Culture - )
• International Relations Research (Lessons from the Russian-Ukrainian War on the Korean Peninsula / Geopolitical Research around the Korean Peninsula)