“As a wife, I wanted to express my gratitude for the Inbong Scholarship, which helped my husband.”
HKP Partners’ CEO Park Jun-hee donated 100 million KRW to KU’s Inbong Scholarship fund, which helped her husband graduate.
Beginning in 1985, the Inbong Scholarship has helped students who have difficulties in paying their educational fees each semester.

▲ (From left) Heo Jun-yeol, a KU graduate; Park Jun-hee, CEO of HKP Partners; and Kim Dong-one, KU President.

HKP Partners’ CEO Park Jun-hee donated 100 million KRW to KU’s Inbong Scholarship fund, which helped her husband Heo Jun-yeol graduate, as he received when he was attending the school.

KU held the ‘HKP Partners’ CEO Park Jun-hee Inbong Scholarship Fund Donation Ceremony’ at the President’s Office in the Main Hall at KU on Monday July 22 at 1:40 p.m.

The Inbong Scholarship, founded in 1985 on the basis of a donation from CEO Kim Kyung-eun of Keumhan Industries, each semester selects 10 students with excellent academic performance and difficulty in paying their tuition, and provides them with scholarships. Students who long ago received the Inbong Scholarship while they were attending KU are even now donating to the fund, in this way making great efforts to maintain the Inbong Scholarship.

Heo Jun-yeol (Division of Food Bioscience and Technology, Class of 82), who was the first recipient of the Inbong Scholarship and has been the chairman of the Inbong Scholarship alumni association since 2012, has also been steadily donating to the fund in order to help young KU students. Accordingly, Park Jun-hee, the wife of Heo Jun-yeol, has also donated to the Inbong Scholarship fund, making it a family commitment.

▲ CEO Park Jun-hee and her husband Heo Jun-yeol, who attended the donation ceremony (left).

At the donation ceremony, Park said, “I learned that my husband was able to attend KU because he received the Inbong Scholarship. Although it is belated, I wanted to express my gratitude as his wife to KU and to CEO Kim Kyung-eun, who helped my husband.” She added, “I hope that KU students can focus on their studies with the help of the Inbong Scholarship and achieve their dreams, just like my husband has.”

Heo Jun-yeol said, “In those days when I even took the bus sparingly, the Inbong Scholarship was like my own blood to me. I was able to graduate thanks to it.” He continued, “I have always owed a debt of gratitude for the help I received during my college years, so I have formed the habit of donating, even if it is small amounts. I was really grateful when my wife, who knew about this, said she would also donate to the Inbong Scholarship fund. I hope that our younger KU students will not be frustrated by their disadvantaged economic situation but continue to move forward into the future with the help of the Inbong Scholarship.”

KU President Kim Dong-one said, “We express our deep gratitude to Ms. Park Jun-hee for donating to the KU Inbong Scholarship fund together with her husband. I’m sure that Ms. Park’s donation will become a new precedent in KU’s history of donations, and will serve as an inspiring example for many.” President Kim added, “The contribution that Ms. Park has made to the Inbong Scholarship fund will be a great help in supporting KU students in their growth into creative talents so that they may be able to exhibit their leadership capacities in the future.”