Jang-Kun Song

Jang-Kun Song was born in Korea in 1971 and received his B.S. and M.S. in physics from Korea University, Seoul, Korea in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He also received a Ph.D. in electronic engineering from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland in 2008.

Song worked for the Samsung Electronics Company as a principle engineer from 1996 to 2010, and he moved to Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea in 2010.   He invented Patterned Vertical Alignment (PVA) LCD technology, which is currently the main technology used in LCD applications produced by the Samsung Company, and he holds more than 200 patents worldwide in relevant technologies. He was the recipient of the King Sejong patent award by the Korean Intellectual Office.