HAN Soonghee is professor of education and lifelong learning in the Department of Education at Seoul National University, Republic of Korea. His academic works have focused mainly on studies of the learning society and learning ecology, comparative and global studies in lifelong learning. He has served as a foreign editorial consultant for some international journals including International Journal of Lifelong Education(UK), Journal of Adult and Continuing Education(UK) , and International Review of Education (UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning). Recently he edited two special issues for Comparative Education and Asia Pacific Eduction Review. His recent research topics are higher lifelong learning complex system, New design for a learning society, and development of authentic theoretical development of lifelong learning in East Asia.
