My life is devoted to education. My career has taken me to many paths: from private schools to graduate schools, classrooms to administrative offices, instructorship to tenured professorship, school reformer in Korea to a visiting scholar in the United States and Canada. As an educator, my drive and success originates from the lessons I learned as a youth in the Korean rural neighbourhoods, where sweat outbid brains as tools of trade in the workplace. During the course of my scholastic career, I experienced struggle and joy, patience and humility, challenge and achievement. I consider these experiences my calling to serve for the betterment of the human character, for it is through them that I have grown as a human being and as a professional educator.

A few years ago, while pursuing my studies in the field of sociolinguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto, I realized that my chosen path was taking another turn: it was time for me to discover a new educational medium through which I could contribute my experience, knowledge and enthusiasm for learning more fully. With this in mind, I accepted the title and responsibility of principal of Queen's College.

Queen's College is a place where virtue and discipline are paramount. These principles are realized through academic practice and it is our aim to spread them to every corner of the globe.

Jooyon David Cho, Ph.D.
Principal