User:Sim Woo-kyung

Sim Woo-kyung(심우경, Mr.) was born at Korea in 1948. He studied at his home town, Geommyen, Jeonnam for primary school and then middle and high school at Gwangu ju City. He majored in horticulture at Korea University in Seoul from 1967 to 1971 and then finished military service from 1971 to 1974. He entered the Graduate School of Korea University for floriculture from 1971 to 1976 with master thesis, A Study on the rooting of Greenwood Cuttings of Acer palmatum var. Nomura(red maple) under the Vinyl Moist Chamber. And then got Ph.D with the dissertation of Research on the Betterment of Outdoor Environments for School in 1984.

He worked as landscape architect at Korea Landscape Development Corporation, state company from 1974 to 1980 and participated at the various landscape projects in Korea and Saudi Arbia such as landscape design for Korea Parliament Building, National Cemetery, National parks, Restoration of  Historical Sites, Industrial complexes, Campus and IC10 at Zeddah, Saudi Arabia and so on more than 200 projects. And then he worked as a full time lecturer, assistant and associate professor for department of landscape architecture at Jeonnanm National University from 1981 to 1988.

He moved to Korea University in Seoul and taught as professor of landscape planting design and garden history from 1988 to 2015 and then retired from Korea University in 2015 and now works as emeritus professor.

He participated as a founding member of Korean Institute of Traditional Landscape Architecture[KITLA] in 1980 and worked  as President of KITLA from 2003 to 2005 and established Korean Society of Plants, People and Environment Relationship in 1998 and worked as President from 1998 to 2002. Also he worked for Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture[KILA] as a Vice President from 2002 to 2003. He has established Research Institute for Spiritual Environments[RISE] on October4, 2015 at Korea University to research on the conservation of One Earth for the development of design theory and technology for spiritual environments. RISE is working together with Alliance of Religions and Conservation[ARC] which was established in 1995 by HRH Prince Philip.

He wrote more than 150 papers and 12 books including Korean Traditional Landscape Architecture, English edition in 2003, sell at Amazon.

contact: wksim@korea.ac.kr