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The Tae-Joon Park Institute for Future Strategy opened in February 2013. What follows is its record since then.

  1. 2013

    • 1.17POSTECH Board of Trustees resolves to found the Tae-Joon Park Institute for Future Strategy
    • 2.15The Institute opens
    • 5.16Prof. Kwang-Woong Choi appointed first Executive Director
    • 8.22Forum “The Road Ahead for the TJ Park Institute” held
  2. 2014

    • 2.19First Management Committee of 2014
    • 3.28First Future Strategy Research Committee of 2014
    • 5.20Institute research plan finalised
    • 5.262014 Student Research Paper Contest announced
    • 6.82014 designated future-strategy projects commissioned
    • 7.1Textbook for secondary-school students, The Life and Leadership of Park Tae-joon, published
    • 8.30Textbook for university students, The Founding Spirit of POSCO and the Leadership of Chungam, published
    • 9.17The Institute’s website opens
    • 12.9Future Strategy Forum 2014 and the second Future Strategy Research Committee of 2014 held
  3. 2015

    • 2.15Toward a Top Research University, on POSTECH’s founding philosophy, published with an accompanying film
    • 2.27First Management Committee and Future Strategy Research Committee of 2015
    • 3.152015 designated future-strategy projects commissioned
    • 4.12015 Student Essay Contest opens
    • 5.15Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 1 — Leadership for the Future Society and How Advanced Nations Produce Their Elites published
    • 7.22015 Student Essay Contest awards ceremony
    • 8.15TJ Park research volume The Great Encounter — Park Chung-hee and Park Tae-joon published
    • 10.19Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 2 — Korean Society Ten Years From Now published
    • 10.22TJ Park Research Series, Vol. 8 — The Role of Park Tae-joon’s Leadership in Korea’s Economic Growth and Its Application to Developing Countries published
    • 12.3Second Future Strategy Research Committee of 2015 held
    • 12.3Future Strategy Forum 2015 held
  4. 2016

    • 2.25Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 3 — Innovation in Korea’s Administrative Bureaucracy and Preparing for Unification published
    • 4.12016 Student Essay Contest opens
    • 4.15First Future Strategy Research Committee of 2016
    • 4.202016 designated future-strategy projects commissioned
    • 5.16Prof. Byeang Hyean Kim appointed second Executive Director
    • 7.14–15 2016 contest awards ceremony and POSTECH Vision Camp held
    • 10.31Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 4 — A Map of Happiness in Korea published
    • 12.1Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 5 — Homo Convergence: the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Future Society published
  5. 2017

    • 2.24Fourth Future Strategy Forum and the first research committee of 2017 held
    • 2.24Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 6 — Korean Society, Where To? published
    • 5.12017 Student Essay Contest opens
    • 6.52017 designated future-strategy projects commissioned
    • 6.12Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 7 — Toward a University of the Highest Value: POSTECH at Its Thirty-Year Turning Point published
    • 8.17–18 2017 contest awards ceremony and POSTECH Vision Camp held
    • 10.20Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 8 — Univer+City: Universities and Cities Thriving Together published
  6. 2018

    • 1.18Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 9 — Civil Society and Democracy Beyond the Candlelight published
    • 1.26Fifth Future Strategy Forum held
    • 5.14Fifth Student Essay Contest opens
    • 5.16Prof. Seunghwan Kim appointed third Executive Director
    • 8.24–25 Fifth contest awards ceremony and 2018 POSTECH Vision Camp held
    • 11.28Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 10 — This Way to the Exit published
    • 12.20Fourth Univer+City Forum held
  7. 2019

    • 2.11Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 11 — A Blocked Society and Its Ways Out published
    • 2.13Sixth Future Strategy Forum held
    • 4.15Forum “The Awakening of Mount Paektu: What Should We Do?” held
    • 6.5Pohang Future Vision Forum, marking seventy years of city status, held
    • 8.1Sixth Student Essay Contest opens
    • 9.24Leadership programme for Pohang’s seventy-member Citizens’ Committee held
    • 11.28Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 12 — Another Intelligence, Happiness for the Next Fifty Years published
    • 11.29Seventh Future Strategy Forum held
    • 11.29–12.1 Sixth contest awards ceremony and 2019 POSTECH Vision Camp held
  8. 2020

    • 3.1Prof. Seunghwan Kim reappointed as Executive Director
    • 11.27First future-strategy roundtable held
    • 12.1TJ Park Research Series The Leadership of Park Tae-joon for Global Talent, with workbook published
    • 12.4Second future-strategy roundtable held
  9. 2021

    • 5.20–6.24 POSTECH graduate-student leadership programme (first and second cohorts)
    • 6.30Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 13 — The Pandemic and Korea’s Great Transition published
    • 11.19The Institute relocates
    • 12.3Symposium marking the tenth anniversary of Park Tae-joon’s death held
  10. 2022

    • 1.18–27 POSTECH graduate-student leadership programme (third cohort)
    • 3.21Prof. Woo-Sung Jung appointed fourth Executive Director
  11. 2023

    • 9.25POSTECH–CMU City Future Forum held
    • 11.28Nobel Week guide Everything About the Nobel Prize published
    • 12.27CES guide The Future Society Seen Through CES published
  12. 2024

    • 1.24–25 POSTECH graduate-student leadership programme held
    • 7.4POSTECH on the Move, essays from Nobel Week and CES, published
    • 11.5Prof. Hee-Kap Ahn appointed fifth Executive Director
  13. 2025

    • 9.1Prof. Minseok Song appointed sixth Executive Director
  14. 2026

    • 2.25Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 14 — Empires of Ideas published
    • 4.23Future Strategy Research Series, Vol. 15 — Becoming MIT published

※ Translated from the Korean record, which is the authoritative version.