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 Dr. Kang has lived the life of a pioneer, a firm believer that when you think positively, you soon come to the conclusion that no matter how hard a challenge may be, hardly anything is impossible. When people asked him how he could create his own satellite schools when no one else in the Korean community had even tried, he said, “Why not?”
In 1993, as a third year doctoral student at USC, he became the director of the satellite campus of Montclair College Preparatory School in Van Nuys, California. He was keenly aware that representatives of the Korean communities in Los Angeles had not yet been accepted within the leadership of the city’s educational institutions. His vision as a doctoral student called for more than a traditional Korean tutoring business. He envisioned American-style but Korean-run academic programs becoming officially recognized and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (hereafter WASC, 미국 정규학교,대학 교과검정기간에서 인정하는).
( 교육감 동문 들과 함께있는 강박사)
In 1997 he was the only Korean student (and in fact the only Asian) in USC's Summer Superintendent Seminar. Probably because the large-scale immigration of Koreans to the Los Angeles area is a relatively recent phenomenon, few ethnic Korean educators hold executive positions in the L.A. area. His students at the Montclair satellite campus included not only Korean-Americans domiciled in the Los Angeles area but also young Korean nationals who wished to enroll in American universities. Some were troubled kids whose prior academic achievement did not qualify them for admission to high-ranking schools. The universities to which Dr. Kang's students were subsequently admitted include Harvard, Cornell, UCLA, USC, and Boston University.
During summer school some parents drove as much as two hours to enable their students to attend Dr. Kang's classes. Some of them were Korean nationals who were attending international schools; others were on English-learning trips. In teaching college preparatory courses, Dr. Kang applied theories he learned in the course of his doctoral studies at USC. In teaching English he implemented principles developed by his advisor, Professor Stephen Krashen (who originated the Input Hypothesis) as well as those of other world-renowned experts in linguistics and the acquisition of English as a second language.
 Dr. Kang was born in the Kim Hae rice fields in Korea and finished his elementary- and middle-school education in Kim Hae. For his high school education he moved to Busan, which is the 2nd largest city in Korea.
His mother (a single parent), who had been given the gift of education at a time when Korean women were not supposed to learn to read, persuaded him that knowledge is the key to a good life. He came to America in 1981, traveled from New York to Mississippi in search of educational opportunities in the U.S., and finally settled in Los Angeles because its mild climate enabled him to reduce his living expenses to a bare minimum. He began his studies at Los Angeles City College while working part-time, and then transferred to USC. There he majored in Linguistics and obtained a B. A. degree, then pursued graduate studies in TESL for which he received an M.S. degree. He received a doctorate in Education from USC in 2003. For his achievements Dr. Kang was spotlighted as an American success story on pp. 30-31 of the University of Southern California 1996 Year Book.
(그의성공적 이야기는, USC 남가주대 졸업 엘범에 크게 소게)
The Korean Government has often emphasized the importance of English proficiency and recently announced a plan for many schools to teach English solely in English, and gradually other subjects solely in English as well. However, courses at those schools about the Korean language and culture would be taught in Korean at all levels from primary school up through the undergraduate level at universities. Many international schools now exist in Korea and have been fully accredited by WASC and/or other accrediting organizations. Dr. Kang is now seeking to make contributions to Korean education in Korea.
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