Professor NO Sung Hwan of the Japanese Department of University of Ulsan in Korea had been visiting scholar of IEAS since September 2016. On 24 February 2017, a farewell dinner was held before he left to re-assume his professor position with University of Ulsan.

Looking back, working as a team with the faculty of IEAS, Professor No Sung Hwan much has been accomplished for IEAS with his overwhelming support of Korean language education for postgraduate students and original academic researches. He improved both the research and teaching of IEAS in order to remain a leading research institute in East Asian studies in China. He presented his research findings at leading universities in China, including Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University and Beijing Foreign Studies University. Professor No also had field researches in various areas in China. He virtually shared his experiences and findings from these field trips with IEAS, thereby showing divergent understandings of the potentials for original researches in new academic fields and more robust approaches to enhance IEAS’s academic excellence.