Yoonkyung Yuh
Faculty
member, Ewha Womans University
Education
- Ph.D., September, 1998, Family Resource Management Graduate Program of the
Consumer and Textile Sciences
Department, The Ohio State University (September, 1994 — August, 1998 )
Dissertation title: Adequacy of preparation for retirement: Mean and
pessimistic case projections
Abstract- Minor area : Statistics
- Advisors : Dr. Sherman D.
Hanna and Dr. Catherine
Montalto - Advisors : Dr. Sherman D.
- Minor area : Statistics
- MS, Department of Consumer Sciences at The Ohio State University
(December, 1996) - MA, Department of Family Resource Management at the Graduate School of Ewha Womans University in
Seoul, Korea (February, 1993) - BA , Department of Family Resource Management at Ewha Womans University in
Seoul, Korea (February, 1991)- Top honors prize at graduation (summa cum laude; February, 1991)
- Academic scholarships (1987– 1990)
- Top honors prize at graduation (summa cum laude; February, 1991)
Selected Honors
and Recognitions
- Winner of $1,000 Texas Instruments Award for Outstanding Research Paper
presented at 1998 meeting of the Academy of Financial Services. - ACCI Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, Annual Conference, March, 2000
- Best Dissertation Award from the Ohio Association for Family and Consumer
Sciences, presented at 1999 meeting. - Research based on dissertation featured in an article in the New York
Times (Jan. 3, 1999) and other newspapers, and in a number of radio
broadcasts in the United States.
Teaching and Research Experience
- Teaching and Research Assistant for Dr. Sherman Hanna (September, 1996 —
May, 1998)- Section instructor for intermediate financial planning course , Winter & Spring, 1997.
- Teaching Assistant for capstone financial planning course Family Financial
Management Applications, Winter, 1997. - Teaching Assistant for capstone financial planning course Family Financial
- Section instructor for intermediate financial planning course , Winter & Spring, 1997.
- Research Assistant in Computer Applications Center
(September, 1995 — June, 1996) - Research Assistant on Consumer and Consumption Behavior, Ewha Womans
University (March, 1991– August, 1993) - Teaching Experience in Kang Il middle school in Seoul, Korea (March —
July, 1990) - Teaching License in Home Economics Education
Publications
- Financial Counseling and Planning
- Retirement Planning
- Retirement Income Adequacy
- Investment Portfolio
- Family Financial Management
- Life Cycle Hypothesis
- Statistical Issues in family resource management
Photo in
computer lab for Family Financial Management II, 1998