Korean Functional Foods (ePub)

Dr. Kun-Young Park is Professor in the Dept. of Food Science and Nutrition,Pusan National University, in Busan, Korea. He earned a food science degree and masters of science at Korea University and completed his PhD in food science at the University of Nebraska . Professor Park's research interests are 1) Korean traditional foods and their cancer prevention and antiobesity effect and 2) Phytochemicals, functional foods, anticancer and antiobesity. Currently his research is on Korean fermented functional foods, such as Kimchi (Korean fermented vegetables), Doenjang (Soybean fermented paste), Kochujang (Red pepper powder-soybean fermented paste), and their chemopreventive and antiobesity effects. He has published approximately 400 research papers and reviews, and have been invited or presented more than 800 papers at domestic or international symposia.Dr. Kwon received his Ph.D. in Biological Science and Biotechnology from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul in 1986. After finishing his postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute, MIT, Cambridge, USA, he has started his research as a research scientist at Korea Food Research Institute (KFRI). He worked at KFRI in the field of food biological chemistry. He worked as adjunct professor at Sookmyung Women's University in 1997-2003. He is a representative professor of United University of Science and Technology since 2004. He worked as a Director of Emerging Food Technology Division, Director of Food Convergence, etc. in KFRI. In 2014, he was the president of KFRI. After resigning his position, he worked as an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Ethnic Foods published by Elsevier and vice-president of Korean Society of Foods and Nutrition. He has studied the anti-metabolic syndrome, and anti-aging food. He had experience to collaboration work with Institute of Food Research (IFR), Norwich, UK. He has published more than 250 research papers in several renowned SCI international