한국영어교육학회

Dear Members of KATE,

I wish all members of the Korea Association of Teachers of English (KATE) good health and success amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is a great honor for me to be the 30th president of KATE, which, itself, has been the history of English education in Korea for over half a century. I would like to sincerely thank the former presidents and senior members for their hard work whose dedication has made KATE the representative society of English education in Korea, and I, with the new board members of KATE, will spare no effort in making a new leap and advancing forward.

The academic society provides a place for academic and human exchanges among members through conferences and journals. KATE will become a society where all members can gather at the conference hall to share their ideas about English education and feel a sense of belonging. KATE’s academic conference will show a new trend, in line with the changing environment of the academic conference after the corona pandemic. We will establish a hybrid academic conference that runs both online and offline in a new form. Not only the format of the conference, but also the composition and contents of the conference will take a new form. We will create KATE's academic conference that can satisfy both the new and old academic generations, and where English teachers in the field can participate more actively.

KATE’s academic journal, English Teaching, will also be renewed. We will not be satisfied with the SCOPUS indexed journal, but will work closely with editorial and publishing experts to make it a world-class English education journal.

KATE will prepare a system to support the younger generations of academics and English teachers in the field. We will prepare various ways to encourage graduate students and young researchers to pursue academic studies, and explore ways of teaching English as a more practical study in cooperation with English teachers in the field.

All of the board members of KATE will establish and promote mid-to-long-term development plans for the advancement of the society in addition to the aforementioned development directions. Through the full support and active participation of our members, KATE will advance one step further.

I wish all members of KATE happiness and health.

Thank you very much.

Jongbai Hwang
President of the KATE