Mr. Lim Byung-kul is Executive Managing Director of Strategy & Planning Division. He joined KBS as a journalist in 1987. Since then he took up various responsibilities as Director of Social Affairs and of Economy. From 1999 to 2002 he was dispatched to Tokyo, Japan as correspondent. He was a front man of Sunday Analysis, one of the main KBS current affairs programs, leading debates on issues of national importance in 2007. He was honored with Journalism Award by Kwanhun Club, an influential organization of journalists and reporters, in 1998. Mr. Lim gruaduated Korea University with BA in Law and Sogang Uuniversity with MA in Communication Studies.