Yonsei University announced on February 4 that David J. Park, the founder of South Baylo University in California, is to receive his diploma from Yonsei University in this year's commencement ceremony. Mr. Park entered Yonsei in 1950 as a student at the Department of Political Science & International Studies, but was not able to take 2 academic credits needed for his graduation. In 2009, he took a cyber course to make up for the needed academic credits. On February 22, his diploma will be conferred by the university president Kim Han-joong. For David J. Park, whose Korean name is Park Joon-hwan, it was to go to America that made him leave the campus. In 1955, right after the Korean War, he went to America with Kim Un-yong, who was in the same department at the time with him and later became I.O.C. Vice President. Mr. Park received his doctorate in economics in USC in 1962 and worked as a professor of economics at University of Maryland and California State Polytechnic University until 1966. In 1977, he founded South Baylo University. Thanks to the establishment of diplomatic relationship between the US and China in 1972 and legalization of acupuncture in 1975, South Baylo University was able to make a huge progress. As a school of acupuncture and oriental medicine, it is currently the largest educational institution in the United States for acupuncture and oriental medicine. Mr. Park is also in the front line of introducing Taekwondo to the world. The Department of Taekwondo at CalUMS (California University of Management and Sciences), also founded by Mr. Park in 1987, is currently pending approval for its foundation.