Wonhwa CEO Honored with Order of Industrial Service, Gold Tower

Credited with contributing to the development of the Korean specialty construction industry

Wonhwa Construction President & CEO Park Duk-hyum was decorated with the Order of Industrial Service, Gold Tower, in recognition of his contribution to the development of the Korean construction industry at the recent Construction Day celebration.
CEO Park has been in the construction field for more than 30 years, beginning his career at the Korean Railway Technology Association in 1977 and as a civil engineering official of the Seoul Metropolitan Government. He then founded Wonwha Construction 24 years ago and grew it into a construction group with five construction-related subsidiaries.
His more than two decades of efforts to ensure efficient and transparent management has contributed to evolving Wonhwa into a contactor with a top-rated competitive edge. In the process, he has demonstrated staunch craftmanship as a construction technician, developed customer-oriented management tenets, a challenging entrepreneurial spirit and sincerity, which have been combined together with his policy of securing excellent technology manpower to make Wonhwa a civil engineering leader.
Wonhwa has been putting more energy into ensuring quality management of construction projects by repairing old bridges and subways using scores of new technologies and patents the company has obtained through its massive investments into the development of advanced technologies and new engineering methods, which has contributed to the advancement of the domestic repair and reinforcement sector. The company has been throwing its heart and soul into developing new technologies related to environmental protection and the recycling of resources in such areas as blasting, tunneling and tap water/waste water.
In an effort to ensure construction manpower development, an essential factor for the development of the domestic construction industry, Wonhwa has concluded a pact with Seoul National University of Technology to inaugurate a bachelor's degree program for educating construction industry employees. CEO Park himself has concurrently taught students at the university to nurture construction manpower.
He founded a welfare foundation designed to translate into action the return of corporate revenues to society, and he has been engaged in volunteering activities serving the elderly and the underprivileged while serving as a director of the Korean Elderly People's Association.
Park takes the lead in the promotion of the national sports arena by providing support to athletes so that they can set better records to raise Korea's standing abroad. He has held such posts as the senior vice chairman of the Korea Cycling Federation and the Korea Handball Federation. He has been praised for promoting a sound society and culture as he worked as the deputy of the Seoul Canticle Choir and the advisor of the Sea Explorers of Korea, Seoul Branch. He has also contributed to the development of his neighborhood community by holding such posts as an adviser of the Seoul Suseo Police Station Administration Development Committee.
Wonwha CEO Park, who now concurrently serves as the president of the Korea Specialty Contractors Association (KOSCA), is credited with contributing to the development of the Korean specialty construction industry. He has been involved in the revision of related acts and regulations for the purpose of the sound cultivation and advancement of the construction industry, one of the nation's mainstay industries; the establishment of steps designed to ensure fair trading practices through co-existence and co-prosperity among contractors and subcontractors; and the promotion of collaboration among academic, industry and research circles, among others. nw

Prime Minister Han Seung-soo decorates Wonhwa Construction President & CEO Park Duk-hyum, who is concurrently chairman of the Korea Specialty Contractors Association, with the Order of Industrial Service, Gold Tower at the Construction Day anniversary event.