Sang-Min Whang

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Full Name	Sang-Min Whang
Occupation	Psychologist
Date Of Birth	Nov 10, 1962(1962-11-10)
Age	62
Birthplace	Jinhae-gu
Country	South Korea
Birth City	South Gyeongsang Province
Horoscope	Scorpio

Sang-Min Whang Biography

Sang-Min Whang is one of the most popular and richest Psychologist who was born on November 10, 1962 in Jinhae-gu, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Sang Min Leo Whang (November 10 1962 to ) is an South Korean psychologist, author and a well-known political commentary. He has conducted an empirical investigation of “the Korean Peoples’ identity & their mass- psychology” through linking it to a range of subjects like self, identity in the online world consumption as well as love and relationships as well as power and decisions. He has focused on the various psychological kinds of people and the way the human mind operates in both offline and online situations. The most famous of his research studies are WPI (Whang’s Personality Inventory) as well as research into the identities of players on online games and studies on the influence of the public image of politicians. Whang was a professor in Sejong University from 1994-1997 and at Yonsei University from 1994-2016. In January of 2016 Whang was fired from his post as an instructor in Yonsei University, by excuse of breaking an ethical code which states that one cannot hold a position outside of the professorship without the consent of the university’s president.’ There has been a lot of debate and speculation regarding the dismissal. The unusual removal of an tenured professor from his job was a retaliatory move due to Whang’s criticism of Geun-hyePark, the 11th president of South Korea. She was then impeached and removed from the presidency. The dismissal of Whang was planned and carried out by Gap Young Cheung, the president who died in Yonsei University, Gap Young Cheung who denied any involvement of the case as a university president. The former the president Gap Young Cheung had a excellent reputation, and he was aspired to hold the government as well as a Blue House position during Ms. Park’s presidency. After the impeachment process of Park. Park, Cheung retired from the school and continued on the faculty as an honorary lecturer. Whang’s demotion is seen as an an example of the oppression that is latent in the academic world by the authority. The Dr. Whang currently runs a podcast called WhangShimSo which offers free advice regarding personal and professional conflicts as well as comments on various social issues that confront Korean Society.

Sang Min Whang, a regular guest on CBS Radio’s “Mi Hwa Kim’s Everybody” program, criticized the colleges’ preferential treatment for their sports stars on Tuesday May 22, 2012.

In May 2015, Sang Min Whang researched the types of image the public has about the then President Geun Hye Park using Q Methodology and published his findings in the monthly magazine Shin Dong Ah with the title “Foolish Ruler> Face Madame >Our VIP.” According to Whang’s research, people perceived Ms. Park mainly as a “puppet.” The “puppet” image the majority of people had of Ms. Park was divided into more detailed types: foolish ruler, our VIP, and face Madame. The study simultaneously found the public expected a president with the image of a “leading hero” as an alternative to Park. This meant the public already knew through her image that Park is incompetent and, at the same time, only a sort of “ceremonious figure” with someone else calling the shots. She was being perceived as a leader that did not have the ability to govern a nation.

At the end of 2016, the occurrence of “Geun Hye Park–Soon Sil Choi Gate” shed new light on Sang Min Whang’s dismissal from Yonsei University in the press and in politics. He also took this time to reset his own values, which can be known from his words in the following: “If I could do what was enjoyable to me then I was not going to be concerned with anything else and tried hard to be indifferent and lived thinking “a professor’s duty is only to do research.” I tried to live detached from the power struggle as an aloof scholar who would occasionally observe it from afar and provide advice. But in Korea, after knowing the truth that I cannot do the work I enjoy and do well at all outside of its influence… I realized the truth that I was terminated because my desire to stay as an aloof scholar was not as clear compared to those who tried to gain power who had very clear desires and was thorough in their pursuit of it. So I thought I should no longer stay as an observer… The people were also deceived by Lee-Myung-Park-Geun-Hye because they did not face what they want and did not make it clear enough.” After diagnosing the Korean peoples’ mind as being in “a state of slavery” in relation to the “Geun Hye Park–Soon Sil Choi Gate,” Whang spoke out more proactively and clearly on his opinions in politics in the press and on his podcast after his dismissal, and is leading “the Korean Peoples’ Psychological Independence Movement” with the public through the podcast Whangshimso.

Sang Min Whang who was an anchor presenter on the radio station’s “Mi Hwa Kim’s Everybody” program, criticized colleges’ preferenceential treatment of athletes on May 22 in 2012.

Sang-Min Whang Net Worth

Sang-Min Whang is one of the richest Psychologist from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sang-Min Whang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

It was in the Spring of 1981 that Whang received admission to Seoul National University’s Social Sciences department. He has stated that it was just a matter of chance that led him to pursue a degree in Psychology. He originally enrolled in the Social Sciences department in order to become a diplomat but he began to reconsider the direction he was taking after the first semester of drinking in college. It was a huge shock for him to contemplate majoring in Sociology and then to end up living between and beyond prison later due to the political restrictions of the day. He didn’t want to be seen as someone who had to make a statement for something or someone else. He decided to study psychology because he believed it would be a great way to observe the human behaviour in a lab instead of going to remote locations when he was in anthropology. In his sophomore year at university, he chosen as a scholar of the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies and was awarded the sum of 50,000 won ($50) per month. It was an experience through which he gained confidence and confidence to travel abroad and pursue the career of a scholar, something was something he believed would be a difficult task. The goal was to travel to America and be B.F. Skinner’s student after having read Walden II.

After graduating with a BA in psychology in 1985 Sang Min Whang continued his studies at East Graduate School under professor Bong Yeon Suh’s direction. In September of 1986, he won the scholarship of The Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies to pursue studies in Social Cognitive Development under Sheldon White’s supervision at the Harvard University psychology doctoral program.

The attempt to discipline Sang Min Whang in 2015 was not the first time. In 2014, he was sent to the disciplinary action committee for “lack of research production and negligence in teaching students,” but the charge fell apart after it was revealed not to be true. This is because in 2014 when Sang Min Whang was sent to the disciplinary action committee, he did five presentations in international and domestic academic societies and published one dissertation and the book The Person That Is Me. Also, he was on the editing staff for the Journal of Human Subjectivity and was editor-in-chief of the Korean Society for the Study of Human Subjectivity. In the following year of 2015, he published “The New Consumer Psychology: Scanning buying behavior with MRI of the Mind” through Routledge, America’s publishing company specializing in social sciences. In addition, when the genital scandal arose, Sung Joo Kim who was the co-chair of the Presidential Campaign Committee for Saenuri party, visited Yonsei University demanding Sang Min Whang’s resignation from professorship and revealed that she was promised disciplinary action by Yonsei University. It was brought up that Sung Joo Kim may be a member of the hidden power organization called “eight fairies” related to the Soon Sil Choi scandal, but she denied the allegation.

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After being terminated, professor Whang appeared on a TV program and claimed, “I became an object of hatred after defining Geun Hye Park as a ‘foolish ruler’ and even if there was pressure to terminate me from the Blue House because of this, the faculty council and university president should have stepped forward acting as a shield saying it [my comment] is within academic domain. This is evidence that universities have become trash…”

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Unlike Sang Min Whang’s intention to discuss “Korean universities’ utilizing students as a means for gaining publicity and the preferential treatment of elite sports athletes,” he became embroiled in the controversy of “fact checking Yuna Kim’s teaching practice.” A teacher from Yuna Kim’s teaching practice site, Seoul Jinseon Girls’ High School, refuted in an interview on “Mi-hwa Kim’s Everybody” to “please check the fact that [Yuna Kim] is coming to school and diligently coming to practice teaching” and on June 6 Yuna Kim’s management company, All That Sports, sued Sang Min Whang for slander saying “there are parts of what he said that are untrue that he spoke of as if it were true and because that damages the athlete’s honor we are taking legal measures.” However, they also left the possibility of dropping the lawsuit open by saying, “we can drop the suit at any time if professor Whang apologizes for the false information that was not checked.”