Department of Plant & Bio-materials Science
The Department pursues fostering creative future talents who will lead the future anti-aging industry by adding value and enhancing the technology to industrialize biomaterials through the development of functional materials and industrial new functions from medicinal, special purpose crops and plant materials. The Department of Herbal Medicine Resources, operated to foster experts in the areas of selling, distributing, studying and developing traditional medical plants, was upgraded to be the Department of Plant & Bio-materials Science as of 2021 to meet the creative and future-oriented industrial demands.
Currently, the graduates are active in the areas of bio health, food and pharmaceutical industries, herbal medicine, and life science.
Career path after graduation
Research officials under the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Rural Development Administration, Korea Forest Service, Agricultural Quality Management Institute, Agricultural Science and Technology Institute, and other related researchers.