Soh Yeong Roh | |
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Roh in 2016
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Born |
Daegu, South Korea |
March 31, 1961
Residence | Seoul, South Korea |
Alma mater | College of William & Mary, Chicago University |
Occupation | Director of Art Center Nabi |
Years active | 2000–present |
Spouse(s) | Chey Tae-won (m. 1988) |
Children | 3 (Yoon Chung, Min Jung, In Keun) |
Parent(s) | Roh Tae-woo, Kim Ok-suk |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 노소영 |
Revised Romanization | No Soyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | No Soyŏng |
Soh Yeong Roh is a South Korean art museum director. She is the founder and director of Art Center Nabi.
Soh Yeong Roh was born in Daegu, South Korea, on March 31, 1961. Her father, Roh Tae-woo is a former South Korean politician and ROK Army general who served as the 6th President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. She has a younger brother, JaeHun Ro who is an U.S. attorney at law.
In 1988, married the chairman of the South Korean group SK Corporation, Chey Tae-won, and has two daughters and a son.
She attended Sudo Girl's High School in Seoul, South Korea and attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia, United States as an undergraduate and did graduate work in economics at the University of Chicago, United States. Then, she gained her master's degree in education from Stanford University in California, United States and did graduate study in Media Communication at Yonsei University in Seoul.
In 2000 Roh founded Art Center Nabi. It has a predecessor of Walkerhill art museum which was a private contemporary art museum in Seoul. She transformed the art museum into a new media art museum.