Juhyeon Park

Juhyeon Park teaches and researches library and information science at Chonnam National University. Before joining the faculty in 2022, Park spent fifteen years (2007–2022) as a teacher librarian at four public elementary schools in Gwangju, and most of Park's research questions began there.

The work starts from reading attitude rather than reading ability: why some children come to love books and others do not. That question led to a model of reading attitude and a reading-attitude scale for children. As reading moved from paper to screens, the work widened to media and information literacy (MIL): adapting UNESCO's MIL framework to Korean classrooms, designing curricula, and building models for collaborative teaching between teacher librarians and subject teachers. More recent projects ask how public libraries can foster civic literacy, and examine the policies, staffing, and laws that shape school libraries.

Park received a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Chonnam National University (2016) and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Missouri (2017–2018). Park directs the university's Glocal Knowledge Resources Institute, heads education and research at the Jeonnam-Gwangju Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, advises master's and doctoral students in both the Library and Information Science and the Archival Science programs, serves on the School Library Promotion Committee of the Ministry of Education, and formerly chaired the School Library Committee of the Korean Library Association.