Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul) announced on the 6th that Professor Han Dong-guk has been appointed as a policy advisor to the first-term Cyber Security Subcommittee of the National Security Office. This appointment ceremony followed the National Security Office's organization on February 11th of a 54-member policy advisory committee to propose policy directions for realizing ‘diplomacy and security centered on national interests.’ This committee includes advisory subcommittees to address not only traditional security domains but also newly emerging threats such as hacking and personal information leaks, which have arisen due to technological advancements.

The Policy Advisory Committee is organized into six subcommittees covering national defense, foreign affairs, unification, economic security, cyber security, and disaster management. It will provide opinions not only on policy but also on current issues. The National Security Office expressed its expectation that “the Advisory Committee will play a significant role in preparing countermeasures for various challenges arising from the rapidly changing international environment, including not only traditional security threats but also new security issues, economic security, and disaster management.”

At the appointment ceremony, National Security Office Director Wi Sung-lak emphasized, “National security transcends political factions; it is a matter of ‘national survival.’” He urged members, “Please do not hold back in offering candid opinions and creative suggestions regarding government policies.” Following the appointment ceremony for the first-term Policy Advisory Committee members, the Office also held its first plenary meeting to discuss opinions on major security issues.

The Policy Advisory Committee plans to continue advising on the National Security Office's policy formulation and major issues through plenary meetings, subcommittee meetings, and real-time social networking service (SNS) communication channels.

Professor Han Dong-guk, appointed as a first-term Cyber Security Policy Advisor, is Korea's foremost expert in decrypting cryptographic keys based on physical information within embedded hardware security devices like cryptographic equipment. Since joining Kookmin University in 2009, he has produced master's and doctoral graduates who have been placed in institutions requiring specialized information security tasks, such as the National Intelligence Service, the National Security Technology Institute, the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, the Counterintelligence Service, the 777th Command, and defense security companies. He recently won the Chungmugong Award (2nd place) in the 2025 Patent Technology Awards for a technology providing resistance to side-channel attacks on post-quantum cryptography (PQC), which is secure even against quantum computing attacks. He was also selected as the university research institute director for the ‘Glocal Lab Defense Technology Protection Research Institute,’ supported by the Ministry of Education, to secure global competitiveness in the weapons system security field for defense companies. as the director of the university research institute under the ‘Glocal Lab Defense Technology Protection Research Institute’. This initiative will receive 2.4 billion won annually for nine years, totaling 21.6 billion won in government funding, to secure global competitiveness in the security of weapon systems for defense and defense industry companies.