Dr. Byoung-chul Min is one of Korea’s best-known intercultural educators in the English language educational field.

He has earned a doctorate in education with an emphasis on teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language from Northern Illinois University.

Dr. Min is the chairman of BCM Educational Group, currently an adjunct professor at Chung-ang University, and is a visiting scholar at New York University.

For many years, he had his own English instructional TV programs on the major Korean television networks.
Dr. Min has served as the Co-chair and Chair of several Korean TESOL Conferences, and has also conceived and developed the National Practical English Contest (NPEC), the first of its kind in Korea, which judges the spontaneous practical English conversation ability of Koreans.

Dr. Min's key publications include
BCM Practical English Series, which is the all-time best-selling English conversational book in Korea with over 1 million copies sold; Ugly Koreans, Ugly Americans

distributed in Korea
Ugly Japanese, Ugly Americans distributed in Japan; and Ugly Chinese, Ugly Americans distributed in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This series of “sometimes funny, always serious” books provide valuable insight into effective intercultural communication.