[World Class] From exchange student to dean, John Frankl embodies the next stage of Yonsei’s internationalization

Behind each university’s global ambitions are choices about what to preserve, what to develop and where to go next. In “World Class,” The Korea Herald interviews leaders of Korean universities about the strengths they are cultivating and the futures they envision. — Ed. When John Frankl first arrived at Yonsei University as an American exchange student in the late 1980s, he found a far more insular institution than the globally oriented university he knows today. Nearly four decades later, the f