Korean Register’s CEO dies

· Monday, October 10, 2016

The Korean Register’s 63-year-old chairman and chief executive officer, B.S. Park, died Monday following a brief illness.

The Korean Register’s chairman and chief executive officer, B.S. Park, died Monday following a brief illness. He was 63.
Park was named the classification society’s top executive in December 2014.
Prior to this appointment, he was chief operating officer of the Korea P&I Club from 2006 to 2014, and before that was CEO of the Welson Korea Insurance Brokers from 2001 to 2006. He started his career in the mid-1970s with Pan Ocean Shipping.
Park is survived by his wife and two grown children.

Chris Gillis

Located in the Washington, D.C. area, Chris Gillis primarily reports on regulatory and legislative topics that impact cross-border trade. He joined American Shipper in 1994, shortly after graduating from Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md., with a degree in international business and economics.