Park Yong-ha PhD

Professor Park is an acclaimed authority on lactobacillus research for over 30 years, and reported ‘Lactobacillus kimchii’ for the first time in the world to the international academic circles to establish the position of Korea as the home of kimchi. He also teamed up with Professor Han Yoon-soo (Pediatrics) at Chungbuk National University and Probiotics (CEO Lee Hyun-joo) in an industry-academic cooperate research team to study the atopy immuno-disease treatment effects of kimchi microorganisms, and discovered the kimchi lactobacillus, ‘Lactobacillus Sakei Probio 65’ for the first time in the world. Upon applying on atopy diseases, it was found to effectively reduce cytokine that worsens immuno-diseases and improve it by over 238%, while publishing the mechanism through scientific clinical trials in an acclaimed international academic journal in 2010.
He also published multiple research results stating that kimchi lactobacillus had excellent preventive and treatment effects of PED corona virus that causes epidemic diarrhea in hogs. Professor Park completed registration of international patents for such kimchi lactobacillus and received approval by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in 2013 as an individually recognized health functional food ingredient for the Lactobacillus Sakei Probio 65.