USC President Beong-Soo Kim and Walter Cho, chairman and CEO of Korean Air and Hanjin Group, celebrate the naming of the Korean Air Convergence Plaza on USC’s University Park Campus in Los Angeles. (USC Photo/ Alyse Young)
USC dedicates new Korean Air Convergence Plaza
The vibrant hub for interdisciplinary collaboration and community connection is named in honor of the global airline chaired by USC alumnus Walter Cho.
USC students, faculty, researchers, alumni and visitors have a new campus hub for collaboration and community. On Tuesday, USC leaders and special guests gathered to celebrate the dedication of the new Korean Air Convergence Plaza on the University Park Campus.
“USC has always been a place where people with different ideas, backgrounds and perspectives come together in the quest for excellence,” USC President Beong-Soo Kim said. “Thanks to Korean Air and Walter Cho, students and faculty from across a range of disciplines will have a beautiful shared space to converge, connect and create.”
Kim, Chairman and CEO of Korean Air and Hanjin Group Walter Cho, and USC Trustee Ronald D. Sugar dedicated the newly named plaza in the heart of USC’s engineering corridor.
The Korean Air Convergence Plaza will welcome generations of students, faculty, researchers and alumni — as well as the thousands of visitors who will visit the University Park Campus during the upcoming LA28 Olympic Games.
Students, faculty, researchers, alumni and visitors will have an inviting outdoor space for interdisciplinary collaboration and everyday community interactions. By bringing together people from a variety of experiences and expertise, the Korean Air Convergence Plaza will encourage connection, foster creativity and inspire new ideas in an echo of Korean Air’s purpose of connecting for a better world.
The plaza sits at the center of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence and three of the university’s academic buildings: the Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg Human-Centered Computation Hall, the Ray R. Irani Hall and the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.
“Los Angeles has been our gateway to the Americas for over five decades, and we remain deeply committed to collaborating with USC, a premier academic institution,” said Cho, who earned his MBA from USC in 2006. “We hope this plaza serves as a collaborative space where brilliant minds gather to drive innovation and create meaningful change.”
