 She met her Iranian husband while he was studying at the Seoul Agricultural College (now part of the University of Seoul) as an international student; in 1977, she followed him back to Iran.She was elected to her post in 1997. , the association had roughly 300 members.Iran's sole school for South Korean nationals, the Tehran Korean School (; also known as the Korean Embassy School), was established on 30 April 1976; it uses Korean as the primary medium of instruction, with English used for science and computer classes, and Persian offered as a foreign language.