[2] He joined the faculty of the school of Mechanical System Engineering at the Chonnam National University in South Korea,[3] and presently serves as an executive board member at the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

He has twice received the Scientist of The Year Prize from the Korea Science Reporters Association, and is also the recipient of the IFR's Golden Robot Award, among many other honours.

[5] From 1987 till 2004 he was associated with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) and he had served as a director of 21C Frontier Project “ Intelligent Microsystem Program” for 5 years from 1999.

He was a professor of Chonnam National University[6](2005~2022) and a Director of Robot Research Initiative(RRI) in parallel.

Jong Oh Park made a great contribution to Robot industry through scientific outcome and technical transfer.