About IIK

IIK is one of the largest and oldest Indian Community Group in Korea. Since its establishment on Mar 25, 2002. It has been a platform for sharing happiness and sadness and a source of information for all Indians living in Korea and Indians coming to Korea.

There are more than 10,000 members closely associated in the Republic of Korea via this group (Facebook : ), IIK also provides live discussion forums through IIK Telegram (), making it an ideal medium for sharing and expressing views and information pertinent to the Indian community.

Board of Directors (BoDs)

Team IIK

Name: Prof. Nagendra Kaushik
IIK position: President
Profession in Korea: Professor, Kwangwoon University

Name: Ms. Beena Nair
IIk position: Vice President
Profession in Korea: Program Management at Green Climate Fund

Name: Nahakpam Bidhanchandra
IIK position: Director of Finance
Profession in Korea: Assistant Professor, Department of Distribution Management, Tongmyong University, South Korea

Name: Dr. Vivek Dhimole
Ilk position: Director of Students Affairs
Profession in Korea: Research Professor, Inha University

Name: Mr. Partha De
Ilk position: Immediate Past President
Profession in Korea: Sr. Principal Engineer at Hancom Forensics

Name: Prof. Maidul Islam
IlK position: Vice-President
Profession in Korea: Assistant Professor at Keimyung University

Name: Mr. Sanjay Yadav
Ilk position: Chairman, Director of Legal Affairs
Profession in Korea: President of Iskcon Korea
Owner of Krishna Food Mart
Owner of Sky Trading Pvt Ltd.

Name: Dr. Nitish Katoch
IIK position: Director of Finance, Social Media
Profession in Korea: Research Professor at Kyung Hee University, Seoul

Name: Dr. Sib Shankar Giri
IlK position: Director of Student Affairs
Profession in Korea: Research Professor at Seoul National University

IIK Advisors

Name: Mr. Navneet Basutkar
IIK position: Advisor
Profession in Korea: Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics

Name: Prof. Benjamin Cho
IlK position: Advisor
Profession in Korea: Professor at Kwangwoon University

Core Members

  • Mr. Amit Bhat
  • Mr. Majunath Bhide
  • Mr. Syed Sanu
  • Mr. Ashutosh Singh
  • Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Mishra
  • Mr. Agrim Bhalla
  • Dr. Haribalan Perumalsamy

IIK’s Vision

  1. Help Indians to make life easy in Korea by providing useful information at one place.
  2. Strive to create a positive image for India through transformational thinking and creative contribution.
  3. Recognize achievements of India & Indian community and their impact on Korean society and economy.
  4. Provide an outlet for spreading group & personal creative expressions and experiences.
  5. Promote ideas to create a sense of mutual openness and trust between Koreans and Indians.
  6. Create a platform for NRIs awareness by sharing how NRIs in other country are organizing ideas to help transform India. Motivating NRI to invest emotionally in India.
  7. Raise common and reoccurring social, professional, and other related problems and issues of IIK members and help to solve them by making one voice as community.
  8. To provide a transformational platform to members.