Yoonhyung Jeon is the Head of Public Affairs at the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) and a member of the Panel of Experts for the UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD), representing the Asia-Pacific region.

For more than twenty years in the film industry, she has played a pivotal role in shaping audio-visual governance and strategic industry financing. At KOFIC, she directed national Equity Funds for Filmmaking, channeling strategic public investment into low- and medium-budget productions to safeguard cultural diversity and cultivate emerging creative talent.

Jeon has served as a global expert under the EU/UNESCO Expert Facility on the Governance of Culture since 2019, delivering technical policy advisory in Vietnam, Mongolia and Uganda, Ethiopia to strengthen local regulatory frameworks and foster South-South co-operation within the audio-visual sector. She was also a featured speaker on digital environments at the IFACCA World Summit 2025 and led a major policy research project examining South Korean cultural policy in collaboration with Co-creation Hub Africa.

Complementing her executive and advisory commitments, she has lectured at Kyung Hee University and Dong-Eui University, teaching digital media literacy, screen policy, and audio-visual storytelling.