of the Korea Chemical Research Institute. In 1976, he completed a CEO course at Seoul National University business school. In March of 1981, he resigned from his position as President of Korea Chemicals. In March 1980, after resigning from the presidency of Korea Chemical Industries he was appointed as an adviser to Fujitsu Korea. Later he was appointed the chairman of the Korea Chemical Research Institute, director of the Korea Chemical Research Institute, and National Chairperson of the International Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was appointed to the permanent Advisory Office of the National Unification Agency in 1986, which included conducting security and lecture activities. 1998 to 2020 In 1998, he was appointed chairman of the Commemorative Projects Committee on the 50th anniversary of the Korean War. From 1999 to 2001 he was selected to be the Advisory Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the No Gun Ri Incident Countermeasures Group. In 2013, the U.S. military in Korea appointed him as an "Honorary U.S. 8th Army Commander" and as whom he would represent the U.S. 8th Army in Korea during various official events. In South Korea, President Lee Myung-Bak attempted to promote Paik Sun-yup to the position of the First Head of the ROK Armed Forces, but this was ultimately denied. Then in 2008, in the Pro-Japanese Personalities and People's Exhibition -published by the Institute for National Affairs- included Paik in the military section of prospective chinilpa candidates, due to his prior service in the Manchukuo Imperial Army. Furthermore in 2009, the Rho Moo-hyun administration’s National Behavior Commission included Paik sun-yup in the highly controversial list of 705 chinilpas. In May 2008, he was appointed as an adviser to the "Committee to Promote the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the Republic of Korea." On March 23, 2009, it was reported that the South Korean government planned to honor Paik as an honorary field-marshal in honor of the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. If implemented, Paik would have become South Korea's first Field-marshal, this however would not come to fruition. On January 30, 2019, a group in consisting of retired South Korean generals of which Paik served as an advisor, released a statement criticizing the administration of South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the Comprehensive Military Agreement which was co-signed with North Korea at the September 2018 inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang. He died on July