Jin-Sung Yang teaches Korean language and culture courses at the University of Central Florida. and worked with the University of Florida's Korean program for four years. Jin-Sung began her Korean teaching career at the US Embassy in Seoul. She taught there for six years.

Her research and teaching focus on: cultural awareness, application of current and new learning technologies, literacy in Korean media and popular culture, as well as improving the communication with ever-changing student cohorts.

She has sent many of her students to summer internships in Korea, student exchanges, and Scholarship programs including: Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) under the U.S. State Department and the Fulbright Program. She's involved herself in several projects hosted by the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs.

She holds degrees in foreign language education from State University of New York as well as Cross-Cultural & International Communication from Yonsei University in Seoul. A big fan of Martin Luther King, she enjoys applying his ideas to daily life. In her spare time, she travels, walks in nature, watches movies, and listens for the next K-Pop sensation.