Sanghwa Chung was born in Seoul, Korea, on July 17, 1974. He received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering from Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea, in 2001.
In 2001, he joined Hynix Semiconductor, Icheon, Korea. Since then, he has been involved in development and research of various nonvolatile memory circuits such as NOR flash, SLC NAND flash and MLC NAND flash memories.