The foot is a more important organ than people may think. The feet hold most of the body’s weight even though these occupy a small part of the body. Feet are supposed to be protected by shoes, but sometimes shoes have a bad impact on the feet. One common example is wearing tight, high-heeled shoes or flat shoes. Through this, feet are damaged and hurt. A pedorthist cures and prevents foot damage. Role A pedorthist recommends and makes fitted shoes, liners, and devices to relieve pain and improve problems for patients who suffer from congenital deformity, walking defects caused by accidents and
Many students want to study a foreign language, get certificates, and do international activities like international student exchange programs and working holidays to get experiences and achieve their goals, aiming to get a job. Among many international activities, I recommend WWOOF, which isn’t famous in Korea yet. WWOOF is a program that helps volunteers on organic farms or smallholdings to learn about organic growing and a healthier lifestyle, and provides volunteers with many opportunities to make a good relationship with people from around the world and to experience local culture. The Ga
1. Jeonju Hanok VillageJeonju Hanok Village is located in the center of Jeonju and is the largest Hanok village in Korea. In this village there are 700 Hanok, traditional Korean houses, and travelers can experience various aspects of traditional culture such as handicrafts. Hanok Village is the landmark of Jeonju, which is known as the most Korean city. 2. GyunggijeonGyunggijeon is a palace built at a blessed site. Gyunggijeon was built to enshrine the portrait of King Taejo Lee Sung-gye who founded the Joseon Dynasty. Tourists can easily find Gyunggijeon because it is located near Jeonju Hano
Tuck & Company, Inc. which runs a used mobile items marketplace concluded an agreement with Keimyung University on January 10. On January 19, the company released the “Hello Market Green Campus” application.This application allows students to quickly register items to sell through a smart phone’s camera. Also, this application offers location-based services (LBS) to show a seller’s location in the school, so this application connects sellers with consumers more easily. Students can search for items in real time that they want to buy. And, this application has a function that when the items tha
On February 15, KMU students were awarded the grand prize in the Spark Design Awards held in San Francisco. They are four students from the Department of Industrial Design: Hyuntae Kim, Hyuntae Roh, Seungmin Bak, and Khanyoung Kong. The Spark Design Awards are an international design award. The awards have six sections: Apps, Concept, Communication, Mobility, Product, and Space.The students submitted a Multi Wrench, a wrench that can be used with 5 different bolt measures, to the awards. With this wrench, people can use 5 different bolts with one wrench. Their entry won the grand prize in the
Park Sang-won, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science in Keimyung University, was honored by the Ministry of Environment at the opening ceremony for the recyclable resources market at the Korea Environment Corporation in Incheon.Prof. Park has worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Environment and contributed greatly to opening the recyclable resources market. A recyclable resources market is an online market to enable people to trade secondhand goods. He got credit for opening the recyclable resources market from the Ministry.A recyclable resources market is a good example
On January 21th, an honorary doctorate conferment ceremony was held in Adams Chapel. Ukifune Kunihiko, the GK academy president, got an honorary doctorate of education, and Moshe Sharon, the chief of Daegu-Tech, got an honorary doctorate of business administration. About 1,000 distinguished guests, including the Israeli ambassador Tuvia Israeli who gave the congratulatory message, participated in this ceremony. The event included the achievement introduction, honorary doctorate certificate presentation and speech by Synn Il-hi, valedictory speech, congratulatory speech, and pipe organ performa
Keimyung University recently had a program for children and the elderly called “Mentoring Service Program for Children”. About 80 children from Namgu, Dalseogu, and Dalseounggun's multicultural and low-income families visited 28 elderly people who live alone. The children delivered letters and handmade presents and performed various activities for them. This event, which was designed for children to learn the value of sharing and helping others, ended January 11.Park Ji-won who is a 6th grader at Bongduck Elementary School said, “I visited an elderly person’s house on the advice of my teacher.
The Foundation Support Group of Keimyung University, which was selected as the Leading Foundation University by Small and Medium Business Administration, held a special lecture, Establishment on eBay, for people who are interested in buying and selling things on eBay on January 11 at the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation building on Sungseo campus. This site is the world number one electronic commerce site.Kim Young-mun of the Foundation Support Group lectured about basic preparations for establishing an account, essential knowledge for sellers, on-the-job training in registering produc
The Realbird team won the first prize in the UCC contest hosted by Nutrilite. This contest is a part of a campaign called “Health Is a Genuine Spec.” It was held to give students an opportunity to have novel ideas and give awareness about health to many university students who are indifferent to their health.The contest had two categories for university students and graduate students. Many students participated in this contest and it was really competitive. The Realbird team participated in the UCC category. They won the first prize and got a three million won scholarship. Ahn Gwang-ho, the te
Shining star ornaments and moving lights hanging on a tree Many colorful light bulbs on the bushes Christmas tree decoration on Adams Chapel
Keimyung University President Synn Il-hi was appointed as an honorary consul general of Korea in Poland from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Polish government on December 20th, 2012.President Synn has been Poland’s honorary consul since October 2005. His new position’s term is 5 years.President Synn has a deep relationship with Poland. He established the Korea-Poland Association in 1995 and served as the first president until 2006. He also established a dual-degree program with Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and opened the Keimyung F. Chopin Academy of Music in 1998.Also