Did you listen to the blues songs that I introduced in the Art & Culture section of the 147th issue? I hope that those songs were able to kick your blues away. This time, I am introducing some Reggae music that can make you feel cool and comfortable. Reggae originated in Jamaica. It is not only a genre of music but also a kind of rhythm. Reggae started with ska and rocksteady and is influenced by other songs. The character of Reggae is off-beat, and it is played in four-four time. Reggae music is about love, peace, justice, human rights, equality, freedom and religion. This is because Reggae i
Hello, GazetteI think English is very difficult, so I thought an English newspaper would be very boring. However, one day I received the Keimyung Gazette from a friend. First, I thought this English newspaper was going to make me bored but soon I was attracted to this newspaper’s colorful photos, paintings and the quiz section. Due to lots of pretty pictures, it is easy to read. Most articles are easier to read than I thought. I think this is because student reporters write their articles themselves using easy vocabulary. The article Apart was especially interesting because I also have a part-
Each institution in Daegu is working hard to support the 2011 IAAF World Championships.As a designated hospital, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center created support groups for medical treatment and has held programs to educate them. The support groups, including Professor Lee Dong-pil (Director of the Local Organizing Committee’s Medical and anti-doping program), doctors, nurses and physical therapists, are responsible for the health of 2000 players, 1500 staff and 2500 reporters involved in the event.Cha Soon-do, Director of Dongsan Medical Center, said “the World Championship in Athle
Keimyung University got many prizes including the first prize in female board breaking in the 2011 World Taekwondo Hanmadang. This competition was held from August 10 to 13 at Namyangju Sports Culture Center in Gyeonggi-do. 3700 people from 53 countries participated in the competition and competed in 11 events.Four students in the Department of Taekwondo got prizes in the competition. In taekwondo aerobics, students won the second prize.Kim Hyun-yee, who won the first prize in female board breaking, said, “Since my specialty is poomsae, I just participated in this competition without any expec
Keimyung University will launch a Super-Mentor Program that will run from August to December 2011. This program was devised to support students and create an atmosphere of effective foundation building. The mentees will be paired with an expert who works in a relevant field to develop a mentoring relationship over a period of time. They will be given one-on-one tutoring so they can learn the foundation of their field, such as the steps between drawing up a business plan and making a final product. This program will be conducted this semester among thirty identified clubs. Thirty corps of mento
The Leaders team, Department of Media and Information, won the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family prize of 1,500,000 won in the Korea Youth UCC (User Created Contents) Camp which was held for the Daegu World Athletics Championships. This event included programs such as making Daegu maps, a green tour, and a youth club festival. Young people from all over the country made images of Daegu heritage sites and tourist spots in Daegu. Eighty-five teams participated in this competition. In the UCC video Leaders made, the main character gives an application “Hello Daegu” to tourists visiting Daegu
Keimyung University Undergraduate Choi Young-yoon Interns at the UN From March to July 2011, Choi Young-yoon, an undergraduate student at Keimyung University interned at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Choi Young-yoon is 23 years old, and in the Keimyung Adams College (KAC) department of International Relations. She said that “the UN followed the custom that required interns to be graduate students who had studied a related major. Actually I did not have such qualifications. So I had good luck and was offered a big opportunity to work at the UN as an undergraduate.”
Professor Kim Han Soo, of the Department of Urban Planning at Keimyung University was selected as the new chairman of the Korean Territory City Planning Society in Daegu and North Gyeonsang province at the regular meeting held at Keimyung University on August 15, 2011. The Korean Territory City Planning Society, which was founded in 1959 to contribute to research and development in designing cities and local regions, has contributed much in many ways by constructing many roads, highways, buildings and parks, and has developed new strategies and theories in designing cities and local regions. T
Synn Il-hi, President of Keimyung University, received the Grand Cross from Germany for improving relations between Korea and Germany. Hans-Ulrich Seidt, the Germany Ambassador to Korea, gave the medal to President Synn in Sung-seo campus on August 21.Ambassador Seidt said, “President Synn has promoted cultural exchange between Korea and Germany and improved international relations as chairman of the German exchange cooperation team. He became president of Keimyung University in 1978 and established the Department of German Language and Literature in 1982. In 1985, he was appointed president o
On July 17 to 22, there was a contest for selecting national taekwondo competitors for the Summer Universiad which will be held in Chungcheongnam-do in Cheongyang-gun. Through this contest, student Jang Min-ho, majoring in the Department of Taekwondo at Keimyung University, was chosen, winning the first prize in the man's 63kg class. The contest was supported by Korea University Taekwondo Federation.The purpose of the contest was to select national taekwondo competitors for the Summer Universiad that will be held from August 12 in Shenzhen, China. Lots of teams form all over the world particip
Two actors walking on the red carpet People awaiting celebrities Daegu Mayor, Kim Bum-il, introducing himself An actor and actress introducing their work
The Department of Industrial Design produced finalists in the International Design Excellence Awards 2011 (IDEA), which is sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Choi Jee-min, Lee Han-sub, Jin Jun-ho, Choi Jung-ju, Park Mi-rim, and Kim Mee-yeon represented Keimyung.In IDEA, the judging standards are how innovative the design is, how useful it is to society and the environment, and appearance. These standards are hard to meet. Lee Han-sub said that he was motivated by a TV documentary. In that documentary, a blind man bought chocolate milk although he wanted to buy whi
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