On Feb. 28, 2018, the National Assembly passed a revision bill to the Labor Standards Act, which calls for reducing the legal working hours per week from the current 68 hours to 52 hours. The revision stated that "a week is seven days," reducing the maximum working hours by 16 hours from the current 68 hours to 52 hours. The current 68 hours per week is due to the Ministry of Employment and Labor's interpretation of the state's unit as only "five days a week," while Saturday and Sunday were excluded from the calculation of legal work hours, adding eight hours each to the holiday work. Pros S
The Creative School, run by Keimyung University's Industrial-Academic Human Resources Institute, taught 28 students from Gachang Middle School from January 22 to 26. The camp ran seven hours a day with the aim to have students perform in musicals. The creative school is a program aimed at developing and fostering creative skills with market-oriented education through the exploration of creative ideas and fostering the production capabilities of local youths. On the final day of the camp, students performed the musical "All Shook Up" and "Hairspray" for a general audience at a black box theate
Keimyung University is offering a free concert hall inside the main building on Daemyung campus from the end of August until the end of December this year for the development of local culture and arts and the expansion of local residents' living culture. The hall was prepared by Keimyung University's Industrial-Academic Human Resources and Daegu Foundation and it is expected help expand opportunities for entertainment of performance culture for local residents, as well as promote the Daemyung Performing Arts Street. An application to use the free grand hall, which has 200 seats, is available
In summer, many people want to take a rest in a beautiful place to enjoy their summer vacation. Also, there are many places to visit and many options like beaches, valleys and waterparks. Among of them, the beach is the most popular place. In Korea, there are many beaches in the Southern and Eastern Seas Pohang is one of the representative sea cities of Korea and it has many attractions to enjoy, so I will introduce Pohang. The first attractive point is that there are a variety of festivals which provide more fun for visitors in Pohang. It holds its signature summer festival, the Pohang Intern
Many university students are interested in finding a job. The KMU Job Center arranged a festival to try to encourage student that are applying for jobs. The festival title was the ‘2019 Youth Employment Policy Chicken and Beer Festival, and it was held in Daegu at the 2.28 Anniversary Central Park on June 28. About 1200 students participated, and there were 15 booths such as a policy booth, experience booths, and counselling booth. The counselling booth provided 1to1 job counseling help in devising a plan for careers, and provided employment information and promotion about the Youth Employment
On July 9th, the Korean Ministry of Education and the National Academy of Science, Republic of Korea announced that 286 books. Among the books chosen were six books written by KMU professors, Young-kook Kim, Hyun-joo Choi, Joo-hyun Cho, Mi-jung Choi, Young- chae Kim, Hye-kyung Kim Fourth Industrial Revolution and Global Fintech of Startup, Documentary and Reproducibility of Facts, Creativity, Principle of Punishment, Korean Traditional Poetry and the Border of the Joseon Dynasty and From Identity Politics to Agonism Politics. These outstanding academic books were selected to invigorate basic s
Since last July, you may have frequently seen #BOYCOTTJAPAN and #NOJAPAN on Korean social networks. The relationship between Korea and Japan has always been precarious because of their history. Koreans’ #BOYCOTTJAPAN started for almost the same reason, history. Last October, the Korean Supreme Court ordered a Japanese steel company who exploited Korean workers during the Japanese colonial period to pay each Korean victim of forced labor at that time a 100 million won in damages. The Japanese government lodged an appeal, but the Korean government ignored it. Last July, the Japanese Ministry of
Location: Changdeokgung, Jongno-gu, Seoul Date: 2019.8.22(Thu)-2019.10.27(Sun) Website: http://www.chf.or.kr/The Changdeokgung Moonlight Tour is Korea's leading ancient palace tour, and it marks its 10th anniversary this year. Changdeokgung Palace is one of the representative Joseon-era palaces where visitors can see beautiful sculptures in harmony with nature, and it was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997. The Changdeokgung Moonlight Tour program will offer guidance from professional commentators and will start from Donhwa Gate and then return to Donhwamun via Geumcheongyo B
A special exhibition celebrating the 120th anniversary of Keimyung University was held from May 20 until July 31at Hengso Museum. The title of the exhibition was ‘We Are the Champions’ and was held on the 1st floor. In addition to the exhibition, two artifacts from the museum's main collection were displayed in the second exhibition room. The theme of the exhibition is the stories of Gaya earthenware and the Gupdari jar. In line with this, a story of the animal found in the relics was also displayed. This exhibition displays various items from various periods, making it possible to understand
A book published by Keimyung University Press has been selected as the best academic book by The National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Korea (NAS) in 2019. The name of the book is "From Identity Politics to Agonism Politics". The author is professor Cho Joo-hyun in the Department of Women's Studies at the Graduate School of Policy. The subtitle of the book is 'Methodology of women's studies and practical turn of feminism politics’. This book contains contents that indicate that identity politics reveals its limitation and has extended to agonism politics. It is well-suited for people who a
On Sunday, June 30, South Korean President Moon Jae-in met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, alongside President Trump at the truce village of Panmunjom in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Through this meeting, President Donald Trump made history as the first sitting US leader to set foot in North Korea. On June 29, on the last day of the G20 Summit and on the Korea-U.S. summit, Trump tweeted about meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the DMZ. Soon after the Korea-U.S. summit, President. Moon officially declared the meeting at the truce village of Panmunjom. While inside North Kor
● Yohoshu-Ghish-ing, government scholarship student at Keimyung University Here is a Nepalese man who loves to learn Korean. He started to study Korean a few months ago. He is a government scholarship student at Keimyung University. I was curious to know more about him because he was a government scholarship student, so I interviewed him. When I interviewed him, I was surprised with his natural Korean and English speaking skills. Here is the interview. 1) Please introduce yourself. Hello, my name is Yohoshu-Ghishing. I come from Nepal. I started to study Korean last September. My major is Chi