On March 10, 2017, President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment was approved by the Constitutional Court. Right after that, South Koreans had to prepare for the next presidential election to choose the next leader of the country. Presidential candidates only had 60 days to campaign for the election. This year early voting was on May 4-5, and the main election day was on May 9. Due to the impeachment, this year’s Election Day was moved from December to May. This phenomenon caused many 20 year old people Korean age to feel discriminated against by their lack of chance to vote, because in South Korea pe
On March 20 to 24, Keimyung University’s Student Council and the College of Physical Education held a campaign for fire fighter Choi Gil-su at Bauer Hall and the Dongsan Library. He graduated from Keimyung in 2005, and became a fire fighter in January 2017. After he saved two kids and their parents from a fire, he had to jump from the 3rd floor to escape. Unfortunately, he broke his spine in the fall. In honor of his sacrifice, students decided to raise money to help pay for his treatment. They hope their contribution will help him get over his injury and show their respect for his heroic effo
On March of 2017, the Keimyung University College of ARTech, Department of Video and Animation student art work began to be displayed on the Kim Gwang-seok Road’s Webtoon Corner. This work is in cooperation with the Daegu Jung-gu Ofice.The art work is the result of content production cooperation between both the Department of Video and Animation and Jung-gu Office to activate citizen participation. The art works will be displayed from March to December.You can enjoy 5 webcomics which are based on some famous songs by Kim Gwang-seok: Private’s Letter, Around Thirty, Stand up, The Place Where th
●Director: Andrew Lloyd Webber●Genre: Musical●Starring: James Barbour, Ali Ewoldt, Kyle Barisich●Running time: 150 minutes with one 15minutes intermission.The musical the Phantom of the Opera is based on the French detective novel writer Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera. The musical was written by British composer Andrew L. Webber. It was first performed in 1986, in the London Majestic Theatre and translated in to more than15 languages, and performed in over 145 cities in 27 countries. This musical broke the musical Cats’s record, with more than 7486 performances, and became the
On February 13, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) supreme leader Kim Jong-un’s half-brother Kim Jong-nam was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia by two female DPRK agents. This seems to be an action to eliminate a threat to Kim Jong-un’s power. The autopsy on Kim Jong-nam showed VX nerve agent in his body. The discovery of VX nerve agent was unsettling for everyone around the world.Kim Jong-nam is Kim Jong-un’s elder half-brother and had a DPRK’s supreme leader lecture when he was young. However, through his experiences studying abroad, he felt t
On February 14, Keimyung University announced that the of College of Pharmacy graduates passed the 68th National Pharmacist Test this year. This the third year in a row that all of the recently graduated students passed this test.Since the College of Pharmacy opened in 2011, all of its graduates have passed the national test. There were 27 in 2015 (the first graduating class), 37 in 2016, and 34 this year which is a 100% success rate. KMU’s College of Pharmacy keeps a national test study room and a debate room open until midnight to help students study. Son Dong-hwan, the College of Pharmacy d
On Dec. 27, 2016, Keimyung University and the Korea Environment Corporation (KECO) signed an agreement to training environmental specialists at the Sungseo campus main building. Participating in the ceremony were, Shin Jin-gi, the administration vice president, and Lim Byeong-mu, KECO Daegu-Kyongbuk local center director, as well as 10 other officials.Both institutes agreed to support education for training local talent, exchange knowledge, technologies, and professionals. Also, they decided to share education and research facilities, and to develop an industrial university institute cooperati
On Jan. 10, U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert visited Keimyung University’s Taekwondo Center. Ambassador Lippert has a huge interest in Taekwondo, so he visited KMU Taekwondo Center and watched a taekwondo performance. KMU’s Taekwondo Performance Team has won many awards for taekwondo techniques and gymnasticsAmbassador Lippert said, “Every country has their own distinct martial art. Korea’s taekwondo is attractive enough to be an Olympic event. Rather than focusing on attacking, developing spirit and skills to defend oneself are the attractive element of Taekwondo.”
On January 27, U.S. President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order limiting immigration. The executive order says that citizens from seven Islamic countries (Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya) are temporarily banned from receiving a visa or entering the U.S. Also, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has been suspended for 120 days. On January 28, after the order went into effect, people from the seven affected countries were detained in airports after they landed in the U.S., and then the protests began at airports. Worse still, some people were deported back to their countr
Since November 2016, a catastrophic avian influenza (AI) has plagued South Korea. Due to the AI, many chickens had to be destroyed causing the price of chicken and eggs to soar. When communicable diseases like AI occur, it is very important for the government and related agencies to react as quickly as they can. When this outbreak of AI started, however, the Korean government showed their inability to respond to it. Of course, when it began, most of the government was paralyzed because of Choi Soon-sil and Park Geun-hye scandal, but it shouldn’t have been. The relevant agency failed to stop th
On November 15, the 115th Keimyung Women’s Studies Seminar was held in the International Seminar Room in the College of Business. The topic for the seminar was “New Welfare Paradigm for Women’s Equal Labor Rights.” The main speaker was Professor Lee Joo-hee from Department of Sociology in Ehwa Womans University. The event was hosted by KMU’s Graduate School of Policy Studies, the Daegu Women and Family Foundation, and the Women’s Studies Center. Professor Lee Joo-hee pointed out that we highly appreciate a wife and a mother’s labor in the family; however, companies don’t fully value their work
On October 6, 2016, the 3rd Keimyung Goethe Golden Bell Competition was held at the College of Business Administration. This event was hosted by the KMU Goethe Institute and was supervised by the Department of German Language and Literature. The competitors gathered from a diversity of universities throughout Korea. The Golden Bell Competition consists of 3 rounds. Each round has 25, 15, and 10 questions with general information about Germany. In the third round, competitors add all of their scores. The one who scores the most is the winner. Questions are written in German, and only a few ques
On September 28, the Anti-bribery and Graft Act, known as Kim Young-ran Act, went into effect in South Korea. This act became a hot topic all over the country because people are confused about what they can and can’t do for employees of public institutions. In the 180th issue, we are going to find out what kind of actions or activities are regulated by the Kim Young-ran Act and what should readers do to avoid breaking the law.First of all, the Kim Young-ran Act is an act that primarily applies to the people who work in areas like public administration, media or schools who can use their power
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On October 6, 2016, the 3rd Keimyung Goethe Golden Bell Competition was held at the College of Business Administration. This event was hosted by the KMU Goethe Institute and was supervised by the Department of German Language and Literature. The competitors gathered from a diversity of universities throughout South Korea. The Golden Bell Competition consists of 3 rounds. Each round has 25, 15, and 10 questions with general information about Germany including art, history, sports, and culture. During the first and second round, competitors who get the wrong answer to a question are out. In the