On November 20, the first preparatory meeting for the 2009 Winter Overseas Volunteer Corps was held in Euiyang Hall at 4:30 p.m. This program is divided into three teams for Cambodia, the Philippines, and Laos. The Philippines team will leave Korea on December 28, followed by the Cambodia team on December 30 and the Laos team on January 12. Each team is to stay at its destination country for 12 nights.The meeting was composed of an introduction of the leaders of each team, the volunteer program, and the countries the volunteers are to go to. In the introduction of leaders, Kim Yong-il, the dea
The main character in Desert Flower is Waris Dirie, and ‘Waris’ means a desert flower. Such flowers can bloom even in the toughest of climates. Waris Dirie was also able grow strongly through her bravery. She published this book about her childhood and her present life. This book includes Waris Dirie’s life story and especially talks about a longstanding convention in Somalia in Africa - female circumcision. Have you ever heard about this? It is often called FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) and it still happens in twenty eight countries in Africa. According to an estimation done by the United N
Students participated in an English Cafe at the International Lounge Students connecting bones Who is the best mummy? Pumpkins for Halloween
Keimyung University is the only university in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk area selected for the 2009 Korean Government Scholarship Program for Graduate Students. This program helps foreign scholarship students to prepare to enter graduate schools and to learn Korean. The 2009 Korean Government Scholarship Program for Graduate Students was awarded to only ten universities in the whole nation. Keimyung University was entrusted with providing Korean education to thirty foreign students for one year starting from September 1. The scholarship students are to receive air fare, living expenses, medical insur
★ A Faculty systemA faculty system is the system of recruiting new students not through each department but through a faculty including various departments. Students can choose the department they want after studying various majors’ subjects.★ A Department systemA department system is the system of recruiting new students through each department. This system helps students to concentrate on their major from their first year.ProMany candidates for the university entrance examination complain that they are confused because of the transition period between returning to a department system and abo
The I-zoa team in the Department of Early Childhood Education won the first prize at the Chuncheon Puppet Festival 2009. The theme of the puppet play was about love for Dokdo. Thirty teams including university students and the general public participated in the contest. The judges felt that I-zoa's play Maegi Maegi Gold Island was excellent in its creative stories and in delivering good lessons. They were awarded a medal and one million won prize money. I-zoa made this play by themselves from the script, puppets, and props to the sound effects. This play calls attention to the historical worth
The Department of Theatre Arts of Keimyung University held a charity performance for people with special needs, and low-income families’ teenagers, on August 4 and 7. This department has often organized these kinds of performances for local residents and teenagers. They performed the Korean trot musical Blind Love for mentally disabled people in 2006 and also performed a fantasy musical for multicultural families in 2008.This performance was done under the name Over the Rainbow in the small theater in the performance hall at Seongseo Campus. Through this play, the department conveyed hopeful a
A book titled “The Two Faces of Humanity,” produced by public broadcaster EBS, was published recently. You may think the title of the book seems similar to the book called “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” because the title suggests two opposite sides of people. However, “The Two Faces of Humanity” shows how people change the way they behave according to the situations they face.What do you think controls human actions? Is it one’s own will or the circumstances we face? Researchers have participated in many debates and experiments about this question for a long time. The movie, “T
The 509th Philosophy Seminar was held in the multimedia room on the 3rd floor of the new Bauer Hall building on April 23. Rhyu Si-min, the former Minister of Health, Welfare, and Family Affairs, gave a lecture on the topic “Without Malthus, There Are No Conservatives.” 200 students and professors participated and paid careful attention to the former minister’s lecture. Keimyung’s philosophy seminars are open to the public and cover relatively easy themes, but deal with matters people need to think about deeply. The seminars usually take about two hours: one hour for the lecture and another hou
What word comes to your mind when you think of forsythia, azalea or rape flowers? Spring! Among these flowers, maehwa is the most famous for notifying the start of spring. Even though I was busy during the start of the new semester, I wanted to feel the mood when spring comes so I went to Maesil Farm, located in Gwangyang-si, Jeollanam-do.♣ Maesil FarmMaesil Farm is located beside Sumjin River. Approximately 100,000 trees are planted in the land space of 300,000 pyeong, and 400,000 people visit here every year. Maehwa flowers come into full bloom in March, making a beautiful scene for visitors
A special exhibition of Kim Jun-Keun's works People appreciating the works An example of Kim's work
On March 16, Norbert Baas, the ambassador of Germany in Korea, was appointed an honorary professor of Keimyung University. It is expected that the Ambassador will periodically deliver special lectures in Keimyung University over the next five years. Ambassador Bass graduated from the Technology University Berlin, and was granted a doctorate by the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1978. He was a representative at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 1982 to 1985 and later served in the German embassies in
On March 12, a seminar on green development was held at Hengso Museum in Keimyung University. Under the sponsorship of the Daegu Green Development Forum and the Daegu Regional Environmental Technology Development Center, many specialists in the green development field, public servants, Kim Bum-il, the mayor of Daegu, President Synn Il-hi and Keimyung students participated in the seminar. Lecturers discussed many policies such as the 'Green New Deal' and 'Low Carbon, Green Growth' in making a green city.
Congratulations!Lee Hye-jin (Sophomore, Department of Korean Studies)Kim Sung-mook (Sophomore, Department of Library and Information Science)Ye Byeong-un (Junior, Department of Energy and Environmental Science)
[ACROSS]1. Grand National Party3. The place in a studio where filming takes place4. Help and advice 7. A situation in which people accept something slightly different from what they really want 9. People who have the legal right to vote in elections [DOWN]2. An unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people or things 5. A big difference between two groups of people or things6. A particular subject that you discuss or write about 8. Political organization whose members have similar aims and beliefs 10. If you _____ something such as a tree, mountain, or ladder, you move toward the top of