Professors and students of Keimyung University won a lot of prizes in 2006. Last year, 420 Keimyung people won prizes, and this year 581 Keimyung people won prizes in various kinds of contests. The amount of winners this year increased from last year. This contributed to improving Keimyung University's reputation. The College of Physical Education and the College of Fine Arts usually perform well and this year they also recorded good results. The Department of Taekwondo and the Faculty of Archery especially performed well in international contests. In addition to this, many students who partic
The 44th General Student Council (GSC) election and the 23rd General Women's Council (GWC) election were held on November 23. Hwang Suk-hoon, a senior from the Department of Statistics, was elected GSC president. Yeo Sang-sub, a sophomore from the Department of Electronics Engineering, was elected GSC vice-president. Jung Hye-won, a senior from the Department of Food Science and Technology, was elected GWC president. The vote counting was conducted by 21 Central Election Management Committee members, 10 GSC candidate observers, 10 GWC candidate observers, 2 reporters from the University Press,
The Department of Japanese Language and Literature won first prize at the Sixth Japanese Drama Festival on October 21. Students performed selected scenes from the Korean play, Onggojibjeon in Japanese. The students' high level of Japanese and good acting ability contributed to them winning first prize. This play is going to be performed again on November 10 on the fourth floor of Student Hall 1. Translated by Jin Hyun-juKMG Junior Reportersweetcandy@kmu.ac.kr
Recently, people have become more interested in health. Accordingly, more people are using Keimyung's athletic facilities. Keimyung University students and local residents often exercise on the large field, small field, and tennis courts. As the use of facilities has increased, so to have user complaints regarding the facilities. The large field doesn't have night lights, so users have complained about that. In relation to this, the maintenance team delayed installing night lights owing to an increased work load due to damage to the lawn, shower instruments, and glass windows. The maintenance
The Keimyung University Center for Traditional Microorganism Resources (TMR) was selected to analyse Korea's drinking water on September 14. It was selected as food sanitation inspection organization in 2002 and the stock farm products sanitation inspection organization in 2004. This is the third time, the TMR center was selected by the government as an officially certified testing organization.Translated by Son Yeong-imKMG Junior Reportersyl1310@kmu.ac.kr
Illegal parking caused by the lack of parking spaces in Keimyung University is a serious problem. More spaces are especially needed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays because there are many lectures on those days, and there are not enough parking spaces for the afternoon lectures. Therefore, students who don't park on campus have to park on the roadside. This leads to traffic jams. Jung Jun-ho, the Maintenance Team 1 officer, said, “The South Gate parking lot is big enough and there are spaces for 320 cars.” He recommends using the South Gate parking lot instead of the East Gate parking lot,
A rumor that a suspicious man haunts our campus has been spreading recently. A flasher was recorded to have appeared in the fifth and the sixth exits of Keimyung University Subway Station and 6 sexual assaults were reported over 4 months in Shindang-dong. However, due to police patrols over that time, there haven't been any assaults reported in the studio-apartment complex around the campus. On September 7 in Leegok-dong, a sexual assault occurred and the offender was arrested. Accordingly, we need to improve the present condition of public security and crime prevention in and around Keimyung
Keimyung University has changed some scholarship regulations to become more competitive and to provide more variety in the scholarships offered. Scholarships for the disabled and scholarships for disabled helpers were launched. Scholarships for the disabled are limited to people with grade one to three disabilities, and scholarships for disabled helpers require recommendations from the disabled and the chief of Student Affairs. Scholarship students who concede their scholarship money to students with financial needs have in the past received special benefits like job recommendations and partic