A Keimyung University student team held a gakseoli performance titled Beggar’s Love at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a world famous festival, last summer. Gakseoli is an old Korean beggar song and dance for food. The performance of the ten members was the first case of a Korean university student team joining the festival. The BBC showed their performance, and they were invited to perform at the opening of a theater festival in Spain in May. The Gazette met the director, Go Soon-chul, who majors in advertising and public relations at Keimyung University. 1. Would you introduce Beggar’s Love?I
Kim Jeon-han graduated from the Department of Philosophy in Keimyung University in 1990. He won a prize from the Korean Film Council in 1991 and won a prize in the poetry section of the Spring Literary Contest hosted by the Mun-Hwa Daily News in 1993. He has published Bong-ja and Therefore, She Married Fake Bea Chul-soo. He is the screenplay writer of the movies Bong-ja, Green chair, and Driving with My Wife's Lover. He also has played roles in movies and has written film scripts. Let's meet him.Q. You are an actor, writer, playwright, and movie director. Which one is your real job?I just want
The Gazette recently met KMU foreign student, Dimi-SH. His father is Italian and his mother is Iranian. He can speak five languages: English, Iranian, Italian, Turkish, and Korean. He graduated from KMU with a Bachelor of ETrade in 2006 and then entered the Department of Electronics Engineering to study more. He is a junior now. He is also a Live TBC Today TV reporter. Let's meet him.1. What do you think about Korea? I think Korea is a very secure country. When I first came here, I stayed at a hotel in Seoul. At midnight, I went outside to buy beers and I saw some juveniles walking around the
What is destiny? Do you believe in destiny? Someday, when you really experience something that is destined you will believe in it. This moment I deem that the Global Master of Business Administration (GMBA) is my destiny. Why? Actually, before I came to Keimyung University to start the GMBA program, I had the chance to go to top universities for postgraduate study without examination in China, but for some reason, God closed that door and opened another window which led me to meet Professor Kim who introduced the GMBA program to me. To tell you the truth, at the very beginning, I was attracted
Q. Please tell me your business and office hours?My office hours are from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. I control the traffic until 9:30 a.m. When I don't have any other special business, I go and report to the fare adjustment office. I am responsible for my office, the front gate, the east gate, and Keimyung College. I try to listen to students' dissatisfaction, and I try to praise people and listen to their concerns. Q. Could you please tell us about the characteristic of the job?I've been working for about 8 years. I think my main work is public relations. The main thing is greeting. A hearty greeting i
The Gazette recently met the famous fairy tale writer Kim Myung-hee. She graduated from Keimyung University in 2006, majoring in creative writing. Now she is a Keimyung graduate student. Don't be surprised! She is 48 years old now. Most people think that it is a time to arrange and review their lives; however, she never thinks about that. She continues to work for her dream and a better future. She recently won the Buddha Literary Prize, a prize only awarded to writers who have worked for over 7 years in their literary field. It is also only awarded to one writer every 5 years. She has also re
Keimyung University’s Speed Limit club is readying a car to take part in the “Mini Baja Competition” from June 7 to 10 in Rochester, New York. The competition is run by the American Society of Automotive Engineers and sponsored by companies such as Toyota, Honda, Polaris, and Briggs & Stratton. Students from universities around the world join the competition to enhance their practical experience.Speed Limit is the only Korean team to have joined this competition for four consecutive years. The leader of Speed Limit, Kim Soon-dong, said “We hope that our car, DD 07, will finish in the top ten.
New freshmen enter Keimyung University annually. They need some help to get to know Keimyung University. That is why we have students guides, called EeKkeumi in Korean. These guides help freshmen and transfer students get information and guide them around the campus. I interviewed Jeong Yeon-chul, the leader of the students guides and a junior from the Faculty of Tourism Management Information System.Q. Could you introduce the freshmen guides? We help new students enter university. We belong to Admission Affairs, and we started in April, 2005. Now we have four members and we are going to have