Keimyung University donated 20 million won for residents who were damaged by the forest fire in Pohang. According to the vice-president of management, Keimyung University delivered the money along with words of comfort. This fund was raised by the whole staff of Keimyung University.Also, the university gave one million won to the staff of the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation.In addition, Keimyung University looked for KMU students damaged by the fire and the extent of the damage to give them special scholarships. The vice-president of management said, “There are many students from Poha
Tuck & Company, Inc. which runs a used mobile items marketplace concluded an agreement with Keimyung University on January 10. On January 19, the company released the “Hello Market Green Campus” application.This application allows students to quickly register items to sell through a smart phone’s camera. Also, this application offers location-based services (LBS) to show a seller’s location in the school, so this application connects sellers with consumers more easily. Students can search for items in real time that they want to buy. And, this application has a function that when the items tha
On January 21th, an honorary doctorate conferment ceremony was held in Adams Chapel. Ukifune Kunihiko, the GK academy president, got an honorary doctorate of education, and Moshe Sharon, the chief of Daegu-Tech, got an honorary doctorate of business administration. About 1,000 distinguished guests, including the Israeli ambassador Tuvia Israeli who gave the congratulatory message, participated in this ceremony. The event included the achievement introduction, honorary doctorate certificate presentation and speech by Synn Il-hi, valedictory speech, congratulatory speech, and pipe organ performa
Keimyung University recently had a program for children and the elderly called “Mentoring Service Program for Children”. About 80 children from Namgu, Dalseogu, and Dalseounggun's multicultural and low-income families visited 28 elderly people who live alone. The children delivered letters and handmade presents and performed various activities for them. This event, which was designed for children to learn the value of sharing and helping others, ended January 11.Park Ji-won who is a 6th grader at Bongduck Elementary School said, “I visited an elderly person’s house on the advice of my teacher.
The Foundation Support Group of Keimyung University, which was selected as the Leading Foundation University by Small and Medium Business Administration, held a special lecture, Establishment on eBay, for people who are interested in buying and selling things on eBay on January 11 at the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation building on Sungseo campus. This site is the world number one electronic commerce site.Kim Young-mun of the Foundation Support Group lectured about basic preparations for establishing an account, essential knowledge for sellers, on-the-job training in registering produc
Keimyung University President Synn Il-hi was appointed as an honorary consul general of Korea in Poland from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Polish government on December 20th, 2012.President Synn has been Poland’s honorary consul since October 2005. His new position’s term is 5 years.President Synn has a deep relationship with Poland. He established the Korea-Poland Association in 1995 and served as the first president until 2006. He also established a dual-degree program with Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and opened the Keimyung F. Chopin Academy of Music in 1998.Also
Nam, Jun-gu, a senior at Keimyung University majoring in Japanese Language and Literature, was awarded the first prize at the 12th University Student's Japanese Competition. His topic was “Passive Life” and he presented in excellent Japanese that although he has lived driven by others, he has enjoyed his life.He said, "I wasn't interested in entering university but my friend recommended this major. I won this prize, now I feel interested in being here. If I enjoy and am satisfied my life, even though other people pushed me to do this, the result will still be optimistic and good."His victory i
Keimyung University Professor Kwon Dae-joong’s research paper was selected for 'Best Humanities and Social Science Research for the last 10 years'. This competition was held by the NRF (National Research Foundation of Korea) to celebrate the program intended to nurture humanities and social science research.There were 147 research papers from universities all over the country selected by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation of Korea. Professor Kwon, from the Department of Philosophy, examined Hegelian philosophy of language and claimed