Jeon Young-won (senior) and Jeong Eun-ji (junior), who are students in the Department of Industrial Design, won a prize at the Red Dot Design Awards 2013. They attended the competition as the team “To Be Winner.” The competition was held in the Singapore Red Dot Museum. 4394 works from 56 countries were submitted.The “To Be Winner” team exhibited the “45 degree PIN-DOWN,” which helps people to drive tent pins into the ground without a hammer, and the “seesaw stretcher,” which uses the seesaw principle and the distribution of a patient’s body weight to keep the patient horizontal, even if the f
On November 5, KMU won the first prize at a contest for investment in social services in Daegu. It was supported by the Management Center for Social Service in Daegu. About 170 groups such as volunteer, mentoring, and university volunteer organizations participated in this contest. The contest was carried out to promote social investment.The Investment in Social Services group, which is under the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of KMU, got high marks with the project “Music Virus (Happy Music).” “Music Virus (Happy Music)” has been run since 2009 to develop the musical talent of child
Kim Jin-su (senior), who is a student in the Department of Industrial Design in Keimyung University, won the grand prize at the 1st Marine Environment Advertisement Contest hosted by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation.This contest was hosted to announce the importance of the marine environment and inspire the preservation of the marine environment. Anybody who is more than 18 years old could attend. A total of 250 works from all over the country were presented.Kim Jin-su was inspired by the news that Korea has established a tree-plantin
On September 24, at the Main Administration Building, KMU concluded a business exchange agreement with DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute Of Science and Technology) to cultivate people of talent in science by building a cooperative system to exchange researchers, do joint projects, exchange students, acknowledge credit exchange, and exchange curriculum, academic information, and facilities and equipment.By sharing science and technology education and research that are DGIST's specialized areas and KMU’s competitiveness in the field of humanities, arts, and physical education, it is expected that
On September 8, 4 books written by KMU professors were chosen as “2013 Superior Academic Books” by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). This project was carried out to promote research about literature, science, philosophy, mathematics, and history. NAS members and guest specialists consisting of professors from several universities chose 300 books from the fields of humanities, social science, Koreanology, and natural science. Among them, 4 books are by KMU professors. The 4 selected books are A New Study of Chu-tzu’s Doctrines by Prof. Lee Dong-hee, The Prose Works of Han-yu: a Korean Tra
Twin sisters Jung Woo-kyoung and Jung Woo-min passed the female ROTC test on August 22. They wanted to be commissioned officers when they were high school students, so they applied for the Armed Forces Nursing Academy. However, they failed. Then they entered Keimyung University and passed the female ROTC test. In fact, the sisters failed the fifty-third female ROTC test. After that, they took a leave of absence for one year. They stayed physically fit doing Taekwondo. Also, they asked for advice from female ROTC superiors. As a result, the sisters got through the fifty-fourth ROTC test. Keimyu
Department of Theater Arts students won the gold prize at the First H-Art Dream Festival hosted by the Hyundai Motor Group and Korea Association of Performing Arts Products. The purpose of this contest is to help students who have creativity and talent to get a job. In this contest, more than 1,500 students from 45 universities participated. The contest had a document examination last April and the preliminaries until June. A total of 14 teams including 7 teams in the field of theater and 7 teams in the field of musicals advanced to the finals. The final was held in front of four thousand spec
Chang Eun-ho (29), who graduated from the Department of Composition in Keimyung University, has won the Queen Sofia Prize for Music Composition hosted by the Ferrer-Salat Music Foundation. He won the first prize and was the youngest musician in the competition.Chang won the grand prize and prize money of 25,000 euro for “Fantasia Luminosit.” The awards ceremony is scheduled on October 10, and performances are scheduled on October 10 and 11 in the Teatro Monumental in Madrid. The Queen of Spain will present the award. The composition will be played by the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony O