The 2018 College of Nursing Nightingale Pledge Ceremony was held at Johnson Hall on March 9th, 2018. It is a ritual performed by the third year nursing students who have completed two years of basic nursing education. The Nightingale Pledge has been made in the USA since 1893. It is a ceremony where Nursing students pledge nursing ethics and nursing principles, and on that day, students lit candles promising to do their best in nursing. They keep the nightingale spirit in mind before doing practice. The Nightingale Pledge includes a commitment to look after patients and continue the nightingal
On March 22nd, Keimyung University concluded their industrial-educational cooperation with EXCO for the expansion of the MICE Industry. MICE meeting, incentive, convention, events and exhibition, and is a promising industry led by international conferences and exhibitions. EXCO is an exhibition center located in Buk-gu, Daegu. The cooperation agreement will cultivate MICE professionals for local society and expand the platforms for future MICE business.This agreement between KMU and EXCO includes internship programs, MICE work experience, and special lectures. Also, the two groups will coopera
KMU will hold the 4th AsiaㆍPacific Ocean International Chopin Piano Competition in May 2018. The finalists will participate in the competition from May 9th to May 18th for 10 days. On May 18th, there will be a gala concert, an award ceremony, and a concert for the winners in the Keimyung Art Center. The KMU AsiaㆍPacific Ocean International Chopin Piano Competition is held every three years starting with the first competition in 2009 and has been evaluated as having been established as a world-class competition welcoming its 4th competition. In addition, from this year the Chopin Association of
A special lecture from Lee Sihyung, the president of The Korea Foundation, will be held for economics and business administration students on May 15th. In The Korea Foundation, they teach what Korea is, what Korea has furthermore what Korea can do with or to foreigners. Connected with this, Mr. Lee also talked about public diplomacy in his lecture. He emphasized the invisible power of public diplomacy. Public diplomacy can be contrasted with conventional diplomacy which is related to negotiation between governments, and wants to charm others with soft power?which contains culture, art, knowled
Hengso Museum is hosting special classes about myths and tales for 12 weeks from 13 March to 5 June. During the lectures on Tuesdays, new professors host classes on various topic. It provides opportunity for local residents to study traditions and the humanities. This lecture is composed of topics about myths and tales and lecturers which teach historical content including eastern and western culture as well. Kwon-gu Kim, the chief of Hengso Museum, said that they invited respectable lecturers who are an authorities in their filed, so he felt honored. Also he hoped the students would have a go
Dongsan Library will implement Idea-Maker Space which can actualize an imaginable idea from the new semester for the first time. The expense for the new initiative will be paid by the College of Humanities' Research and Education, CORE.The Idea-Maker Space is on the third floor of Dongsan Library. This space is utilized for convergent training for readiness for the fourth industrial revolution. This offers students practice and experiment space which is able to give shape to imagination.This has installed 3D printers, scanners, and VR experiment equipment. VR equipment space consists of variou
Keimyung Humanities Capability Reinforcement Business Organization announced on January 19th that they had recently signed a cooperation agreement for practical training abroad with the local travel agency ‘Adstra Tour’ at the office of Adstra Tour in Mexico. In the agreement, Adstra Tour announced they would actively cooperate in running an overseas field practice program to strengthen the vocational ability of the students from Humanities International University at KMU. In particular, they will drive practical training programs abroad in Latin America from 2018. A total of 9 students are pa
Free Spanish lectures were from January 2nd to 19th hosted by the Core Project for students who want to start studying Spanish for the first time. There were more than 3 courses provided, and every class was provided for 3 weeks over the winter vacation. One course was for beginners who wanted to begin with grammar, and another was for students who wanted to begin with conversation this class was taught by a foreign professor. The final course was for students who want to take a Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language, also known as DELE, and it was available to any student who belongs to the