Park Jong-bum, whose major is Japanese Studies in the Graduate School of Keimyung University, has been selected to study abroad on a National Scholarship. The scholarship offers students who want to study in Japan tuition and living expenses until they finish their doctoral programs. With this, students can study without burden of tuition and living costs. Because of these benefits, a lot of students apply for this scholarship program every year.In a fierce competition, Park was chosen to study in Japan on a full scholarship. He is going to study Japanese literature in Nagoya University from t
On February 26, Tanzanian locals completed the 2nd Korean education elementary course which KMU established last October. 50 locals have completed this course since July last year. The number of enrollees in short-term Korean courses which KMU offers also has increased to 230 people in 5 months in the National Zimbabwe University Korea Center. There are over 200 locals studying Korean at Zimbabwe University Korea Center. KMU officials said, “We are operating Korean education course by dispatching teachers to Dodoma University and Zimbabwe University. Korean textbooks and instructional material
On February 15, KMU students were awarded the grand prize in the Spark Design Awards held in San Francisco. They are four students from the Department of Industrial Design: Hyuntae Kim, Hyuntae Roh, Seungmin Bak, and Khanyoung Kong. The Spark Design Awards are an international design award. The awards have six sections: Apps, Concept, Communication, Mobility, Product, and Space.The students submitted a Multi Wrench, a wrench that can be used with 5 different bolt measures, to the awards. With this wrench, people can use 5 different bolts with one wrench. Their entry won the grand prize in the
Park Sang-won, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science in Keimyung University, was honored by the Ministry of Environment at the opening ceremony for the recyclable resources market at the Korea Environment Corporation in Incheon.Prof. Park has worked as a consultant for the Ministry of Environment and contributed greatly to opening the recyclable resources market. A recyclable resources market is an online market to enable people to trade secondhand goods. He got credit for opening the recyclable resources market from the Ministry.A recyclable resources market is a good example
The Realbird team won the first prize in the UCC contest hosted by Nutrilite. This contest is a part of a campaign called “Health Is a Genuine Spec.” It was held to give students an opportunity to have novel ideas and give awareness about health to many university students who are indifferent to their health.The contest had two categories for university students and graduate students. Many students participated in this contest and it was really competitive. The Realbird team participated in the UCC category. They won the first prize and got a three million won scholarship. Ahn Gwang-ho, the te
KMU student Im Hyun-mi (20), a freshman in the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the School of Medicine, was awarded the grand prize at the 2012 Undergraduate Conference organized by the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of Korea.This contest was designed for university students and was held to promote undergraduate academic work in rehabilitation engineering at the society’s 2012 Annual Fall Conference. Im Hyun-mi presented a thesis on the development of an upper limb rehabilitation program based on mobile games (co-authors: Prof. Lee Jong-ha and Prof. Gu Jung-
A Keimyung University student won second prize in the 31st National Exhibition of Korean Architecture. This exhibition is the most famous and best competition in the Korean architecture field. Among 800 competitors, Lim Hoon, whose major is architecture, got a 2,000,000 won scholarship. The exhibition’s theme was houses and science. Lim Hoon exhibited his work Linear Yard. His work was a presentation of a way to improve the quality of life of students who live near Keimyung University. He said he got the idea from an advertisement near the school. In his opinion, residents can make residents g
On November 7, Yu Woo-ik, the Minister of Unification, gave a special lecture in the audio-visual room of Bauer Hall. The topic of his lecture was the Korean peninsula’s circumstances and unification policies. Synn Il-hi, the president of KMU, professors, and students attended the lecture.Yu Woo-ik explained that he has given 50 lectures because he felt the necessity to heighten the new generation’s awareness of unification. He stressed the appropriateness of unification, saying that “Reunification is necessary to overcome the division cost and develop our potential as a unified nation.” He em