At Adams Chapel on November 17, Keimyung University and Korea Food for the Hungry International (KFHI) held an event “Making Kimchi for Poor People”. Synn Il-hi, the president of KMU, Jung Jeong-seob, the president of KFHI, KMU students, professors, multicultural family members, and single mother family members attended this event. Korean TV actress Kim Jung-hwa and vocalist Choi Hwa-jin also attended.KMU professors and staff donate 1% of their salary every month. This donated money was used to make kimchi for poor people. In this event, people made 3,000 heads of kimchi. People made kimchi fo
On September 22, broadcast announcer Jang Jin-yeong’s special lecture was held in the multimedia room at New Bauer Hall. She is an announcer at TBC (Tomorrow’s Broadcasting Corporation). The title of the lecture was ‘The way to communicate well.’ She talked about her experiences being an announcer.She advised, “If you want to be an announcer, proper tone is the basis for everything else. Also, the expression and posture should be right. In addition, the most important thing is an ability to deliver. The language delivers one’s thinking effectively and persuades people. You have to grow the ess
The Sixth Sense team, which consisted of 6 members, got first prize in the first Creative Innovation Sports Project (CISP) sports idea contest.This contest was held to overcome a crisis of youth unemployment and shortage of sports experts and was aimed at university students. Its theme was finding ideas for a sports job fair.Sixth Sense’s idea is to help athletes show their ability by gathering people related to sports like athletes and agents in a job fair. It will help to scout and employ athletes. They were judged on making a creative idea, which brought them a first prize of three million
Keimyung University created a new style of festival. Most university festivals are about inviting popular singers and opening a tavern for drinking. However, on September 21 and 22, KMU held a festival with sound and fresh items.The theme of the festival was “Festival going wild, Catharsis.” There were programs like a campaign for non-smoking and non-drinking, and a special lecture about getting a job. There were some events for students such as anabada (a charity bazaar) and a campaign where people donated their blood donation cards.The chief of KMU clubs Kang Moon-jo said, “We’ve been feelin
Kim Da-young, the Department of Textile Design, received the President’s Award in the 22nd Korea Textile Design Contest, which was hosted by the Federation of Korea Textile Industries.This contest was held to discover talented textile designers. Students from fifty universities all over the country and citizens competed in apparel, interior, and accessory fields. About 1800 works were entered in the exhibition. Keimyung University produced six winners in this contest, which was the largest record.Kim Da-young was given ten million won and a chance to receive training abroad with her work “Indi
The Do-Dream team, which consists of four students from the Department of Business Administration, was selected by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology as an industry-university cooperation team. It is one of 12 teams selected nationally. The team will soon begin their work of providing a link between companies and universities in Korea. The team was chosen to run a public awareness campaign. The Do-Dream team will take on making a newspaper, maintaining a blog, and promoting industry-university cooperation. On September 28, the Do-Dream team received appointment certificates, T-s
Keimyung University held leadership training for the Student Council in Dok-do and Ulleung-do from August 17 to 19. Lee Sung-bae, the president of the General Student Council (GSC) said, “We visited Dok-do to thank the Dok-do police who work hard to protect Dok-do. It was a good chance to understand their work. This training was short, but it was very meaningful.” Originally, Keimyung University Student Council scheduled leadership training in Jeju Island. However, the Council decided to visit Dok-do for leadership training because of the situation between Korean and Japan over Dok-do. Before
The Sokdowuiban team, which consisted of nine students from the Department of Mechanical Automotive Engineering, won the KSAE Baja Competition held in Gunsan Saemangeum Motor Center from August 17 to 19. The team received a championship flag, trophy, certification of merit, and about $4,000 prize money. This contest selected the winning team through a race with vehicles designed and manufactured by each team. The judges evaluated the vehicles on strict standards such as design, manufacture, and acceleration. This year, about 120 teams from 70 universities participated. The contest, which was h