Keimyung University got many prizes including the first prize in female board breaking in the 2011 World Taekwondo Hanmadang. This competition was held from August 10 to 13 at Namyangju Sports Culture Center in Gyeonggi-do. 3700 people from 53 countries participated in the competition and competed in 11 events.Four students in the Department of Taekwondo got prizes in the competition. In taekwondo aerobics, students won the second prize.Kim Hyun-yee, who won the first prize in female board breaking, said, “Since my specialty is poomsae, I just participated in this competition without any expec
The Leaders team, Department of Media and Information, won the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family prize of 1,500,000 won in the Korea Youth UCC (User Created Contents) Camp which was held for the Daegu World Athletics Championships. This event included programs such as making Daegu maps, a green tour, and a youth club festival. Young people from all over the country made images of Daegu heritage sites and tourist spots in Daegu. Eighty-five teams participated in this competition. In the UCC video Leaders made, the main character gives an application “Hello Daegu” to tourists visiting Daegu
Synn Il-hi, President of Keimyung University, received the Grand Cross from Germany for improving relations between Korea and Germany. Hans-Ulrich Seidt, the Germany Ambassador to Korea, gave the medal to President Synn in Sung-seo campus on August 21.Ambassador Seidt said, “President Synn has promoted cultural exchange between Korea and Germany and improved international relations as chairman of the German exchange cooperation team. He became president of Keimyung University in 1978 and established the Department of German Language and Literature in 1982. In 1985, he was appointed president o
The Department of Industrial Design produced finalists in the International Design Excellence Awards 2011 (IDEA), which is sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). Choi Jee-min, Lee Han-sub, Jin Jun-ho, Choi Jung-ju, Park Mi-rim, and Kim Mee-yeon represented Keimyung.In IDEA, the judging standards are how innovative the design is, how useful it is to society and the environment, and appearance. These standards are hard to meet. Lee Han-sub said that he was motivated by a TV documentary. In that documentary, a blind man bought chocolate milk although he wanted to buy whi
On June 27, 17 students from the Department of Photography and Image Design had their works selected in the photography section of the 2011 Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival (ASYAAF).ASYAAF has been held every year since 2008. Undergraduates, graduate students, and under 30-year-old creative students from Asian countries like Korea, Japan, China, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines participate in ASYAAF. It has 6 fields – Western painting, Korean painting, engraving, photography, crafts, and media art. In 2011, 3182 people submitted their works, and 777 people were selected
On May 30, Keimyung University was certified for business education by the Korean Association of Business Education Accreditation (KABEA). Keimyung University is one of the first private universities to be certified in Daegu-Gyeongbuk.KAEBA was founded to develop business education and raise outstanding students. Since 2005, 22 universities have been certified by KABEA. Among them, there are only 5 non-capital universities and Keimyung University and Kyungbook National University were certified by KABEA in Daegu-Gyeongbuk.Keimyung University received good evaluations from KABEA, especially in
On May 27, Professor Vukan R. Vuchic’s special lecture was held in the audiovisual room of Hengso Museum. He is known as a scholar of traffic engineering. The theme of the lecture was transportation and the city. In the lecture, he said, “City transportation systems for vehicles have failed. Cities should be people-oriented based on public transportation.” About 350 people attended the lecture including many students from the Department of Transportation Engineering and the Department of Urban Planning, many faculty members, and President Synn Il-hi.In this lecture, Professor Vuchic said, “As
The automotive engineering club Speed Limit, composed of 5 Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering students, made the top 16 in the 2011 Baja SAE, supported by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), in Alabama. In this competition, teams made their own automobiles and one team member took part in a racing competition.This competition is demanding because competitors have to meet international safety regulations. Other universities in Korea students had already taken part in this competition, but none had met the standards.Team leader Yoon Jin-young (senior, Department of Mechan
2800 Dalgubeoldaero, Dalseo-Gu, Daegu, Korea 704-701
Tel : 053-580-5734 Fax : 053-582-5985
Copyright 2006 gokmu.com All Rights Reserved
