Keimyung University held a university admissions information fair in Keimyung Art Center on July 8. KMU provided personal counseling about majors and university entrance for the students.The event was the third this year, and the title was “Searching for My Dream in Keimyung University.” Over 100 staff participated in this event, including professors, admissions counselors, and admissions officers. It was a great help in resolving questions related to admissions.Keimyung University admissions officer Kang Moon-sik said, “This event was established to help students choose the right major throug
The 15th KMU Open University Program was held at the Seongseo and Daemyung campuses of KMU from July 21 to 22. This program is an event for high school students to experience university life. KMU was the first to start a university experience program in Daegu and Gyeongbuk.There were about 1700 participants from 62 high schools. Most of the participants were second graders from Daegu, Ulsan, Gyeongbuk, and Gyeongnam. The program was composed of visits to various departments, meetings with professors and seniors, an introduction of KMU, and some special lectures about entering university.Studen
Twenty-one students from Keimyung University’s Department of Fashion Marketing participated in the 2015 Milan Expo Special Exhibition (Expo in Citta 2015) held July 2 to 4. The exhibition was one part of the Expo Milano 2015.Daegu and Milan held a special exhibition in the Duomo Urban Center in Milan during their sister city celebrations. Twenty-one Keimyung University Department of Fashion Marketing students were invited to participate as an official of the city of Milan.The year the theme of the Milan Expo was food. So they showcased the Traditional Korean Culture exhibition by combining the
A lecture about the excavation of the Hoeam Temple site was held at Hengso Museum at 2 p.m. on June 30. This lecture is a part of the Hengso Museum’s culture academy at Keimyung Unversity. The instructor was Song Man-young who is a professor in the Department of History at Soongsil University. He introduced the Hoeam Temple site and talked about the history and structure of the site. The Heoam Temple site is in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province and was appointed as National Historic Site No. 128. The temple was built in 1376, but, it was unfortunately destroyed by fire in 1566. He also introduced reli
Professor Lee Tae-hui of Keimyung University won the best picture award for his digital image “Tic-Tac-Bang #15” at an exhibition held by the Korea Contents Association. This year, about 300 foreign and domestic pictures were entered and 10 best pictures were nominated. Lee Tae-hui is a professor in the Department of Video and Animation in the College of Fine Arts, the director of the Korean Society of Media & Arts and an operation committee member of the Daegu Art Factory. He was the invited artist at the ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival) special event, which was held at
Three books published by Keimyung University Press were chosen as Sejong Books in the scholarship section. Sejong Books has scholarly, cultural, and literature sections. Sejong Scholarship Books is run by the government every year to accelerate scholarly publishing work and to make the foundations of a knowledge society. The book named Wisdom: A Dialog Between Traditional and Modern was selected in the philosophy/ethics/psychologycategory. Professor Kwon Sang-woo from the College of Liberal Education and Professor Um Jin-sung from Yeungnam University co-authored the book. The book named Plants
Kim Dong-hwi (Department of Education) was selected for the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) by the U.S. State Department. This program provides part of the expenses such as tuition, airfare, living expenses, and medical insurance to selected students from around the world with ECA (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs) support. Selected students spend one semester or one year as an exchange student in an American university. This time, they selected four students from 500 applicants across Korea. The selected students will be assigned universities by the U.S. State Departme
Keimyung University signed an agreement with the Korea Trade Association to train global economy trade experts. Vice Chancellor of Teaching and Learning Lee Jung-hui and Trade Association Executive Director Lee Jae-chul visited Keimyung University’s Sung Seo Campus for the signing.Officials signed the agreement for training FTA experts to help solve the human resource shortage in the trade industry. Both organizations developed the FTA Characterization Curriculum and Non-subject Curriculum, as well as an E-learning system. Also they cooperated in FTA Characterization Training and Domestic and