On March 3, the East Gate parking booth moved 20 meters into campus to solve the traffic problems of waiting for the traffic lights and entering and getting out of campus.Jeong Jun-ho, a member of the Management Team said, "As the East Gate parking booth and the Keimyung Art Center are close, serious traffic problems were expected to happen. Most of the visitors for concerts or exhibitions in the Keimyung Art Center will use the East Gate for parking, so we had no choice but to change the location."Fortunately, the College of Music and Performing Arts has been finished, and this has a new unde
Keimyung University, as a leader in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk region, is setting up the foundations for a U-Campus(Ubiquitous Campus) through a WIBRO (Wireless Broadband Internet) service from March 2008.On March 7, Lee Jin-woo, the president of the university, and No Dae-jeon, the chief of KT Daegu, signed an agreement to set up a WIBRO campus. Both parties agreed to an exchange of human and material resources to set up a WIBRO zone and thereafter a U-Campus. At the end of January, Keimyung finished the installation and trial of necessary equipment based on an agreement with KT last year. When
Gokmu.com, the combined press portal site in Keimyung University, has been redesigned this year. The university digital press team focused on Web design, and finally completed its work on February 14. Gokmu.com has three essential points. First, Gokmu.com design allows users to navigate all the menus and sections easily through its classified information categories. Second, images of the Main Administration Building and the Main Gate of our university express Keimyung’s identity visually and represent the atmosphere of the university portal site. Finally, it has reduced the steps necessary to
From January 10 to 29, Keimyung University and the student association negotiated over tuition fee increases. The main reasons for increasing the tuition fee were inflation, employing new teaching staff, and construction work. At first, the university suggested an increase of 9.6%, but the student association could not agree with that suggestion. After 22 negotiations, they both agreed to increase fees by 5.7% this year. Through this negotiation, the university will run one more school bus to north Chilgok and will use 0.4% of the tuition fee for student welfare facilities. In the case of othe
The Center for International Education moved into the new building located to the south of Youngam Hall. The building, also called The Center for International Education, has five above-ground and two basements stories. construction began on February 27, 2006, and was completed on December 18, 2007. This building is shared by Keimyung International College (KIC), The China Center, and the Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation. The Center for International Education has high-technology equipment like an internet-based test (IBT) lab, a simultaneous interpretation lab, and a language
From January 7 to 25, the first Pre-English House program for freshmen was held in the International Education Center. The placement test and orientation were held on December 28. About 40 students attended this program, which lasted for three weeks. New freshmen studied for six hours a day from Monday to Friday, starting at 9 a.m. and finishing at 4 p.m. There were four classes in the program, which was organized into four parts: speaking and writing by foreign teachers, and then reading and listening by Korean teachers. After the program, students received a certificate and can apply for the
Various volunteer works were performed during the winter. Firstly, the College of Environment and the General Student Club Association participated in volunteer works at the Taean oil accident, which happened in December. In the College of Environment, about 50 students and professors went there on December 20. In the General Student Club Association, about 100 students went there on December 27 and on January 11, 2008. The Keimyung 1% Love Sharing Movement had a “Christmas Celebration of Love” on December 8. About 30 members participated as volunteers. In this event, about 70 children from Ed
Keimyung University freshman Jeong Sa-rang, often called a linguistic genius, won first prize in the university section of the first national Russian speech contest. The contest, in which 80 teams participated, was held at Yonsei University. Sa-rang’s five minute speech was entitled “What I know about Russia.”The judges were unsparing in their praise for her at the awarding ceremony which was held in the hall of the Korea Economic Daily. Sa-rang was the youngest of all the prize winners. When she was14 years old, she entered Keimyung University. Now she is a freshman in the Faculty of Russian
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