Huh Kyung-mi, a Keimyung University professor in the Department of Police Administration, was awarded the Presidential Citation as part of the commemoration of the 68th anniversary of the police. Professor Huh got credit for contributing to the selection talented police officers and for being actively involved in promoting police officers. She is active in the field of police administration and public order and safety. For example, she is the civil inspector commissioner of the Daegu Metropolitan Police Agency, the woman police policy research president of the Korean Police Studies Association
Jeon Young-won (senior) and Jeong Eun-ji (junior), who are students in the Department of Industrial Design, won a prize at the Red Dot Design Awards 2013. They attended the competition as the team “To Be Winner.” The competition was held in the Singapore Red Dot Museum. 4394 works from 56 countries were submitted.The “To Be Winner” team exhibited the “45 degree PIN-DOWN,” which helps people to drive tent pins into the ground without a hammer, and the “seesaw stretcher,” which uses the seesaw principle and the distribution of a patient’s body weight to keep the patient horizontal, even if the f
On November 5, KMU won the first prize at a contest for investment in social services in Daegu. It was supported by the Management Center for Social Service in Daegu. About 170 groups such as volunteer, mentoring, and university volunteer organizations participated in this contest. The contest was carried out to promote social investment.The Investment in Social Services group, which is under the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of KMU, got high marks with the project “Music Virus (Happy Music).” “Music Virus (Happy Music)” has been run since 2009 to develop the musical talent of child
The Keimyung University Taekwondo demonstration team is getting attention as an envoy of Korea. The Keimyung University Taekwondo demonstrations team, which is made up Department of Taekwondo students, performed a Taekwondo demonstration at the Istanbul-Gyeongju World Culture Expo for one month.Keimyung University Taekwondo demonstration team is the only Taekwondo demonstration team in a Daegu-Gyeongbuk area university and is valued as the best among domestic demonstration team.Since last year, the demonstration team performed Taekwondo in the USA, Austria and Vietnam. Audiences were especiall
Keimyung University leads the local community's globalization efforts by holding various foreign language educational programs and administering foreign language tests.KMU is accepted as the only official test agency of 4 foreign languages in the Yeongnam area. On October 23, KMU revealed that it had been selected as the test agency for TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) and HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test), after being selected as the test agency of TORFL (Test of Russian as a Foreign Language) in 2002. Furthermore, KMU was selected as the test agency for German ability tests this Oc
Kim Jin-su (senior), who is a student in the Department of Industrial Design in Keimyung University, won the grand prize at the 1st Marine Environment Advertisement Contest hosted by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries and the Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation.This contest was hosted to announce the importance of the marine environment and inspire the preservation of the marine environment. Anybody who is more than 18 years old could attend. A total of 250 works from all over the country were presented.Kim Jin-su was inspired by the news that Korea has established a tree-plantin
On September 24, at the Main Administration Building, KMU concluded a business exchange agreement with DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute Of Science and Technology) to cultivate people of talent in science by building a cooperative system to exchange researchers, do joint projects, exchange students, acknowledge credit exchange, and exchange curriculum, academic information, and facilities and equipment.By sharing science and technology education and research that are DGIST's specialized areas and KMU’s competitiveness in the field of humanities, arts, and physical education, it is expected that
On September 8, 4 books written by KMU professors were chosen as “2013 Superior Academic Books” by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). This project was carried out to promote research about literature, science, philosophy, mathematics, and history. NAS members and guest specialists consisting of professors from several universities chose 300 books from the fields of humanities, social science, Koreanology, and natural science. Among them, 4 books are by KMU professors. The 4 selected books are A New Study of Chu-tzu’s Doctrines by Prof. Lee Dong-hee, The Prose Works of Han-yu: a Korean Tra