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
On November 2, KMU held a mock international conference at the New Bauer Hall in Seong-seo campus. The theme of the conference was 'the Korean economy and the FTA.' The goals of the conference were to help KMU students understand the effects of the FTA throughout the world, to know the present situation and to talk about the ways to improve it.18 students from five departments in the College of International Studies participated in the conference as chairman, vice chairman and representatives from each country. The representatives presented stakes that the countries have in the FTA, and positi
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
Professor Yoon Jae-woo in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Keimyung University was chosen as the winner of the ‘Young Scientist Prize’ at the 2011 general meeting of the Japanese Microbial Resources Association. Professor Yoon received the prize in Japan’s Sapporo convention center at September 8th. He gave a prize lecture on the system of the microorganism Phylum Verrucomicrobia.The ‘Young Scientist Prize’ was given to only one young scientist under 40 years old who did excellent research. Professor Yoon used the ‘in situ cultivation technique’ in his research. He analyzed biochem
The CSL (Complex Structure Laboratory) team, which consisted of four students from the Department of Civil Engineering, won second place in the earthquake resistant design competition held at Taiwan National University on September 25.Professor Chang Jun-ho of the Department of Civil Engineering and leader of the CSL team won the Leadership Award. This contest is known as world’s fourth-largest. Many countries participated, including Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Taiwan and so on. So, this contest was highly competitive.Also, the CSL team devised a unique Bracing(board to re