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
Keimyung University Undergraduate Choi Young-yoon Interns at the UN From March to July 2011, Choi Young-yoon, an undergraduate student at Keimyung University interned at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Choi Young-yoon is 23 years old, and in the Keimyung Adams College (KAC) department of International Relations. She said that “the UN followed the custom that required interns to be graduate students who had studied a related major. Actually I did not have such qualifications. So I had good luck and was offered a big opportunity to work at the UN as an undergraduate.”
Professor Kim Han Soo, of the Department of Urban Planning at Keimyung University was selected as the new chairman of the Korean Territory City Planning Society in Daegu and North Gyeonsang province at the regular meeting held at Keimyung University on August 15, 2011. The Korean Territory City Planning Society, which was founded in 1959 to contribute to research and development in designing cities and local regions, has contributed much in many ways by constructing many roads, highways, buildings and parks, and has developed new strategies and theories in designing cities and local regions. T
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
On July 17 to 22, there was a contest for selecting national taekwondo competitors for the Summer Universiad which will be held in Chungcheongnam-do in Cheongyang-gun. Through this contest, student Jang Min-ho, majoring in the Department of Taekwondo at Keimyung University, was chosen, winning the first prize in the man's 63kg class. The contest was supported by Korea University Taekwondo Federation.The purpose of the contest was to select national taekwondo competitors for the Summer Universiad that will be held from August 12 in Shenzhen, China. Lots of teams form all over the world particip
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
Thai Nguyen University 'Keimyung Korean education program' in North Hanoi has completed the 2nd year of co-operation on July, 25th.education program' had a 17 weeks regular course. It taught basic Korean to 22 university students and local citizens. Through a test, the program, 15 people received a certificate for Korean proficiency at Level 1 or Level 2.Keimyung University managed the Korean ability test preparative class for students who hope to study in Korea during August. The Korean proficiency test will take in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. A Korean intermediate course third level class wi
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