On June 9, regional representatives of 97 leading companies, KMU president Synn Il-hi, and 120 officials attended the inauguration ceremony which was held in Euiyang Hall on Seongseo Campus.The ceremony is important in terms of supporting lots of Industry-University collaboration policies by constructing a ‘hub’ that systemically manages the network.The supporting programs include many aspects such as a family business collaboration system construction, R&D (research and development) businesses, expansion of CEO (chief executive officer) professors, and a family company scholarship.These contr
The department of fashion at Keimyung University hosted a meeting and introduced various styles of clothes from UN FIT, Japan culture academy college , and China’s Qinghua college.The event took place for over 2 hours and was composed of the international fashion show and the graduation project fashion show, which was conducted by Keimyung University students.Through this event, Keimyung University got the opportunity to gain a name as the internationally leading university in the field of fashion by exchanging with FIT, the prestigious American school.
On May 30, Keimyung University was certified for business education by the Korean Association of Business Education Accreditation (KABEA). Keimyung University is one of the first private universities to be certified in Daegu-Gyeongbuk.KAEBA was founded to develop business education and raise outstanding students. Since 2005, 22 universities have been certified by KABEA. Among them, there are only 5 non-capital universities and Keimyung University and Kyungbook National University were certified by KABEA in Daegu-Gyeongbuk.Keimyung University received good evaluations from KABEA, especially in
As the summer vacation is nearing, many parents are preparing to find good English camps for their children to attend. For this reason, a large number of English camps are available. Their purpose isn’t only to improve people’s ability in English: these programs can actually make people become proficient at studying English. Also, these programs can not only help students to discover their aptitude and vision, but they can also help to shape their future. The 2011 Summer Elite English Camp in Keimyung University’s Center for Continuing Education will take place at Keimyung University’s Sungseo
On May 27, Professor Vukan R. Vuchic’s special lecture was held in the audiovisual room of Hengso Museum. He is known as a scholar of traffic engineering. The theme of the lecture was transportation and the city. In the lecture, he said, “City transportation systems for vehicles have failed. Cities should be people-oriented based on public transportation.” About 350 people attended the lecture including many students from the Department of Transportation Engineering and the Department of Urban Planning, many faculty members, and President Synn Il-hi.In this lecture, Professor Vuchic said, “As
The automotive engineering club Speed Limit, composed of 5 Department of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering students, made the top 16 in the 2011 Baja SAE, supported by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), in Alabama. In this competition, teams made their own automobiles and one team member took part in a racing competition.This competition is demanding because competitors have to meet international safety regulations. Other universities in Korea students had already taken part in this competition, but none had met the standards.Team leader Yoon Jin-young (senior, Department of Mechan
The Pan-Confucius Institute Conference will take place at Keimyung University’s Seongseo Campus, and Beijing Language and Culture University, on 4th-6th October. This international conference will be attended by fourteen foreign universities’ president and officials, with the new common topic, ‘The new pattern of Pan-Confucius’s development of international cooperation.’ The opening ceremony will be performed by Choi Sang-ho, Vice-President of Keimyung University, and Beijing Language and Culture University’s chief of the academic board, who will announce the topic of the conference. The confe
On May 19, the new Hengso Museum shop, TAMM, opened. This brand was created by students of the Dept. of Fashion Marketing. Students reinterpreted traditional products like Korean patchwork from modern viewpointsThe Department of Fashion Marketing has displayed their graduation work in Hengso Museum several times, but they did not sell products. However, this time, they planned a new real brand and a shop to be run by the department to display graduation work. Students made 3 teams, a marketing team, a design team, and a promotion team, to create the brand and operate the shop. They did market