There are so many local festivals in Korea that it can be hard to choose where to go in summer. I am sure that Boryeong Mud Festival is one of the most popular festivals. This festival is held every July, around Daecheon Beach in Boryeong and 2017 is the 20th anniversary. Boryeong Mud Festival was selected as a representative Korean festival in 2008 and more than 10,000 foreigners visit Boryeong Mud Festival every year. The hero of this festival, the mud from Boryeong is made of sea mud from a pure mud flat in Daecheon Beach. It contains not only minerals, but also nutritious ingredients that
On May 22, 22 people including children who attended Ariana Grande’s performance at Manchester Stadium were killed in a terror attack. After the show, two huge explosions occurred at the entrance of the stadium. The terrorist died when he detonated the second bomb. The bomber, Salman Ramadan Abedi, was a British Sunni Muslim born in Manchester. Not long after, there was another terror attack in London. On June 3, citizens and travelers were attacked on and near London Bridge. Three men drove a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and then got out of the van and invaded the nearby pubs and res
Keimyung University's Dongsan Library held ‘Library Resource-sharing Mentoring’ program on from August 7. Library resource-sharing is for university students to volunteer for improving local libraries-specifically, school and small scale libraries. Since 2011, at the beginning of summer vacation, this library resource-sharing mentoring has been implemented seven times a year. Through this program, university students have volunteered to do various activities such as reading books, painting a mural, and arranging bookshelves. The library’s director said, “In the future, we will tend to encourag
The Publication Industry Promotion Agency of Korea (KPIPA) announced that they selected 320 scholarly books from across ten fields as ‘2017 scholarly books of Sejong’. KPIPA judged 4,013 scholarly books which were published from March last year to February this year. From these judged books, five scholarly books written by KMU professors were selected. These five books were from three sections: whole area, social science, technology. The titles of these books are, Social Media and Media Politics of Korea; When you know American Parties, You Can See American Politics; Logic of Transition Age; T
The Keimyung University Taekwondo Performance Team won second place in the Senior Taekwondo Gymnastic Competition, at the 2017 Anyang World Taekwondo Hanmadang. This festival was held between July 29th and August 1st with 64 countries and 5732 athletes. The Taekwondo Gymnastic Competition was held on the 31st.The team which consisted of Gayeon Gang and 8 other members was considered as a rising star of this competition. The performance was not longer than 3 minutes but every movement of the players combined with the fast music to dominate the assembly. Keimyung University got 9 points, but fin
The Keimyung University Judo team won gold in the team event at the 2017 Summer National Men’s and Women’s University Judo Championship which ended at Inje Gymnasium in Gangwon-do on July 14th. This means that the KMU team got the championship flag back after three years. Also, a coach, Bae Jin-beom and an athlete, Lee Hong-joo from the Keimyung University Judo team won the best coach and the most valuable player award (MVP). Furthermore, Lee Hong-joo got the bronze medal in the individual event under-81kg division.
‘The Korea Textile Design Contest’ was held at the Korea Design Center on July 27. This contest was held to encourage the importance of textile design and to discover talented people within the field. This contest is divided into printing and woven, knit, and embroidery, and the usage of art is interior, apparel, and accessory. Kang Young-ha, a KMU student, received the presidential prize which is a first prize. She showed her artwork ‘Food Girl’ based on the theme of nature exploration. In her artwork, she reflected a complicated relationship between fruit and vegetables and meat raised by hu
Kyeimyung University concluded a start-up trade agreement with Amity university. It is part a network for students to do start-ups abroad. The local newspaper, ‘The Telegraph’, also had interest in it, and wrote an article about it. Keimyung Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship is on the way to constructing an advance start-up base and accelerating the vitality of start-ups. India has the 3rd largest start-up market in the world. Mr. Mody, the prime minister of India, presents ‘Make in India, Digital India, Startup India’ as 3 national agendas and aims to help start-ups flourish cross-na
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