Keimyung University staff donated to the fellowship fund for Keimyung’s future. Nineteen staff, including Son In-ho, the Chairman of the steering committee, delivered 105,971,000 won on behalf of 303 other staff who participated in the donation on November 2nd. This contribution money has been saved during the last year. The money is to be used for the fellowship fund and for students’ scholarships.
The 2009 Keimyung University Top 10 News Stories were selected at the recommendation of 390 members of Keimyung (160 school personnel and 228 students).1. KMU to Establish College of PharmacyOn June 29, Keimyung University began preparations to establish a College of Pharmacy and has already secured 100 billion won in financial resources. 2. Keimyung University Selected as HR Development Center On June 12, Keimyung University was selected as an HRD (Human Resource Development) center for fostering regional industries by the Ministry of Education and Science Technology (MEST). As a result, KMU
On December 11, Kim Min-ju, a senior in the Department of Visual Communication Design in the College of Media Arts, won a gold prize and received 2,000,000 won prize money. She exhibited het storybook titled, Awaken the Giant within, in the 28th Daegu Design Exhibition held at Daegu Gyeongbuk Design Center. Kim's storybook was highly regarded for its visual illustrating technique based on outstanding ideas and creativity in its content. Kim's book indirectly recognizes potential abilities in children by way of interpreting their dreams, and the book was made to improve their imagination throug
Keimyung University Professor Yoon Kyung-pyo and Kyungpook National University Professor Kim Soon-kwon succeeded in producing recycled resource energy, bio-ethanol, using cornstalks. Owing to this success, it can be possible to get cheap and plentiful bio-ethanol energy using non-food agricultural by-products. On October 27, a member of the research team said, “The distinctive feature of this development is in its not using corn but cornstalks, and we could extract bio-ethanol through using a much smaller amount of enzyme.”America first developed bio-ethanol extraction from corn, but this succ
On October 27, “Youth Playground” won the first prize in the 4th sports industry promotion idea contest. The members are Lim Hyun-suk (senior, Department of Public Administration), Lee Jong-su (junior, Department of Management Information Systems) and Yoon Ha-na (senior, Department of Tourism Management).The team passed a preliminary test for the plan they submitted, titled, ‘A Strategy for Organizing Silver Sports and Make it Grow,’ and won the first prize, given by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and received five million won at the award ceremony.
On December 2, the 2009 Posco Campus Symphony Festival was held in Keimyung Art Center. The Euro-Asian Philharmonic Orchestra and Maestro Gum Nan-se provided the chance for Keimyung students and faculty and local residents to experience the artistic performance. This festival had already been held in Seoul National University, Hanyang University, Kwangwoon Universtiy, and Kyung Hee University.In the performance, Professor Lee Hwa-young of the College of Music and Performing Arts sang soprano, and Professor Kim Jung-hwa of the Deptartment of Practical Music Education sang mezzo soprano. They we
On December 2, the ceremony of delivering the development fund donated by Keimyung graduates’ association from Daegu Bank was held in the Office of the President. The vice-president, the Superintendent of External Affairs, and the Chief Officer of Public Relations, the City Business Center manager, the manager of Wolbae Business Center, the Kangchon branch, the Keimyung University branch and the vice manager of Daegu Bank participated in this ceremony. The donation of the association amounted to ten million won, which will be used for the future and development of Keimyung. The development fun
On November 12, the Dean of Academic Affairs announced Keimyung is going to carry out seventy-five minute classes along with the fifty minutes classes from 2010. Seventy-five minute classes are to improve the efficiency of three credit classes.Seventy-five minute classes have many advantages. First, they can increase the efficiency of study. For example, fifty minute classes cost much time calling the roll, so it was hard for the students to study effectively in the remaining time. In addition, while the previous break time was only ten minutes, it has increased to been fifteen minutes, which