On May 2, an organ solo was held at Keimyung University Adams Chapel. The recital was arranged by the College of Music and Performing Arts. Willy Ippolito, who comes from France, played the organ. The recital contained Bach’s Toccata, Adagio and Fuga, Pachelbel’s Aria Quinta from Hexacordum Appolinis, Cabanilles’ Passacalles, and Vivaldi’s Concerto Grosso d-Moll RV 565.Willy Ippolito served as the Notre-Dame de Boulogne-Billancourt organist and currently serves as harpsichord and organ professor at the National Conservatory in Charleville-Mzires, his hometown. He is also engaged in organ resea
On April 20, the Personality Education Symposium was held in the audiovisual room of Keimyung University Hengso Museum. It was a symposium by several experts on the present state of personality education in the global age.Park Hee-Gu, the dean of the College of Liberal Education, gave a brief introductory greeting instead of the president of Keimyung. Son Dong-Hyun, a professor at Sungkyunkwan University, emphasized the importance of personality education. His presentation was followed by other presentations on personality education. Lee Hyun-Ji, the head of Keimyung University Personality Edu
Keimyung University was the top private regional university in the 2016 University Social Responsibility Index. This measure was designed by the Korea Social Responsibility Network (KSRN) and Tomato Corporate Social Responsibility research institute. The evaluation involved 149 private universities nationwide. A perfect score on this evaluation was 4.5. Keimyung University got an average of 3.635. Keimyung got excellent grades in various fields. The university was particularly praised in the student, community and environment categories. It was praised for educational expenses per student and
The Ministry of Education announced that Keimyung University (KMU) was selected for CORE, the acronym for COllege of humanities Research and Education. Seven universities in the capital and nine regional universities were selected. CORE is the first financial support for research and education in colleges of humanities. This initiative was made to overcome the low popularity and the low employment rate of humanities majors. The Ministry of Education will give a total of 60 billion won under CORE to revitalize and strengthen humanities departments. In Daegu, only Keimyung University and Kyungpo
On March 12, at Keimyung University’s College of Business Administration, the CEO Forum was held. The lecturer was Ju Jin-tae, Samchang Engineering Co. CEO, who gave a lecture about management. He talked about relationships with superiors, coworkers, and customers. According to Ju Jin-tae, the mind has great power to help people improve their relationships. His lecture revealed how to build harmonious relationships between coworkers, superiors, and customers. He said, “If you change yourself, your surroundings will change.” This means controlling your mind can make you much better than now.The
KMU President Synn llhi visited Turkey through the city of Istanbul’s official invitation from January 27 to February 2. President Synn and Istanbul University President Mahmut Ak discussed academic exchange for research on the Silk Road’s history and culture. Both universities decided to start student exchange in the second semester 2016 Istanbul University is a Turkish public university with a 550-year history. It has produced presidents of Turkey and the first Turkish Nobel Literature Prize winner, Orhan Pamuk. KMU opened the Silk Road Central Asia Institute in 2014 for academic research an
Keimyung University Startup Support Center and Daegu Metropolitan City held a startup companies EXPO. The event was held from February 17 to 19. It was held in Prime Hall in Debec Plaza. Many startup companies, university clubs, and individuals participated in it. Successful startup companies and university clubs supported by Keimyung University Startup Support Center prepared exhibition booths. They showed various products. There were foods, new materials, and craft works. Many programs were prepared for participants. For example, there were an information bureau about startups and experience
A skills program for professors was held at Hotel Inter-Burgo from February 2 to 3. The main topic of this program was how to make good teaching materials. The instructor was Choi Young-su from the Korea Presentation Center.The program focused on making materials with PowerPoint and editing video materials. The first day’s topic was PowerPoint. Choi Young-su taught 5 ways to help improve lecture quality and create effective PPT materials. The second day’s topic was editing and creating video materials. He taught how to save and edit videos from YouTube. 39 professors from Keimyung University p