Each institution in Daegu is working hard to support the 2011 IAAF World Championships.As a designated hospital, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center created support groups for medical treatment and has held programs to educate them. The support groups, including Professor Lee Dong-pil (Director of the Local Organizing Committee’s Medical and anti-doping program), doctors, nurses and physical therapists, are responsible for the health of 2000 players, 1500 staff and 2500 reporters involved in the event.Cha Soon-do, Director of Dongsan Medical Center, said “the World Championship in Athle
Keimyung University will launch a Super-Mentor Program that will run from August to December 2011. This program was devised to support students and create an atmosphere of effective foundation building. The mentees will be paired with an expert who works in a relevant field to develop a mentoring relationship over a period of time. They will be given one-on-one tutoring so they can learn the foundation of their field, such as the steps between drawing up a business plan and making a final product. This program will be conducted this semester among thirty identified clubs. Thirty corps of mento
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
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
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 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.