On November 16, the student arts troupe of China Shandong University, Wei Hai branch, visited Keimyung University and performed in the Bauer Hall multimedia room.The students troupe performed a quartet (horse racing), a solo (rattan), martial arts, a dance (Aagacci), among other things. The martial art performance, including Palguekgwon, Taeguekgwon, Pyeongwon, and swordmanship, attracted the audience’s attention. Also, in the quartet, we were able to enjoy Chinese traditional instruments which made beautiful harmonious sounds.Shandong University Wei Hai branch school vice president, Ryu Wi Di
Johnny Chun, who was the interpreter of former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, gave a special lecture on November, 10 at Euiyang Hall.The subject of the lecture was ‘How to study English?’. He told students before starting the lecture, “Don’t think that English is difficult. Believe you can do it. Although I couldn’t talk with foreigners, I am teaching English now. Make your dream come true.” He said that ‘how’ is more important than ‘what’ in studying English and he also said that when you study English, follow this order: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. In addition, he stressed that
On November third, a special sex education lecture was held. The title was 'Love your body campaign with teacher Gu Seung Ae'. The lecture included many events like a pop quiz time and asking questions to teacher Gu Seung Ae. The students who said the correct answer received a book written by Gu Seung Ae. During the lecture, students got a lot of information related to many situations, such as how to recover from sexual abuse, the correct methods of contraception when we have sex, different meanings of sex between men and women, sound sex and so on. The primary purpose of the event was to intr
On October 30, the final of 'The Keimyung Presentation Competition of Dream, Hope and Future' was held. At the preliminaries, 75 university students and 253 middle/high school students participated. By the time of the finals, 20 students (10 university students; 10 middle/high school students) made presentations about their dream, hope and future for 5 minutes each. The purpose of the competition was to foster global leaders by making presentations on their ‘dream, hope and future’, and to help students to find their own self-images and abilities. After the presentations, there was an awards c
Five Keimyung University students, who made a team named Cancrelat, participated in the 2010 Glocal Cast. The Global Cast is a contest hosted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and supervised by The Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology, and over one thousand teams participated in the contest. After contestants visited their own local leading companies, industrial areas, and Techno-parks, they submitted reports based on ways to develop local companies. They then made a blog containing the reports, which were evaluated by netizens and experts. The KMU team came first place in Daegu an
On September 28, the Department of Taekwondo revealed that ten students will be dispatched to the taekwondo center located in the gym of the Public Security Bureau in Vietnam.The Keimyung students will stay for 12 weeks from October in Vietnam and teach taekwondo and the Korean language to agents of the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam, students, and Hanoi citizens.In February 2009, Keimyung University signed an M.O.U. with the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam in regard to cooperation for exchanging performers and athletic directors. Officers and taekwondo performers of the Ministr
On September 28, Kim Bum-il, the mayor of Daegu, gave a special lecture to Keimyung University students in the Bauer Hall multimedia room. The topic of his lecture was “Global leadership”.Kim Bum-il explained global leadership using many interesting examples. Furthermore, he said, “It is important to have a good command of a foreign language to survive in global society.” On another point, he stated, “The economic condition of Daegu is in crisis now because the speed of industrial development in Daegu is very slow. To develop the industry it is necessary to attract many conglomerates, procure
On September 16, Dongsan Student Aid Foundation‘s Delivery Ceremony of Scholarships was held in the audiovisual room of Hengso museum. Scholarship students and professors attended.Before the ceremony began, the attendees watched a video advertising Keimyung University. After prayers lead by Kim Moon-young (chaplain of keimyung university), the delivery ceremony of scholarships began. President Synn gave the certificates of scholarship and words of encouragement to scholarship students. 85 students received scholarships, including high school students, and the amount of the scholarship fund was