Keimyung University held a spring camp for freshmen from January 14 to 18. It targeted 70 students who had passed a special entrance examination for local talents as well as to offer equal opportunities for underprivileged class. The spring camp has been operated annually for 8 years. The camp's programs include basic courses for enhancing self-directed learning capabilities, writing classes, philosophy and presentation education, efficient time management for improving college life adaptation, meeting with student mentors, communication education for improving interpersonal skills and leaders
Vietnam is becoming an important emerging market in the world and Korea is thus trying to develop many opportunities of businesses with Vietnam. Various Korean companies are venturing to Vietnam and many Korean students are learning the Vietnamese language and culture. Furthermore, many Vietnamese also have a lot of interest in Korea. For example, they are enjoying K-pop and studying Korean, and these days the most popular Korean in Vietnam is Hang-seo Park who is a coach of Vietnamese national soccer team. With this increase in popularity between the two countries, the KMU newspapers and broa
In Korea, the day that announces the coming of spring is called Ipchun. Usually, it starts on January 24, but this year it is just before the Lunar New Year. So on January 30, five days before Ipchun, foreign students and college students wore hanbok and took pictures together in the Hanhak Village of Keimyung University. Ipchunchuk, which was experienced firsthand by foreign students, is a custom of writing on doors and pillars during Ipchun, and is believed to bring luck and health to those who write it. The students put their ipchunchuk, which was a message, given to them by their calligra
Dong-san Medical Center set up the Health Donation Stairs which has responsibility for customer health and donations. It is the one of the donation projects in social community. Above all, using the stairs automatically raises 10 won per person. The donation will be used at the end of the year for low-income families at the hospital and medical expenses project. Dong-san Medical Center encourages people to use them by designing the walls related to health information. There are several medical institutions with the Health Donation Stairs, however, Dong-san Medical Center is the only one in Dae
The ' Hwagyeae' exhibition, which means peaceful in Korean, is being held at the Daegu branch of Lotte Gallery, where graduates of art colleges in Daegu. Hwagyeae started in 2017 and the exhibition was organized by Lotte Gallery's Daegu branch to provide opportunities for art college graduates in Daegu and support creative activities. This year's subtitle is 'A leap forward.' Even after graduation, each student was encouraged to become an active artist both at home and abroad.You can see various works such as painting, sculpture, installation, and photography. The exhibition consists of one a
Author: Michelle Obama Genre: Memoir Published in November 2018 Lenghth: 448 pages Becoming is the latest book by Michelle Obama, the wife of 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. To some people she might be seen as just the wife of a former president, but she was chosen as the most admired woman in the U.S. by GALLUP poll, in 2018. This means that Michelle Obama has recently made an impression on many people in the U.S. Becoming tells the story of Michelle Obama. She first starts the story with how she became herself, a student who strove to be smart and independent and wanted t
From November 30 to December 1, 2018, the Group of Twenty (G20) summit was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was the 13th meeting of the G20 and the main agenda items were about trade, refugees, immigration, environment and climate change. The most important issues were about environment and trade. Through the summit, 19 countries, except the United States of America reconfirmed their participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change. All leaders agreed that the recent trade conflicts have negative effects and settled the need of reforming the WTO (World Trade Organization). Despite t
These days, many people travel around the world. Some of them write about their experiences while traveling. These books sometimes give other people hope or confidence to travel. Because of that, travel writers are getting attention. They usually write journal or articles in various field related to traveling like short local trips, destination trips and side trips. To introduce this job, the writer Jang Yeong-eun participated in an interview. Introduction of the writer, Jang Yeong-eun Hello, my name is Jang Yeong-eun. I am the author of the book When you need a comma in your life. The conten
Shin Il-hi, the president of Keimyung University, was appointed as an honorary member of the Uzbekistan National Institute of the Arts during his visit to Uzbekistan in December. He was highly praised for his active support in arts and cultural exchanges between the two countries. Despite a strict review, the appointment of President Shin as an honorary member was unanimously agreed upon by the judges though it is particularly unusual to appoint a foreigner as an honorary member. At the ceremony, President Shin said that by emulating the pace of the opening of overseas higher education, he wil
Academia Koreana, a section of the Arts and Humanities Research Institute of Keimyung University held an academic conference on January 25 under the theme of the ‘Value and use of the old book in Joseon period.’ Currently, Dongsan Library’s advisory office has a total of 76,000 books of ancient manuscripts, includingmany which are considered national cultural assets. Among them, the conference discussed the value and use of the history Korean of the Korean language found in the volumes ‘Yuneum’ and ‘Samkanghaengsildo.’ In particular, the book titled “Yuneum’ describes in detail the nature of Y
On December 11, 2018, Kim Yong gyun was working at the Taean thermal power plant when he died unfortunately while checking a conveyor belt. When the details of this incident became known, people were not only sad but also outraged by the irresponsible behavior of the power plant. The labor union pointed out the dangerous work environment and asked the company to have workers work in pairs, but the power plant did not implement it because of manpower problems caused by restructuring. The power plant even called the maintenance company before reporting the incident to the police. Even though th
Chapel refers to a church or a chapel attached to a large church, school, hospital, or private mansion and refers to the attendance of a service or service held at a university. In other words, it refers to the worship required by a mission school or a seminary to honor students. There is also a mix of traditional craftsmanship and worship services. In this way, there are many pros and cons in that each school learns its own religion through chapel or Christian classes. Pros Even if you don't have a particular religion, all schools founded by religious organizations are called religious school