A whirling dervish performance and Sufism workshop was held on November 11 at KMU Haedam Concert Hall. Gyeongsangbuk-do province and KMU Center for Silk Road and Central Asia jointly hosted the workshop to introduce Sufism (mystical thought of Islam). The event comprised a special lecture and a sema performance by a Turkish whirling dervish (semazen) dance team. The performance consisted of a recitation of a tradition poem, playing a ney (bamboo pipe from the Middle East) and a saz (stringed instrument), and Sufi dance. The Sufi dance was the highlight of the performance. The dancers wearing l
The Dongsan Hospital medical service team provided medical services for 10 days in Nepal’s small country villages Pulbari and Rum returned to Korea on November 7. The team consisted of 24 people in various medical areas including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, religious support people and nursing students. They carried out a plan to help 1,000 Nepalese people who hadn’t received medical treatment. They not only gave treatment consultations, but also performed some procedures like esophagogastroscopy, otitis media surgery and strabotomy. The medical service volunteers also prepar
Editor: Jung Jae-sukGenre: poetryPublished: 2015Length: 244pages A new book,The Line of a Poem to Move Me is a series of poems published in a section of the Joong Ang Ilbo newspaper’s opinion page called Poem in Morning starting in 2014. This book is a collection of 55 people’s poems that they wanted to share with readers again. The contributors to this book are people who have had difficult and lonely days, but didn’t give up writing poems. This book includes poems that encouraged authors when they had trouble. This book’s poems tell readers to live a life without regrets, to throw yourself w
Director: Jon Favreau Genre: Comedy Starring: Jon Favreau Running time:114 minThis year’s popular trends are probably chefs and cooking. There are a lot of star chefs and up-and-coming chefs in the spotlight, appearing on several cooking shows, TV dramas, movies and commercials. Because of that, I want to introduce the American movie Chef. Jon Favreau, who directed Iron Man and Iron Man 2, directs this movie and plays the main character Carl Casper who is the chef of a first-class restaurant. Unfortunately he is so preoccupied with work he got divorced and has a bad relationship with his son.
KMU’s Dongsan Library has been helping small libraries in substandard conditions for 5 years. Since 2011, Dong san Library has supported 45 libraries in Daegu and 47 libraries in Gyeong buk through various activities. The volunteer activities consist of reading education, data rearrangement, space organization, interior design and environmental improvement. These activities are greatly appreciated by the local community and library users. KMU Dong san Library volunteer work teams consist of five teams with 60 people total, including librarians and students. Currently, the teams are supporting
Melon-shaped celadon porcelain Currency of the Jo-seon Dynasty Jo-seon white porcelain Pots and collet feet
Kim Dong-hwi (Department of Education) was selected for the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) by the U.S. State Department. This program provides part of the expenses such as tuition, airfare, living expenses, and medical insurance to selected students from around the world with ECA (Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs) support. Selected students spend one semester or one year as an exchange student in an American university. This time, they selected four students from 500 applicants across Korea. The selected students will be assigned universities by the U.S. State Departme
Keimyung University signed an agreement with the Korea Trade Association to train global economy trade experts. Vice Chancellor of Teaching and Learning Lee Jung-hui and Trade Association Executive Director Lee Jae-chul visited Keimyung University’s Sung Seo Campus for the signing.Officials signed the agreement for training FTA experts to help solve the human resource shortage in the trade industry. Both organizations developed the FTA Characterization Curriculum and Non-subject Curriculum, as well as an E-learning system. Also they cooperated in FTA Characterization Training and Domestic and