The “Keimyung University Times(Korean newspaper),” the “Keimyung Gazette,” and the Keimyung Broadcasting System are providing an online portal service, gokmu, the first among domestic universities to offer real time news. As of August 30, students and overseas people can see the “Keimyung University Times,” the “Keimyung Gazette,” and the Keimyung Broadcasting System through one site, www.gokmu.com. The main functions of gokmu are to offer the contents of the three media on the same page and to help netizens to search other news media. By clicking the top three icons of the gokmu site, netizen
The first Keimyung International Summer Academy for Korean Studies (KISAKS) was held from July 3 to August 11. It provided Korean studies programs for foreign and domestic students during summer vacation. Its programs can be accepted as credits after students ask a director in their university in advance whether the college can formally admit KISAKS credits. KISAKS had eight lectures concerning Korea: Korean History (Prof. Sem Vermeesch), Korean Economy (Prof. Leonid Petrov), Korean Language Ⅰ (Prof. Lee Hye-young), Korean Language Ⅱ (Prof. Kim Sung-su), Politics in South and North Korea (Prof
From August 8 to 14, Keimyung University and Daegu held the third Daegu International Youth Festival, which is offered annually to university students in the sister cities of Daegu in China, Vietnam, and Japan. It gave 75 attendees and 63 Korean volunteers a chance to exchange their own traditions by learning Chinese folk songs, Japanese traditional dances, and Vietnamese traditional games. Keimyung University was a sponsor of this event. It worked on scheduling programs such as taekwondo, Korean dance, and samulnori, and performed these in Seongseo campus. 11 Keimyung University students and
Dalseo Healthy Family Support Center (DHFC) in Keimyung University held a Korean course for married foreign women who are immigrants from June 20 to August 11. For the 8 weeks, the Korean course was offered two days a week in the afternoon from 2 to 4 in Rm. 115 of the College of Natural Sciences. On Tuesdays, a Korean lecturer, Jeong Su-jin, taught Korean grammar and writing to 25 foreign migrant women. Several volunteers, who were students of Keimyung University, helped them to understand the Korean class. The second class on Friday had time for reviewing what participants learned in the las