Keimyung University’s Hengseo Museum provides a free-term system program that is connected to the history textbooks for elementary, middle and high school students. Hengseo Museum encourages students to join the program and experience history instead of just reading about it.The main program is making pottery and restoring artifacts. Also, students can enjoy the many other programs like the history of museums, making drawings of artifacts and role-playing a curator. Kim Kwon-goo, the director of Hengseo Museum, said, “We prepared the program to help students discover their aptitude and talent
The Global Innovation Challenge workshop by KMU’s Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation was held at Myunggyo Dormitory on January 29. There were a total of 13 students picked for the Global Innovation Challenge with the students divided into six teams for the workshop. The workshop topic was producing an idea for a prototype and attending a foundation lecture. On the first day, they created a new idea in order to develop its design and prototype production. Then they made a business plan. On the second day, they developed branding that reflected customer opinions gained through market resea
Keimyung University helped local people in the Philippines from January 21 for 10 days. The team from Keimyung University included a professor from Fashion Design, a volunteer from Caritas, and 4 students from Fashion Design. They headed to Negros Islandin the Philippines. They taught local people how to make products and sell them.Keimyung University visited Negros Island before with 34 students from July 5 to 18, 2015. They built a new elementary school and improved the learning environment for students. This was the second visit of Keimyung University.The Fashion Design students taught loca
KMU’s Department of Textile Design Students have participated in the Heimtextil International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles for three years. This year, they participated in Heimtextil 2016 from January 12 to 15 in Frankfurt, Germany. Heimtextil is the biggest international trade fair for home and contract textiles with buyers attending from all over the world, including Europe, Asia and the United States.During this fair, textile design students exhibited their ‘Blending Age’ concept design. This highly regarded design is a creative blend of unique Asian cultural and modern sensibi
Keimyung University held a workshop to commemorate the adoption of the Ability Test Support Center in Daegu on December 23 in the Smart Venture Institute. Officials, including Ryu Seonggeol, Saenuri Party chairman, Choei Unbaek, director of Daegu’s Creative Economy Bureau, and Synn llhi, president of Keimyung University, attended the event. The event was composed of conferences that share some commonalities: necessity of consumer participation in product development and case studies of consumer participation.Through development of high-tech products, people have various IT devices now, but the
On November 27, the Keimyung Cantata Recital was held at the Keimyung Art Center. The Keimyung Cantata is a musical work created to commemorate the 115th anniversary of Keimyung University. The main pieces were composed based on Jang Ok-Kwan’s poems. Jang Ok-Kwan is a Fine Arts professor at Keimyung University. The whole recital is composed of nine different pieces performed by several talented musicians. It starts with the brass instrument ensemble and continues with the aria of the soprano, tenor, and the baritone. The recital ends with the famous and elegant Beethoven’s Symphony #9. Through
A guest lecture by Kishimi Ichiro, the author of the best seller Courage to be Disliked, was held at KMU’s College of Business Administration on November 13. The theme of the lecture was a message that he hopes to convey to young people about philosophies of life.Kishimi Ichiro believes that “We should not be afraid to be hated by others. If you are hated by someone, it is proof that you live by your own rules.” His ideas about relationships are based on the psychology of Adler. He also gave students under stress due to human relationships caused by harsh competition a variety of good advice.H
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