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The Education Development Center hosted the ‘YU Can Do Contest’ for the second semester of 2019 Shared studying knowhow through ‘Study success case portfolio’ [January 31, 2020] The YU Education Development Center (Director Kim Geun-ho) held the ‘YU Can Do Contest’ awards ceremony for the 2nd semester of the 2019 school year on the 21st. This contest invited portfolios that established study plans to improve grades for the semester and containing practices and reflections on performing systematic learning. Participating students successfully performed a total of five missions, while also improving grades significantly. The submitted works contain details on the entire process for successfully practicing studies. Portfolios submitted in the contests contain post-participation reviews of various extracurricular study activities for corrective, supplementary and expansive thinking for study diagnostics, study coaching, and study plans developed by the Education Development Center, and for the student’s own practicing of studying. The Education Development Center placed significance in this contest in that the elevation of study motivation of students, effective study management, and practical study goals contributed in improving grades. This contest was planned to improve academic performance and grades, while focusing on improving the students’ self GPA management capacities and to encourage their successful studies. The works submitted for this contest were judged based on grade improvement compared to the previous semester, devotion to the portfolio contents, and case expandability. One person won the grand prize, three won excellence awards, and five won commendation awards. Yoo Ji-hye (Department of Living Products Design freshman) won the grand prize for her outstanding portfolio and huge academic improvement. Miss Yoo actively used the time management planner and recorded and managed her projects into pre-practice and follow-up review by days. The Education Development Center is planning to offer the ‘YU Can Do“ program for the 2020 school year as well. It is also planning to submit study practice success case portfolios to carry out the ’YU Can Do Contest’ that can bring fruit to the academic efforts of the semester.
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Goal to improve self-initiated learning capacities by reading classics, debating, and writing focus education Selected four out of 100 classics selected by YU to apply in class Four professors per sector lectures through team-teaching... Operating small group system [January 17, 2020] The YU Education Innovation Center (Director Kim Byung-joo) held an outstanding essay award ceremony for the ‘Great Books, Great Thoughts’ general education class on January 7. ‘Great Books, Great Thought’ is the most famous program of the University Innovation Support Program hosted by the Ministry of Education. It began in the second semester of 2019 with the goal of improving self-initiated learning capacities through reading classics in various academic disciplines, debates, and concentrating writing education. Stronger altruistic sympathy and bold challenges ‘Great Books, Great Thoughts’ is a one-semester (15 week) education program combining reading classics, debates and writing education models for three weeks at a time in fields such as literature, humanities and arts, society, and natural science. It is comprised of small (20 people or less) groups (total 4 groups) and professors were assigned to four different fields. The participation faculty (team-teaching lectures) is in charge of operating the four sub-groups under the advisor for each sub-group. After completing the three-week classes, professors review submitted essays to give excellent essay awards to students with 4 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 4 bronze medals, and held meetings about the class with the winners. Plans are to publish a book using the essays selected as outstanding essays. The first semester of 2020 will offer ‘Great Books, Great Thoughts – Benevolence’ and in the second semester, ‘Great Books, Great Thoughts – Justice’ will be offered. ‘Great Books, Great Thoughts – Benevolence’ will be comprised of lectures by Professor Nam Jung-seop (Department of English Language and Literature) with ‘The Great Gatsby’, Professor Woo Jae-ho (Department of Chinese Language and Literature) with ‘Analects of Confucius’, Professor Kim Jung-goon (Business Administration with ‘The 4th Industrial Revolution’, and Professor Seok Ho-young (Life Science) with ‘Selfish Genes’. The class will be operated as absolute evaluation schemes. Meanwhile, the Education Innovation Center is also planning to select outstanding students among those who took two or more classes of ‘Stronger altruistic sympathy and bold challenges Great Books, Great Thoughts’ from the second semester of 2019 to the first and second semesters of this year to offer them the opportunity to an overseas humanities trip (Europe) during the 2020 winter vacation. Students who took the class for three straight semesters will be given preference when selecting participants for the overseas humanities trip.
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100% passing rate for third straight year since 2018 Received ‘2019 medical education evaluation’ certificate from the Korean Institute of Medical Education and Evaluation Recognized for outstanding education infrastructure including education process, students, professors, educational resources, college operating system, etc. [January 22, 2020] <YU College of Medicine lab work> The YU College of Medicine (Dean Yoon Sung-soo) achieved a 100% passing rate (national passing rate of 94.2%) as all of YU students who applied to the written test for the 84th National Examination for Medical Practitioners in 2020. YU recorded 100% passing rate for the third straight year following the 82nd in 2018 and 83rd examination in 2019. The 84th National Examination for Medical Practitioners written test was held from January 7 to 8 and all 65 students from the YU College of Medicine passed the test. YU College of Medicine Dean Yoon Sung-soo said, “Our university is third in the nation for SCI papers per medical school professor and we are improving in all areas with an excellent educational infrastructure such as participating in the researching medical scientist fostering project. We will continue to respond to changes of the times and work on fostering medical talents who continue to develop.” YU also recently passed the medical education evaluation certification at the ‘2019 medical education evaluation certification results’ announced by the Korean Institute of Medical Education and Evaluation and received a 4-year certification, thus recognizing the excellence of the education infrastructure including the education process, student assessments, students, professors, educational resources, educational evaluation, college operating system, administration, etc.
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College of Mechanical and IT Engineering holds ‘IoT Contest’ displaying unique ideas converged with majors Total of 23 teams participate including information communication, computer, electric and electronics, and 8 teams win YU Presidential Award Excellent creativity displayed with ‘Smart LED Mirror’, ‘Smart Tent Infrastructure Platform’, etc. [January 17, 2020] <2019 YU IoT Contest winners> The YU College of Mechanical and IT Engineering (Dean Kim Young-tak) held the IoT contest. This contest aims at heightening interest in IoT, which is one of the core technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, and to improve practical abilities in ICT. A total of 23 teams made up of students with various majors including information communication, computer, electronics, electric, mechanics and business administration participated in this contest. Creative ideas converging various majors such as smart LED mirrors, smart tent infrastructure platform, mobile air pollution measurer, etc. were displayed to attract attention of participants. <IoT work demonstration and poster presentations> The participants submitted reports, actual products and videos of demonstrations from November of last year and after the preliminaries, a total of eight teams joined the finals on January 10. At the finals, the students demonstrated their ideas in works that they produced and held poster presentations, and the top four teams received the YU Presidential Award. YU College of Mechanical and IT Engineering Dean Kim Young-tak said, “This has served as an opportunity to share the ideas of students in different majors on the field for utilizing IoT, which is a core technology of the future, and to make their own products by applying such ideas to improve their practical competencies.” He added, “I hope that they will take part in not only intramural contests, but also in various domestic and foreign contests to check their skills and improve their capacities.”
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MOU with the Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute to develop industry-academic cooperation research system customized to the Age of the Pan-Pacific Age Operate field-work course to foster experts in the Department of Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnology, and the Department of Life Sciences, etc. Improving practical competencies during undergraduate courses such as accepting credits for students who completed course Enhance satisfaction in major through field work that helps with setting career path such as employment, etc. [January 17, 2020] <The YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team signed an MOU with the Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute to foster experts in the marine bio industry> (from fifth from left to right: Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute Director Kim Tae-young, YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team Director Park Yong-wan) The YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team will kill three birds with one stone such as improving industry-academic research customized to the Pan-Pacific Age, improve capacities of majors in relevant departments, and increase student employment rates through industry-academic cooperation with the Pan-East Sea Industry Research Institute. The two institutes entered a work MOU to foster marine bio experts at the YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team office in the afternoon of the 13th. The two institutes agreed on ▲cooperating in the marine bio expert fostering project ▲accepting credits for students who completed the marine bio expert fostering project ▲interaction of professors and researchers ▲promoting exchange of information and personnel in areas where mutual cooperation is possible ▲co-hosting information exchange events such as academic conferences, training, seminar and workshops, etc., and ▲mutual cooperation for joint use of facilities between the two institutes. The YU Department of Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnology and the Department of Life Sciences had operated field work programs with the Pan-East Sea Industrial Research Institute even before entering this MOU. From 2012 to 2019, a total of 117 students completed field work and the satisfaction of participating students were very high as well. In particular, two of those students who completed the program are now employed at the Pan-East Sea Industrial Research Institute and four out of five students who completed a 24-week education course at the Pan-East Sea Industrial Research Institute last year have continued their education into graduate school. Field work at a specialized institute having close association with their major had a major impact on improving student capacities in their majors and for determining their career paths. Students who participated in field work said, “I gained higher satisfaction on my major by receiving training at a specialized institute and learning practical work. My goal of studying my major in greater depth has become clearer.” By signing this MOU, the YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team will be equipped with a cooperation system for not only the Department of Biotechnology, Department of Medical Biotechnology and the Department of Life Sciences, but also for offering field work courses linked with school credits in all departments related to life and environment. The reason for this is to enhance practical capacities in their majors during their undergraduate years so that they may find employment as soon as they graduate. Furthermore, departments that had cooperative relationships will continue to expand field work education courses with other specialized institutes. YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team Director Park Yong-wan said, “Field work at specialized institutes will not only reinforce student capacities in their majors, but also help greatly in enhancing employment rates,” while adding, “We will reinforce industry-academic cooperation with biotechnology-related companies, in addition to research institutes, so that students will be able to enhance their practical capacities needed by companies, institutes and research centers, etc. so that they may have broader employment choices.”
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Selected ‘overseas study research scholarship student’ together with the Department of Saemaul and International Development for the 2019 school year to pay scholarship funds Established in Dec 2003 centering on alumni who benefited from the ‘Saemaul scholarship’ and has been supporting studies for junior students every year Provided approximately 208 million KRW to a total of 212 students in total [January 16, 2020] The YU Saemaul Scholarship Association (Chairman Choi Wae-chul) held the 14th scholarship transfer fund at the YU Law Building on the 15th. The YU Saemaul Scholarship Association is a scholarship association that supports the academic studies of juniors mainly by alumni who benefited from the ‘Saemaul Scholarship Fund’ by the YU Department of Community Development (currently Department of Saemaul and International Development). Alumni gathered donations for the 14th time this year and gave 12 million KRW to juniors. This year’s scholarship was given to students by accepting overseas study research plans to enhance global capacities of students. The selected students submitted research plans related to the sustainable development goals (SGDs) of the international community to inspect and analyze various pending issues such as poverty and climate change, which the international community currently faces, from the perspective of ‘Saemaul studies’ and especially from the perspective of ‘Saemaul Development’. Evaluations were conducted based on appropriateness of the theme (correlation with Saemaul and International Development majors), uniqueness (creative composition and ideas), possible to realize/apply (possibility to realize the research plans and applicability to solve joint projects of the global community) by judges selected by the scholarship association. Students selected as scholarship students for the 2019 school year were the G-EOP team (Song Jung-hoon, Yoon Chae-won, Lim Joon-young, Kim Tae-gyeong) who submitted a research plan on the case of the quality of life of Thai women, the I-Yet-Ho team (Lee Seung-yoon, Jung Ye-eun, Shin Ji-ho, Lee Ye-bin) who submitted a research on the case of the role of the private sector to achieve the SDGs of Vietnam, and the Saemaul F.C team (Bang Joon-woong, Bae Min-jae, Bae In-sung, Shin Myeong-seok) who submitted a research plan on the case of new industries of Thailand. The YU Saemaul Scholarship Association has provided scholarships for not only students in the Department of Saemaul and International Development, but all students regardless of their department or course. Among the students selected for scholarships this year, one graduate school student at the Department of Saemaul and International Development and one junior in the College of Engineering Department of Computer Engineering were included, and in the past, international students from Africa and Southeast Asia, as well as a student in the School of Economics and Finance were selected for scholarships. The scholarship students participating in overseas study research activities will draft a research report after completing local studies and share the results with other students. Since its establishment in December 2003, the YU Saemaul Scholarship Association provided 208 million KRW up until this year. This scholarship ceremony was attended by Chairman Choi Wae-chul, Gyeongsan Internet Newspaper CEO Choi Sang-yong, Daegu-Gyeongbuk Co-Prosperity Committee Secretary General Ha Young-sook, Choi Young-jae Certified Public Labor Attorney Office PResident Choi Young-jae, Palgong M&C CEO Kim Jin-young, Toolis CEO Jung Jae-hoon, Kyungil University Lifelong Education Support Project Team Assistant Director Lee Gyeong-seop, Professors Kim Jung-hoon, Lee Yang-soo, Lee Jung-joo and Lee Mi-sook of the YU Department of Saemaul and International Development, Park Chung Hee Saemaul Institute researchers Hwang Seung-il and Lee Seol-gi, and other alumni and student government representatives. Chairman Choi Wae-chul (Professor at the YU Department of Saemaul and International Development, Global Saemaul Development Network (GSDN) chairman) said at this ceremony, “This year is the 10th year since offering the ‘Global Saemaul major’ as a master’s degree course at the Graduate School of Public Administration by YU back in 2010, and it is the 50th anniversary of the start of the Saemaul Undong with proclamation of President Park Chung-hee. Furthermore, the ‘Saemaul Economic Development Department’ is scheduled to be installed offered to freshmen at the Phnom Penh main campus of Western University (WU) in Cambodia and at its branch shool in Kampong Cham, following the department that was newly offered in the Philippines, making this year a very special year. This year is also the 43rd year since YU opened the Department of Community Development in 1976 and decided to operate the ‘Saemaul Scholarship Program’. Though the amount of money may be little, I hope that students will gain insight on what tasks lie ahead to solve the issue of co-prosperity for humanity and that it serves as an important opportunity so that students may take on challenges to solve problems and enhance their expertise to contribute to social development.” He closed his statement saying, “I would like to thank all the alumni who have supported YU students to become talented individuals who can contribute to the process of making society safer and happier for not only Korea, but the entire global community.”
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Over 300 students sent abroad for overseas volunteer work, foreign expositions, etc. with school funding during the winter break YU offering huge support to increase opportunities for global experiences [December 27, 2019] <38th Overseas Volunteer Corps Launching Ceremony (Dec 20, 2019)> YU students will be sent all around the world with the start of the new year in 2020 to enhance their global capacities. During this winter break, 300 YU students will be sent abroad for various school-funded programs. The ‘Overseas Volunteer Corps’ is one of the representative overseas dispatch programs of YU. Since 2001, a total of approximately 2,750 students took part in 37 sessions of the Overseas Volunteer Corps. In this year’s winter break, 54 students in the 38th Overseas Volunteer Corps will do volunteer work in Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. They held their launching ceremony at the YU College of Education auditorium at 3 p.m. on the 20th and will depart for their respective countries on January 5 and engage in volunteer work for two weeks. The volunteers will take part in volunteer work including educational activities such as art and P.E. at local elementary schools and environmental improvement such as painting wall murals. In particular, the volunteers are planning to engage in cultural exchange by teaching students Korean and how to make traditional masks. Kim Jong-ha (21, Department of Commerce and Trade, junior), the team leader for the 38th Volunteer Corps to Vietnam, said, “I applied to the overseas volunteer corps because I wanted to gain different overseas experiences and take part in meaningful activities while in college. We divided our roles into science, art, hygiene and cultural exchange and held several meanings to prepare for this carefully.” He added, “It is a short period of just two weeks, but we will do our best to help the local students and by doing so, uplift the status of Korea and our school.” The overseas exposition program, which was introduced by YU for the first time last summer break, is also gaining a lot of interest by students. In this program, students visit overseas expositions, etc. to enhance their competence in their majors and to gain a global mindset. This is a program that also improves start-up and employment capacities by investigating start-up items abroad. This winter break, a total of 54 students in 22 teams will be sent to the US, Europe, Singapore and Japan. <YU Volunteer Corps at work> The most popular program among students from the various overseas dispatch programs supported by YU is ‘Window To the World’. ‘Window To the World’ is a program where students organize teams and set their own themes to go off on a backpacking trip abroad. Selected students are given round-trip airfares by the school. Since 2002, a total of about 2,890 students visited different parts of the world, and this winter break, 120 students will make teams of 2 or 3 to travel to different parts of the world including Europe, Australia and China. 'OPP' (Outbound Pilot Program) is another proud school-funded overseas dispatch program of YU. This is a short-term language training program for students who are interested in studying abroad or becoming an exchange student at an overseas sister school. A total of 1,880 students participated in the OPP since its beginning in 2009 and this winter break, 58 students will be dispatched to Malaysia for four weeks through the OPP to improve their language skills. YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “I hope that students will use their break to improve their internationalization capacities and gain various experiences. YU will continue to provide positive support by coming up with various overseas dispatch programs so that more students will be able to step out into the bigger world and improve their global leadership.”
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Competed with 36 works such as dramas and advertisements Talked about the start of the Saemaul Undong and forest development in a video under the theme, ‘Saemaul for the Better World’ Two international student teams awarded such as the Grand Prize and Participation Prize showing high understanding of ‘Saemaul’ [December 26, 2019] International students studying at the YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (Director Kim Gi-soo) won the grand prize (above video) at the ‘Saemaul UCC Contest’. The ‘Saemaul UCC Contest’, supervised by Cheongdo-gun and hosted by the Cheongdo Foundation for Korean Spiritual Culture, is a UCC production contest to share the spirit of Saemaul and it is in its fourth year this year. This year’s theme was ‘Saemaul Spirit that Values Today and Makes Tomorrow More Abundant’. Applications were received from college students around the nation from September to December 1, and a total of 36 pieces were submitted across various genres including drama, advertisement and animation. <International students of the YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul that won the grand prize at the 4th Saemaul UCC Contest> First and second reviews were conducted based on the content and uniqueness of the work, story and editing perfection, YouTube views, etc. to select a total of 26 winning pieces. The ‘Kmang Kmang’ Team (photo above) comprised of YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul international students Cheng Mardy (25, Cambodia), Muhammad Nur Syamsi (30, Indonesia), Ngo Tien Binh (29, Vietnam), and Basukala Sandeep (28, Nepal), received the grand prize. Under the theme ‘Saemaul for the Better World’, the ‘Kmang Kmang’ team explained about Cheongdo where the Saemaul Undong first started and the start of the Saemaul Undong in the 1970s for forest development and the development of Korea in a two-minute video, receiving high scores. Cheng Mardy said, “Taking the video contents production course offered by the YU PR team was very helpful. We were able to integrate the video production and editing skills with the knowledge learned in our majors at the graduate school to share our message in a short video.” Meanwhile, the Koffie Samuel (40) and Arthur Rexford (32) team (photo on right) who are international students from Ghana studying at the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul who took part in this contest also received the Participation Prize. The two teams that were awarded were all composed of international students, but it was found that they had higher understanding on Saemaul than other participating Korean students as they are students majoring in Saemaul.
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Department of Environmental Engineering ‘Eco Challengers’ win the Campus Eco Leader ‘Grand Prize’ Micro-dust reduction PR, campus purification campaigns, environmental debates, etc. Traveled around Daegu and Busan to promote ‘eco-friendly living’ as well as online PR [January 14, 2020] <YU Department of Environmental Engineering Students who won the grand prize at the 9th Campus Eco Leader> (from left to right: Kang Gwang-gyu, Yoon Chae-jung, Kim Seung-hyeon, Park Sung-eun, Lee Changw-oo, Jang Jae-wan, Cho Yoon-hee, Kim Byung-joon) YU students won the grand prize at the ‘9th Campus Eco Leader’. The Daegu Regional Environmental Office selected and has been supporting the activities of the ‘Campus Eco Leader’ for spreading eco-friendly lifestyle movements within the college campus. The 9th Campus Leaders were selected with 91 people from 12 teams at seven universities in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk regions in 2019, and it has been engaged in approximately eight months of activities since holding their launching ceremony in May. During this period, the Eco Leaders pursued PR, campaigns and projects for reducing micro-dusts, conserving energy and resource circulation in everyday life. The ‘Eco Challengers’ team comprised of YU Departmetn of Engineering junios Kim Seung-hyeon (24), Lee Chang-woo (24), Jang Jae-wan (23), Kang Gwang-gyu (23), Cho Yoon-hee (23), Park Sung-eun (22), Kim Byung-joon (22), Cheon Min-gi (22) and Yoon Chae-jung (20) took first place and received the Minister of Environment Award. <Plastic Reduction Project (left) and Citizen Awareness Survey (right)> The Eco Challengers Team engaged in not only street PR such as quiz events on the hazards of micro-dusts and how to prevent it, as well as a variety of other participation-type programs such as environmental debates, campus purification campaigns, fire prevention projects, plastic-free challenge, and micro-dust reduction projects. Furthermore, the children’s center environment-friendly education was also carried out to enhance the environmental issue awareness of youths. They produced project and campaign contents as card news as well to engage in online PR activities via social media to maximize PR effects. Their activities were not limited to the campus. They also conducted environmental issue awareness surveys on general citizens in Daegu and Busan and decided the direction of the project for practicing eco-friendly lifestyles. They carried out their campaign by going to the YU Central Library that many students visit and Dongseong-ro of Daegu with a large floating population. The Eco Challengers team said, “We held environmental debates to form consensus on environmental issues with other students, while also visiting expert agencies to talk about the status, issues and response measures for micro-plastics and held interviews with experts and met with fishers. We also made and installed pickets with the message of preventing forest fires at the Biseulsan (Mt.) hiking trail and also took part in other activities to gather materials and pursue the project.” They added, “We reflected trends on environmental issues for each project and we were recognized four expertise, thus making it possible to receive good evaluations.” Team Leader Park Sung-eun of the Eco Challengers Team said, “As a student majoring in environmental engineering, I believe that it is possible to play the role of a middle-man between the general public and experts.” She added, “I will continue to stay interested in environmental issues and continue activities as an Eco Leader to help more people gain awareness on such issues and participate in environmental preservation activities in everyday life.”
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2020 YU New Year’s Kick-off Meeting held while enjoying a recital by students of the College of Music 2019 Year-end Meeting finished with the ‘Year-End Recital’ receiving huge responses [January 2, 2020] YU (President Sur Gil-soo) College of Music students held a small recital to sound off the new year. This was a unique kick-off meeting of YU held on the 2nd. At the ‘2020 YU Kick-off Meeting’ held at the YU Cheonma Art Center at 10 a.m. on the 2nd, over 200 professors and employees including YU President Sur Gil-soo attended to enjoy the performance and start the first work-day of the new year. YU College of Music students held an orchestra performance for this recital. The short performance before, during and after the kick-off meeting softened the stiff mood of kick-off meetings making it more comfortable. They performed movie OSTs such as Titanic, Lion King and Scent of a Woman, as well as classical music to help the faculty start their first day of 2020 pleasantly. YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “We started this new year kick-off ceremony with a small recital with the hope that this warm gift by students will be able to breathe in energy to the professors and employees for the new year.” He added, “I hope that like this beautiful performance of orchestral harmony, faculty, students and all YU members will work hard this year for the development of our school.” Meanwhile, YU also ended the year with the Year-end Recital in 2019, which was received with huge praise from members of YU. The year-end recital was joined by vocalists representing Korea in the global stage, YU professors, musical actors and jazz vocalists, with popular alumni putting on performances of various genres on stage.
