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Held admission ceremony and various welcome events for 5,000 YU freshmen in Gyeongsan Gymnasium on the 28th Congratulatory video messages by Assembly Member JU Ho-young and national soccer player SON Jun-ho, etc. Enhancement of expectations for campus life and inspiration of new students to feel the sense of belonging to and love of their school [February 28, 2023] <YU’s 2023 admission ceremony (Gyeongsan Gymnasium)> At 2:00 pm on February 28th, about 5,000 Class 2023 freshmen gathered at the campus of YU (President CHOI Oe-chool). YU held admission ceremony and congratulatory events for 2023 freshmen. The YU freshmen gathered in groups, took buses prepared by the university, and moved to the Gyeongsan Gymnasium where the admission ceremony was held. The off-line entrance ceremony was held after a long time and the Gyeongsan Gymnasium was fulfilled with the heat of a festival. In the pre-ceremony events started at 2:30 pm before the official admission ceremony, YU freshmen opened the gate of the admission ceremony with vocal music and by learning school song with seniors. Before starting the admission ceremony, Senior Vice Chairman KIM Gwan-yong of the Advisory Council for Democratic and Peaceful Unification, Assembly Member JU Ho-young, Governor LEE Cheol-woo of Gyeongsangbuk-do, Mayor JO Hyeon-il of Gyeongsan-si, and national soccer player SON Jun-ho, etc. from all walks of life in Korea sent congratulatory videos and telegrams and received ovations. <Freshmen are learning school song in YU’s 2023 Freshman Admission Ceremony> In the admission ceremony, Chairman HAN Jae-sook of Yeongnam School Corporation, President CHOI Oe-chool of YU, and major staff of the university participated with more than 5,000 YU freshmen and congratulated them. At 3:00 pm, about 5,000 YU freshmen started their first official event with declaration of admission permission by President CHOI Oe-chool of YU and oath of admission by the representatives of freshmen. <Representatives of freshmen swear an oath of admission in front of President CHOI Oe-chool (Left)> Chairman HAN Jae-sook said in her encouragement words, “I welcome the freshmen along with all the Cheonma Family Members of Yeongnam School Corporation. YU has fostered over 250,000 national revivalists under the founding spirit of its founder, former President PARK Chung-hee. I hope that freshmen will continue their status and reputation as a prestigious private school. Today, the freshmen stood at a new starting point to devote themselves to greater studies. I hope you all have big dreams and hopes and great aspirations to become global leaders in your respective fields.” President CHOI Oe-chool said in his welcome words, “I welcome the freshmen for becoming the proud Cheonma Family Members. We are living with recent rapid changes in scientific technology and social culture. Capabilities and expertise that are quite different from previous ones are asked by society. The endeavors for creativity, ethics, critical thinking, sharing, and service will become your competitiveness. Only prepared young people will have future opportunities. YU will provide education to cultivate talents who will lead advanced Korea to a dignified society and to contribute in common prosperity of mankind. You freshmen at this place today will become the protagonists.” YU held a welcome party for the freshmen as the second part of the event. Starting with the relay congratulatory videos of students and staff produced by the students of UBS, YU education broadcasting, various events including vision performances containing the developmental direction and educational philosophy of YU and congratulatory performances prepared by college students welcomed the freshmen. Hip-hop singers Youngji and HAN Yohan stepped up to the final stage of welcome party and received a great response from the freshmen. KIM Seo-yeon (1st Grade of Department of Computer Engineering) swore the admission oath and said, “It’s very meaningful for me to swear the admission oath as the representative of the freshmen in the admission ceremony of the university. I expect the campus life as such many seniors and professors prepared diverse events and welcome us. I’d like to enjoy my campus life with the sense of belonging to and love of the school as a student of YU.”
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8,934 books of Professor Yoshida Yutaka, a Japanese eminent historian Documents on modern and contemporary political history and military relations in Japan … High value of research materials on modern history of Korea and East Asia Acquisition by Seokoh Cultural Foundation and donation to YU Library for historical development between Korea and Japan [February 17, 2023] <Catalog of “Yoshida Yutaka/Seokoh Library” of YU Library> Central Library of YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) published the catalog of “Yoshida Yutaka/Seokoh Library” possessed by Honorary Professor Yoshida Yutaka (Hitotsubashi University), a famous Japanese historian. “Yoshida Yutaka/Seokoh Library” consists of the documents on modern and contemporary political history and military relations in Japan collected by Professor Yoshida for more than 40 years and is evaluated as valuable data for the research and development of modern history in Korea and East Asia. Especially, it contains many materials with high historical value, such as diaries and experiences of former Japanese soldiers, and photographic materials. Seokoh Cultural Foundation (Chairman YOON Dong-han) acquired the books of Professor Yoshida and donated them to YU Library in 2020 to support relational and historical development between Korea and Japan. YU Central Library named them “Yoshida Yutaka/Seokoh Library” in honor of the will of Professor Yoshida and Seokoh Cultural Foundation and designated as a library in a separate space in the library. <Yoshida Yutaka/Seokoh Library> YU Central Library published a catalog of 8,934 books through preparations for three years for good utilization of historically highly valuable books. The catalog states bibliographic items of the books in full in the order of signatures and indexes of authors are attached for easy searching by researchers. Also, the books may be searched and the list may be found online through the cyber donation book DB of the library’s website. Seokoh Cultural Foundation expressed its expectation that the catalog becomes the motive to inform modern and contemporary Japanese history and military history, to set history right, and to encourage many studies. YU Central Library intends to distribute Yoshida Yutaka/Seokoh Library free of charge to domestic-related agencies and to hold a special lecture on historical studies on Korea-Japan relations with an invitation of Professor Yoshida in around May 2023.
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A Danish public university founded in 1479… An agreement on student exchange with a world-level leading university Dispatch of three exchange students selected every year for enhancement of language & global capability Expansion of global exchange by concluding an agreement with a leading Italian university in the first half [February 9, 2023] <School Symbols of YU and University of Copenhagen> A way is opened for YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) students to study at University of Copenhagen, a leading European university in Denmark. YU concluded an agreement on exchange of students and professors with University of Copenhagen on February 6th.University of Copenhagen is a public university in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and is a world-level leading university that ranked 79th in 2022 university evaluation by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) of GB that is a world-level university evaluation agency. The university was founded in 1479 by a papal edict and is the second-oldest university next to Uppsala University (1477) in Sweden in the North European area. <Scene of University of Copenhagen, Denmark> According to the concluded agreement, each of the two universities will select and dispatch three exchange students every year.Dispatched students are exempted from payment of tuition in the university they are dispatched to if they pay tuition to the original university. YU decided to subsidize the tuition fees of Korean Language Education Center for the students of University of Copenhagen coming to YU. YU’s student exchange program is an overseas dispatch program for students to complete regular classes after being dispatched to foreign sister universities for one semester or one year and is highly appreciated by students. Students may have the opportunities to enhance their language and global capability by studying at foreign leading universities. YU intends to expand exchange with European leading universities with conclusion of an agreement with University of Copenhagen.YU intends to conclude a student exchange agreement with Ca'Foscari University of Venice, a public university in Venice, Italy, in the first half and has a discussion on an exchange agreement with University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy. Director YOE Taek-dong of YU Internal Bureau said, “YU is now expanding global education & research network with exchange agreements with 500 universities and organizations in 59 countries. YU is a real global campus where foreigner students from the whole world study. I hope YU students to enhance their capability through various exchange activities with foreign students studying at YU as well as the overseas dispatch program.”
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Students of Department of Sociology deduced regional vitalization plans through field-focused classes. Sharing teaching methods and outcomes with professors and students of Ho Chi Minh University of Economics, Vietnam [February 16, 2023] <Students of Department of Sociology visited Ho Chi Minh University of Economics, Vietnam and shared outcomes of Global Capstone Design class> “Global Capstone Design” launched by YU Department of Sociology is attracting attention as a college innovation class. Global Capstone Design is a class for colleges to strengthen Industry-academy-research cooperation in order to generate corporate value, support employment & startup, and construct sharing/cooperation systems and is implemented as “3rd Leaders in Industry-university Cooperation (LINC 3.0).” of the Ministry of Education. The subject of Global Capstone Design class of YU Department of Sociology was “Seeking for a vitalization plan for Cheongdo and Gunwi in crisis of local extinction.”The students of the class were divided into four teams for Cheongdo and four teams for Gunwi and sought for problems through field survey and suggested a local vitalization plan in consideration of probability and effect of the achievement. The students suggested various ideas such as production of characters and goods using local specialties including Cheongdo persimmon, etc., PR plans for local tour of Cheongdo Eupseong and Gunwi Volcano Village, etc., production of PR videos with foreigner students, etc. Professor JEONG Yong-gyo of Department of Sociology planned Global Capstone Design class and said, “The university should provide field classes escaping from classrooms. Especially, the students majoring in sociology should grow various views to look at social phenomena. Recently, central government and local governments establish various policies and input fund in order to prevent local extinction. However, if the youth has no interest, they are merely sand castles. The students found attractive matters of Korean agricultural villages and suggested local vitalization plans by identifying problems in agricultural areas and seeking for various solutions through the Global Capstone Design class.” During this winter vacation, the students of YU Department of Sociology visited Ho Chi Minh City College of Economics, Vietnam to share outcomes of Global Capstone Design class with foreign universities. Their purpose was to share the outcomes of Global Capstone Design class and to continue exchange between the two. YU students had the time to present outcomes of last semester’s duties and to make Q&A for the students and professors of Ho Chi Minh City College of Economics. Vice President Vo Thi Khanh Van of Ho Chi Minh City College of Economics watched the students’ presentations and said, “I think that Global Capstone Design class provided by YU Department of Sociology is an advanced class to prepare the future. I thank for sharing the excellent course and outcomes of the class. I hope both university and college to active the exchange in various areas including sociology and culture as well as education & research activities.”
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KRW 1,045 million of total project budget including national fund for a year … Cultivation of professional manpower of SW & content areas Management by Department of Computer Engineering, operation of development & specialization programs for big data analysis and application SW using AI Benefits such as scholarship, internship, and company employment for the persons who completed the curriculum [February 17, 2023] YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) was selected as the university to manage “Venture Startup Academy” project of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. “Venture Startup Academy” is a policy project to cultivate manpower of SW & content areas to lead venture enterprises. The purpose of the program is to cultivate talents to be directly input into the field of enterprises through project-based training courses. The government adopted it last year in order to solve manpower shortage for SM and startup enterprises More than 2,200 professional talents were cultivated until last year and the same level programs are run by ten universities in metropolitan areas and nine universities in non-metropolitan areas. YU will implement this project through a consortium with Daegu Catholic University until January, 2004. The scale of the total budget of the project is KRW 1,045 million including KRW 950 million of support by national fund. YU has a plan to organize Venture Startup Academy Project Team (GM, Professor YOON Jong-hee) focused on the Department of Computer Engineering and to operate “development & specialization programs for big data analysis and application SW using AI.” The plan is to strengthen industry-academy cooperation with enterprises through collaboration with MAINBiz and to cultivate professional SW talents equipped with practical capability and creativity. For this, YU Department of Computer Engineering plans to open 29 SW classes with Software Convergence College of Daegu Catholic University. The academic course is completed with acquisition of 15 or more credits and the students who completed the course will receive such benefits as KRW 4 million of scholarship, internship, and company employment connection. Dean YOON Jong-hee of YU Department of Computer Engineering manages the project and said, “I plan to cultivate practical SW professionals for advancement of local industries by cultivating core manpower of AI/SW through this project. I expect that the foundation to develop local industries and strengthen competitiveness will be provided through organic collaboration between universities and enterprises.”
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Contribution to improvement of service of Daegu Urban Railway and customer service Idea adopted for improvement of Daegu Subway’s customer service in Business Practice Case Contest [February 1, 2023] <Students and Professor HEO Yong-seok of YU Business School who received award citation of Daegu Transportation Corporation> The students of YU Business School received the award citation of Daegu Transportation Corporation.The received the citation due to contribution to improvement of service of Daegu Subway and customer service. The students of YU Business School held “1st Business Practice Case Contest of YU Department of Business Administration” last year in order to enhance the capability of students for business practice. The contest was held with the subject of “Plan to improve Daegu Subway’s service based on customers’ viewpoints” and 27 teams (126 persons) filed online applications; creative customer service improvement ideas were shown by the students for users of Daegu Subway. Professor LEE Yoon-jae (Dean of YU Business Administration) and Professor HEO Yong-seok (chief professor of the contest) managed the contest, professors of Department of Business Administration such as KIM Jeong-gun, PARK Tae-gyeong, YOON Jeong-hyeon, KIM Jeong-moo, and KIM Hyeong-joon took team teaching advisors, and Customer Communication Department of Daegu Transportation Corporation reviewed the ideas of students jointly with the professors of Department of Business Administration. Team H consisting of students HWANG Ju-hyeon, JEONG Hye-min, KIM Ji-hyeon, KIM Na-yeong, PARK Hyo-jin, and JEONG Daeun received grand prize and Team C consisting of students LEE Ji-min, PARK Gyeong-min, LEE Mi-hyeon, PARK Hyeon-jin, and KIM Yeon-seo received excellence award. Team H and Team C received award citations of Daegu Transportation Corporation with acceptance of the creative ideas for customer service improvement, i.e. “Creative strategic plan to reduce customers’ inconvenience” and “Vacancy zone to decrease inconvenience and increase happiness,” respectively.Daegu Transportation Corporation intends to apply the ideas of Team H and Team C for service improvement for customers of Daegu Subway to the practice. Professor HEO Yong-seok of YU Department of Business Administration managed the contest and said, “The award citations are highly meaningful cases because creative ideas of the students of YU Business School did not remain in the classrooms but were accepted for excellence at business practice level and will be actually applied for service improvement for Daegu Subway users and may be evaluated as excellence cases of win-win industry-academy cooperation for local development.”
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Dispatch of overseas volunteer team at start of new year - in connection with sister colleges and NGOs, etc. of Cambodia Construction of Global ESG 5-Year Project System for education & environment, agricultural development, and health & medicine, etc. [January 30, 2023] <YU’s overseas volunteer team students help Cambodian Kampong Cham orphans to make their own eco bags> YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) started global social contribution activities with start of 2023. With beginning of Post COVID-19 times, YU accelerates achievement of an educational goal to practice ESG (Environment, Society, and Governance) management as a higher education institution and to cultivate talents for contribution to common prosperity of human societies. YU Social Contribution Group organized an overseas volunteer team consisting of students and staff and dispatched 44 volunteers in January divided into two times. Each group of the volunteer team made service activities in Phnom Penh and Kampong Cham, etc. in Cambodia for two weeks, respectively. The student volunteer team visited local orphanages, high schools, and universities, etc. made service activities, joined traditional plays and performances with local students and residents, and made cultural exchange activities. YU Overseas Volunteer Group students visited orphanages and made arts and physical education services and cultural exchange activities including eco bag decoration, soap production, soccer, and traditional plays, etc. Also, students visited a high school in Speu Commune, provided the students with computer education, and made educational environment improvement activities including repair and painting of outer walls of school buildings. <YU Overseas Volunteer Group students are painting old outer walls of Speu Commune High School.> Especially, YU donated 50 sets of computers and monitors, more than 500 Korean/English books, and more than 500 pieces of clothes through these volunteer activities. For this donation, YU made agreements with local organizations including Western University and Cambodia Development Center and operated material supply and volunteer activity programs. The programs operated with the students of Western University were also highly appreciated by local citizens. They made local purification campaign activities for village streets and riversides and cultural exchange activities with the students of main campus and branch campus of Western University in Phnom Penh and Kampong Cham. <YU Overseas Volunteer Group students are teaching local students how to use the computers donated to Speu Commune High School.> BAE Min-seong (3rd grade of Department of Saemaul International Development), the leader of the First dispatch Team, expressed his feeling by saying, “I have participated in overseas volunteer activities through the programs if possible. It would be meaningful to participate in volunteer activities but I felt that I was growing with stepwise systemization and expansion of my view on the world through volunteer activities many times. I’d like to participate in overseas volunteer activities continuously after graduation, too, if possible.” In addition, YU dispatched two teams to implement an agricultural development project and an educational facility improvement project for five years in Speu Commune and a medical volunteer team of YU Medical Center, independently from aforesaid student volunteer team. The purpose was to overcome the limitations of one-time overseas volunteer activities and to make practical contribution to improvement of living quality of Cambodian local residents. Therefore, YU intends to dispatch overseas volunteer teams and project teams to same areas for five years from now on. Meanwhile, YU Overseas Volunteer Group students visited Korean organizations and enterprises working on the global stage such as Phnom Penh office of KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency) and Phnom Penh Branch Office of Daegu Bank. They had a roundtable meeting with YU alumni working in local corporation of Daegu Bank.
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Class '73 of YU Department of Architectural Engineering, acceptance of contribution to development of Korean education Donation of USD 4 million for establishment of Wolsan Scholarship Society to show “A heart to repay the kindness of parents” Foundation of Active U.S.A Inc. in LA apparel fashion industry … Creation of a Korean immigrant success story [February 03, 2023] <Chairperson LEE Don of Active U.S.A. received Dongbaek Medal, a national medal of merit.> [From the 5th position in the left of lower row, Chairperson HAN Jae-sook of Yeongnam School Corporation, Mrs. YOO Bok-kyung (Spouse of Chairperson HAN Jae-sook), Chairperson LEE Don, and President CHOI Oe-chool of YU] Chairperson LEE Don of Active U.S.A. had the honor of receiving Dongbaek Medal, a national medal of merit. National medal of merits are given to the persons who have clearly contributed in people’s welfare improvement and national development by making contributions in politics, economy, society, education, and academic fields of Korea. Chairperson LEE (Class '73 of YU Department of Architectural Engineering) was accepted for his contribution to higher education development in Korea.Chairperson LEE has been supporting students with foundation of Wolsan Scholarship Society after donating scholarship funds to YU, his alma mater, in 2012 in order to repay the kindness of his father who passed in July 2011, and his mother. The scholarship fund donated from 2012 until now reaches USD 4 million. This is the largest scale among individual scholarships operated by YU. Especially, among his donations, donation of USD 2 million in January was surprising because such a donation was done on the line on his way to return to the USA after visiting Korea. At that time, Chairperson LEE Don called on President CHOI on the way home after visiting his mother in Korea for year-end and new-year and donated the development fund saying his intention to support development of his alma mater that was changing since President CHOI took office. The students of Wolsan Scholarship Society are active in all walks of life, including lawyers, prosecutors, certified public accountants, architects, and teachers. Chairperson LEE has been continuously making donations for Wolsan Scholarship Society, university development fund, and Alumni Association Scholarship Fund and has been making large contributions in the university and the alumni association. “Wolsan Scholarship Society” is a joint scholarship society named with the nickname of Sir Wolsan LEE Dong-ho and his mother Ms LEE Hong-sik. Sir Wolsan LEE Dong-ho Lee (1923-2011) is a 15th generation descendant of Sir Hoejae LEE Eon-jeok (1491-1553) who was one of Dongbang Ohyeon in Joseon Dynasty and has Chairperson LEE (eldest son, LEE Seung-yeon, LEE Jeong-hyeon, and LEE Hyeong (Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center Head of Business Strategy Department). Sir LEE Dong-ho was the owner of Daeseonghyeon, Cultural Heritage 34 of Gyeongsangbuk-do in Yangdong Village listed as a world cultural heritage in UNESCO, and Chairperson LEE has been leading preservation of cultural heritage by such method as restoration of 300-year traditional houses through historical research for 3 years with Gyeongsangbuk-do together. Chairperson LEE is a successful businessman who went to the USA in 1986 and founded Active U.S.A. Inc. in the next year. He is a bootstrapper who experienced difficulty to lose whole properties due to LA Riot occurring in 1992 but succeeded in comeback based on his accumulated credibility and excellent leadership. Now, he is taking Director of Pacific Bank (a Koreans’ bank in the USA), Leading CEO of The World Korean Business Convention, Director of Sir Hoejae LEE Eon-jeok Commemorative Association, Advisor of Gyeongsangbuk-do Overseas Counseling, and Chairperson of Chairperson of California Daegu/Gyeongbuk Homecoming Association Scholarship Committee, etc. He continued donation activities in spite of residing abroad and was selected as “No. 3 Honor Society” of “Social Welfare Funding Society” for “Fruit of Love.” Also, he leads global capability enhancement of university students in Daegu/Gyeongbuk areas as an overseas advisor for Gyeongsangbuk-do. Until now, he has been supporting enhancement of practical capability by inviting more than 100 university students as intern employees of Active U.S.A. Chairperson LEE also led foundation of YU USA Alumni Association which was founded for the first time for the universities in the south of Hangang River. At that time, Chairperson LEE took the chairperson of preparation committee and persuaded and encouraged alumni visiting main cities in the USA. Chairperson LEE served as the first Chairperson of LA General Alumni Association and then USA General Alumni Association.YU gave Proud YU Prize in 2006 and Honor Doctor of Business Administration in 2014 to praise his contributions. YU had a ceremony to give a medal to Chairperson LEE Don at 11:00 am on the 2nd of February. In the ceremony, Chairperson HAN Jae-sook of Yeongnam School Corporation, Chairperson HAN Jae-sook of Yeongnam School Corporation, Former President LEE Hyo-soo, and Senior Vice President PARK Dong-soo of YU General Alumni Association. Especially, the students of Wolsan Scholarship Society attended the ceremony and congratulated Chairperson LEE for receiving the medal expressing their thanks. In the ceremony, Chairperson LEE received the medal and the certificate and said, “I think I am here today based on what I have received from my motherland Korea and my alma master YU. I practiced a small sharing activity only with the mind to repay the society for what I have received until now as an overseas Korean and it’s a great honor to receive the medal from the country. I will try to play a role to contribute in national development as a businessman.” President CHOI Oe-chool of YU transmitted the medal to Chairperson LEE and said, “The sharing and social contribution activities practiced by Chairperson LEE became the motive power for Korea to become an advanced country and for alma master YU for development. I think that the Chairperson’s sublime meaning of sharing is same with the educational goal and meaning of YU to cultivate talents to lead development of Korea evaluated as an advanced country and the talents to contribute in common prosperity of human society. I will do my best so that such meaning is transferred to our next generations and our society.”
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