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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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CHOI Ji-woong and SEONG Min-gyu, classmates of the department, acceptance of the potential of scientists Development of a startup item with unique ideas, preparation of about KRW 270 million of business fund including government subsidy Robot scientists concentrated in development of “smart crutches” … “We will conduct researches to help society and to be shared.” [January 17, 2023] <CHOI Ji-woong (left) and SEONG Min-gyu (right) from YU Department of Robotics Engineering selected as Presidential Science Scholarship Students> YU Department of Robotics Engineering produced two Presidential Science Scholarship Students. Presidential Science Scholarship Students is a system to excavate excellent students in science and technology area and to support them with scholarship so that they grow to be future scientists. Since 2003, about 150 domestic and foreign science and engineering university students have been selected every year in the first and third grades of undergraduate studies. Up to now, more than 2,800 scholarship students were produced. Scholarship students are selected based on their academic performances, personality/aptitude, social responsibility, and scientific debating ability, etc. and the selected scholarship students receive full tuition and KRW 2.5 million of learning support money every semester until graduation. Considering that scholarship students are selected from all students at domestic and foreign universities, it is unusual that a department of a university produced two students. It means that their potential was recognized as scientists to lead Korea to that extent. The heroes of the honor are CHOI Ji-woong and SEONG Min-gyu from YU Department of Robotics Engineering. They are the classmates of a same department and entered in YU Department of Robotics Engineering in 2018. CHOI Ji-woong is an engineering talent who has entrepreneurship for R&D of startup items with a unique ideas. He has been working for Entrepreneurship Project Team (startup group) of YU LINC3.0 Project Team Startup Education Center and served as the 10th representative. The representative item is “Pooping Hero” which is a pet bowel pad made of scraps of masks. With the item, he won 15 support projects and contents including pre-startup package of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and prepared KRW 269 million of business fund last year. The marketability was also verified with KRW 5 million of sales for two weeks in cloud funding platform WADIZ. This year, he plans to expand the business by obtaining sales routes and strengthening PR, marketing, and branding, etc. CHOI Ji-woong developed “Feature point-based drowsiness detection system” based on his major as an engineer. With this system, he received Grand Prize in “2021 SW OPENBANK Project.” Many graduate students participated in the contest at that time but he won the first place with recognition of excellence of his idea and his research power. CHOI Ji-woong said, “I will develop AI behavior analysis solutions to be used in various areas including national defense, security, leisure, and medicine, etc. by analyzing human behaviors. I am accumulating research performances and know-how on sleepiness. I’d like to conduct in-depth researches on related academic areas including computer vision, video processing, and control after entering into the graduate school.” SEONG Min-gyu is a robotic engineer to dream wearable robots for the disabled.He is an undergraduate research student of Human Robot Convergence Lab (HRC Lab, Tutor CHOI Jeong-soo) of YU. He is developing “Smart crutches” to help the disabled for walking with free hands by guaranteeing users’ convenience and safety, in order to manufacture wearable robots for the disabled. SEONG Min-gyu said, “I am concentrating on R&D of 'dynamic force measuring device' in order to know the force by wearing the information on current physical movement only. As the information on various motions which could not be measured in past may be measured, there is the advantage that users’ intentions may be identified and information may be analyzed in order to be used for diverse purposes. I am pleased to be recognized of the potential of my research with selection for Presidential Science Scholarship Students. I’d like to make R&D activities to help our society and to be shared by us through in-depth researches after entering into the university.” Meanwhile, the students selected for Presidential Science Scholarship Students participated in “Talk with future scientists” held in Blue House Guesthouse on the 22nd December and received scholarship certificates and medals.
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100 persons from 12 universities completed on/off-line training and enhanced theoretical/practical capability for autonomous driving. A part of Local Government & University Cooperation Based Regional Innovation Project (RIS) [February 07, 2023] Students from 12 universities in Daegu/Gyeongbuk areas including YU and Kyungpook National University gathered to perform model electric vehicle autonomous driving missions. YU’s Future Car Conversion Component Project Team held “1st university students’ model electric vehicle autonomous driving contest.” The contest was provided for local university students to get professional knowledge and strengthen practical capability through short-term concentrated training and contest on autonomous driving that is the core technology in the 4th industrial revolution era. The contest is a part of Local Government & University Cooperation Based Regional Innovation Project (Regional Innovation System, hereinafter referred to as RIS) for which KRW 331.2 billion of budget was input for recent five years. YU is the central university of RIS Project being implemented by Daegu-Gyeongbuk RIS and leads Future Car Conversion Component Project. The contest was held in Daegu/Gyeongbuk Training Center of Small and Medium Business Corporation in Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongbuk on the 3rd February and 100 students of 28 teams from 12 universities participated. The participants obtained the theoretical and practical knowledge on manufacture of autonomous driving vehicles through on/off-line training before the contest. They completed training on basic theory of autonomous driving vehicles, practice for disassembling and structuring model electric vehicles, autonomous driving sensors and data, and autonomous driving algorithm and programming, etc. and each team designed autonomous driving programs using model electric vehicles. Especially, for four days before the contest, they enhanced completion levels of their designed autonomous driving model electric vehicles and finished driving tests on the tracks installed in the training center through camp training. In the contest held for three days, final ranks were determined by summing mission performance points for lane driving, signal lamps, dynamic obstacles, and walkers, etc. as well as track driving records of autonomous driving model electric vehicles manufactured by the teams. The team of Kyungpook National University took the 1st place, two teams from Daegu University took most excellence awards, and three teams from YU took excellence awards. Manager SA Jong-yeop of YU’s Future Car Conversion Component Project Team (Professor of Department of Future Car Engineering) said, “Students would have the opportunities to obtain basic and professional knowledge through the busy schedule to receive theory training and design autonomous driving electric vehicles in a short time. This is the 2nd RIS Project and the program is being systemized. I will try so that RIS Project of YU becomes the success model of local innovation project by making clear performances of the project year by year.”
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YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (PSPS) held “National/Regional Development Action Plan Contest for Students” Participation of 11 teams from 19 countries including Zambia, Indonesia, and Malawi to share local community development plans through localization of “Saemaul” Foreigner students from 71 countries studied “Saemaul Studies” and returned to work as Saemaul international development experts [January 13, 2023] YU PSPS (Dean LEE Hee-wook) held “National/Regional Development Action Plan Contest for Students.” This is the 8th contest for foreigner students studying “Saemaul Studies” in Korea to apply Saemaul development in their own countries and prepare plans for local community development. In this contest, 43 foreign students from 19 countries who are enrolled at YU Park Chung-hee Graduate School of Saemaul participated in 11 teams. Last December, the final 8 teams selected through the review of action plan proposals and research reports for each team participated in the presentation contest held at Sapphire Hall, Cheonma Art Center, YU at 2:00 pm on the 12th. Foreigner students made presentations with such subjects as ▲A plan to develop rural communities through environmental protection (Myanmar), ▲An inclusive social project for people with albinism (Tanzania), ▲A sustainable community-based tourism industry project in Lombok (Indonesia), ▲A project to improve meal and guarantee healthy life (Congo), ▲ A plan for further expansion of cooperative rice value chain in Ponga and Khapro (Malawi), ▲ A plan to increase community income through degradable plastic products made from cassava husk waste (Indonesia), and ▲ A child education project in rural areas (Guinea) and shared their opinions. In the contest, Zambian Team won first place with a presentation on “Youth Saemaul Education and Fisheries Project in Kapu.” Siame Jairous (41, Department of Public Policy Leadership, Master’s 3rd term), representative of Zambian team, said, “I came to study at YU PSPS with the conviction that Saemaul Undong, which was the foundation of Korea's economic development, would also help the development of Zambia. Preparations for this event gave me an opportunity to deeply think about the strategies and plans for community development with application of Saemaul Undong. After graduation, I hope to have an opportunity to apply it in practice after returning to my home country.” Dean LEE Hee-wook of YU PSPS managed the contest and said, “Saemaul Studies” established by YU through decades of education and research has great value as a practical study. This is why it is most important for foreigner students majoring in Saemaul Studies and International Development to think about establishment of action plans that may be applied for development of their own countries based on their theoretical knowledge. The knowledge and experiences obtained in YU PSPS will help development of their countries and communities." YU PSPS was established in 2011 to cultivate Saemaul leaders of developing countries. Foreigner students studying in PSPS consist of public officials planning policies in respective countries, employees of public institutions, social activists, and professional workers, etc. differently from students of faculties or graduate schools. Until 808 students from 71 countries entered PSPS and 724 students from 66 countries received master’s degrees of “Saemaul Studies,” etc. and are working as main policy drafters, international development professionals, and Saemaul Undong leaders in central ministries/offices, public organizations, and international development NGO, etc. Currently, 43 international students from 19 countries are studying. Meanwhile, Rotary International District 3700 Cheongdo Rotary Club (Chairman KIM Byung-soo) sponsored scholarships to encourage foreigner students who participated in “National/Regional Development Action Plan Contest for Students” of PSPS
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