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Light to the World 1 Contents President’s Greeting 5 Keimyung Facts 6 Three Identities in One 8 Light to the World 14 Study in Korea; Learn about Korea 18 Study Abroad & Exchange 22 Academic Programs 26 Meaningful Relationships 30 International Support 36 Life at Keimyung 38 Admissions & Scholarships 51 International Partners 52 Finding Us 55 Contacts 56 2 3 President’s Greeting I am honored to have this opportunity to introduce Keimyung University to you through this new brochure published in 2012 as we mark the 58th anniversary of Keimyung’s founding. The intervening years have seen the University grow from such humble beginnings as seeds in the minds of our Christian founders who realized the necessity of a new institute of higher learning in the city of Daegu, which had just begun its recovery from war, to the internationally renowned university Keimyung is today. Adorning the wall facing Dongsan Library’s main entrance and ever reminding us of our permanent and most important mission is the Latin expression “Bonus Intra Melior Exi” which translates as "enter good; leave better." Keimyung University, with its deep commitment to academic excellence and ethical scholarship, is a place of learning where students of all ages enter good and leave better as creative global citizens. The seeds that were planted upon our founding in 1954 have indeed borne great fruit; nevertheless, if we are to ensure that future students leave Keimyung better than when they first grace our halls, the planting of new seeds must remain our never-ending obligation. It is my hope that as you browse this brochure or visit our campus you will see not only the fruits of previously planted seeds, but also more recently planted seeds taking root and blossoming as we continue writing this still early history of Keimyung University. Synn Ilhi 4 5 Founded in 1954 3 Campuses 99 Majors in 19 Undergraduate Colleges and 2 Faculties 9 Graduate Schools 4,411 Undergraduate Classes Keimyung 903 Postgraduate Courses 436 Classes Delivered in English per semester 26,661 Students 1,076 International Students Facts 925 Faculty Members 125 International Faculty Members 270 International Partners in 49 Countries 7 Dormitories with 1,065 Rooms 6 7 “We have chiseled away such a rock mountain and prepared for today.” Three Identities Daemyung Campus When Keimyung was founded in 1954, the original Daemyung Campus was located on a rocky hill far away from the inhabited in One center of the city. The hill was known in the vernacular simply as the rock mountain. It was indeed a hill of shale rocks on which certainly no trees or bushes, except for a few strains of the most tenacious weeds, could take root. A rock mound monument on the original campus is both a remnant of that original landscape and a humble reminder of our beginnings. 8 9 Dongsan Campus: A Place of Compassionate Healing Dongsan Medical Center was established in 1899 A new era for Keimyung University and Dongsan by American Presbyterian missionary Woodbridge Medical Center, Keimyung’s affiliated hospital, O. Johnson. The center began as a small western is set to begin in 2014 when Dongsan Medical clinic named Jaejungwon (Salvation Hospital) and Center completes its move to new state-of-the- introduced western medicine to Daegu for the art premises on Keimyung’s Seongseo Campus. first time. The new Dongsan Medical Center will house more than 1,000 beds and complete Keimyung Having adopted treatment, education, research, University’s medical cluster which now includes and missionary work as its mission, the center the School of Medicine, the College of Nursing, has grown into a large medical facility, operating and the College of Pharmacy. the School of Medicine, the College of Nursing, Daegu Dongsan Hospital, and Gyeongju Dongsan Hospital. In total the center is home to 26 clinical departments and 1,900 faculty and staff. The center’s most outstanding achievement is its medical missionary work managed by the Dongsan Medical Mission and Welfare Association, to which all faculty and staff belong. The association facilitates yearly medical trips to Almaty Dongsan Hospital in Kazakhstan. The association also provides support for the management of Dongsan Special Medical Clinic in Nepal and CHDP-K Hospital in Bangladesh as well as medical support to regions of Kyrgyzstan, China, and Ethiopia. 10 11 Seongseo Campus The development of Keimyung University acquired a new dimension in the early 1980s when it added to its existing two campuses a new campus built on 1.6 million sq. meters in the west of Daegu. Now considered one of the most beautiful campuses in Korea, Seongseo Campus is often utilized by television and movie production companies for location filming. With world-class facilities including Hengso Museum, Keimyung Art Center, and Keimyung Hanhak-chon, Keimyung University’s Seongseo Campus provides the perfect environment in which you can advance your studies while exploring the culture, history, and language of Korea. 12 13 Enhancement of University Education Leaders in Industry-College Capacity Program Cooperation (LINC) In 2010 Keimyung University was granted USD 5 The Office of Industry-Academic Collaboration million by the Korean government as part of its and Research shares technology and knowledge Enhancement of University Education Capacity drawn from the University’s research by Program. The project aims to reinforce students’ constructing information sharing networks workforce capability, increase their global through close cooperation with the government awareness, and improve the overall educational to foster new technologies and nurture capability of every field of study. To achieve this tomorrow’s experts. In 2012 the office received vision students are provided with educational USD 15 million to be utilized over 5 years as part and financial support. The University also received of the government’s LINC program. similar amounts of funds under this program in 2011 and 2012. Business Startup Support Advancement for College Education (ACE) Chosen as a leading business startup center by the Small and Medium Business Administration, Keimyung University was honored to be chosen Keimyung’s Business Startup Support Center as an ACE university by the Ministry of Education, supports successful business startups, provides Science and Technology in 2011. As an ACE business startup training packages and classes, university, Keimyung received USD 9.8 million to fosters innovative IT developers, and offers be utilized over a 4-year period. This monumental scholarships to exceptional students. opportunity greatly strengthens Keimyung's ability to grow and develop into a leading 21st-century university. IT Medical Device Convergence Leader Keimyung University’s Human Resource Development Center was selected by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to receive USD 22 million over a 5-year period between Light to June 2009 and May 2014. The funds will be used to foster IT medical device convergence specialists, conduct research and training courses, offer lectures by international experts, and send the World participants to international conferences. This program has been amalgamated into LINC program. 14 15 Internationalization Giving Back to the Community Keimyung University, with its 270 exchange Students from France’s European Institute of Keimyung Caritas International Volunteers agreements with universities and organizations Technology (EPITECH) can elect to spend their Since its foundation in 1954, Keimyung University Keimyung University’s International Volunteer in 49 countries, can justly claim to be a leader compulsory year abroad at Keimyung. Thirteen has received substantial support from charitable Group was created in 2002 with the goal in the field of internationalization. In addition to EPITECH students arrived in August 2011 to begin donors. The Keimyung Caritas foundation was of nurturing in students a pioneering and those agreements, around 5,000 students enroll their year abroad. Keimyung will welcome 32 established in 2004 to honor the intention of volunteering spirit. Utilizing field trips to broaden in more than 400 courses taught in English every more in 2012. those charitable acts by donating to those in students’ cultural experiences, the program has semester by our Korean faculty fluent in English need. been a success since it began. and our growing 125-strong international faculty. Staff and faculty can join Keimyung Caritas by The first volunteers ventured to China’s Heibei Furthering internationalization efforts that directly Dual Degree Programs contributing 1% of their basic monthly salary. The Province in 2002 where they planted 10,000 benefit domestic students are KELI House, the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music funds are used to help disadvantaged members thuja trees to help alleviate the problems caused first English-only dormitory in the region; C-CLIK St. Petersburg State University of the community and assist in reconstruction by China’s yellow dust. Countries visited since House, a Chinese-language dormitory; and JIKU Eastern Michigan University efforts after natural disasters worldwide. then include Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam, and House, a Japanese-language dormitory. These University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mongolia where classrooms and bathrooms have facilities not only hone the language skills of DigiPen Institute of Technology One way in which Keimyung Caritas helps local been built and repaired and improvements made students, but pave the way for them to make Shanghai Normal University citizens is through the annual Kimchi-Making Day to local water supply facilities. Each year around the most of their overseas study sojourns to our Beijing Language and Culture University event in which Keimyung students, staff, faculty, 150 students participate in the program gaining partner universities worldwide. and local citizens spend the day making kimchi meaningful life-changing experiences. destined for the community’s less fortunate members. 16 17 Study in Korea; Learn about Korea Korean Language and Culture Center (KLCC) KLCC provides Korean language courses and dynamic cultural programs ensuring you make the most of your Korean experience at Keimyung.