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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> 32 people of training group from BRICs and Central & South American, experience Korea in Yeungnam University Played catalytic roles in the exchange between leaders of next generation [2009-6-17] From 17th to 21st, Yeungnam University transforms into a place of exchange between leaders of next generation. 32 university students from \'BRICs\' that are 4 (Brazil, Russia, India, China) new economically rising countries and Central & South American countries are experiencing Korea as they stay in Yeungnam University. Their nationality is very diverse. They are students selected as next generation leaders from a total of 10 countries; Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Guatemala, Brazil, Russia, India and China. Yeungnam University preparing a globalization program for raising the Third world leaders is expecting this opportunity to become a chance to promote exchange between leaders of next generation in Korea and various countries of the world. For this, Yeungnam University has prepared various programs for experience of Korea. On the first day, the training schedule orientation and campus tour including special lecture with a theme of Korean traditional culture are prepared. In the evening, a welcome dinner is also waiting. On the second day, they will leave on a tour to Gyeongju where the breath of thousand year\'s ancient capital can be felt including Bulguksa, Seokuram, Shilla Millenium Park and Chunmachong, etc. A more abundant program is ready on the third day. The calligraphy is directly taught by instructors of Yeungnam University Department of Archaic Sino-Korean Education and cooking Korean traditional food with students of School of Food Technology and Food Service Industry are scheduled in the morning. Special lectures on Korean society and a meeting with Yeungnam University students who would provide home stay are prepared for the afternoon. And for 2 nights and 3 days from the evening of that day until Sunday morning, they will stay at the houses of Yeungnam University students to experience warmth of Korean families. Especially on 20th which is Saturday, they will have time to see the Donghwasa and appreciate the scenery of Korea by climbing up the Palgongsan with their host families. In the afternoon of 20th which is the last day at the Yeungnam University, they will have traditional culture experience such as Samulnori and Taekwon-do, etc. In the evening, they will say goodby to Yeungnam University international publicity ambassadors, home stay hosts and buddies. These people who will be leaving Yeungnam University in the morning of 22nd will leave Korea on 25th after visiting POSCO, Postech, Ulsan Hyundai Motors, Suwon Folk Village and Dongdaemun Market, etc.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Certified Financial Planner (CFP) passing rate is 4 times as high as the national average [2009-6-12] School of Business of Yeungnam University is rising as a delivery room of international certified financial specialists. According to Yeungnam University on 12th, as a result of CFP(Certified Financial Planner) exam held on 23rd and 24th, there was a splendid achievement that 80% of applicants from financial license preparation class of the School of Business passed the exam. This is the result which is 4.3 times higher than the national average passing rate which is merely 18.7%. ‘CFP’ is the highest level of financial specialist certified by CFP Board of the United States from the intention of contributing to public interest by raising speciality of financial planning. To become a CFP, 4 E\'s that are basic qualification requirements including Ethics, Education, Experience and Exam must be satisfied. Especially, one must acquire AFPK license in advance after receiving a required education from a AFPK(Associate Financial Planner Korea) designated educational facility that could be called \'preliminary preparation process for CFP\'. to pass the exam. Only CFP can provide general financial services to customers. Thus, one must pass many barriers where a lot of time and effort are required in order to become a CFP. Despite this fact, the interest toward CFP is getting greater in a situation where the financial borders between the countries was vanished by the enforcement of the law regarding the Capital Market and Financial Investment Service Act. For instance, CFP is reckoned as a prospective career to the extent of placing no. 1 in the career preference survey of the Unite States. For this reason, the School of Business of Yeungnam University had signed MOU with Edustock which is a CFP designated education center since Oct, 2008 and started online and offline education of CFP at the same time. During the vacation, Professor Im, Byung-Jin and CFP instructors held a special lecture to unburden students\' mind preparing for CFP license exam. Especially, the acting CFPs of Korea FP Association have met the students directly to encourage younger students as they told about the know-how in the preparation stage of license and experiences in the practical work process. As a result, it gave a splendid achievement of recording a passing rate reaching up to 4.3 times the national average as 8 out of 10 students who have completed the education at the end of May this year. On that result, Professor Han, Young-Chun (52) of the School of Business said that \"we will manage the AFPK course and CFP course more systematically and organically to produce more internationally certified financial specialist.\" by saying \"the social demand for more specialized financial service gets greater as economy grows. At the same time, the demand for ethics of financial specialists is getting higher by experiencing international financial crisis recently. Therefore, a CFP possessing both the professionalism and ethics is indeed the financial specialist that we need.\"
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Yeungnam University Dokdo Institute, Published Dokdo Research Collection Vol.3 Analyzed examination of Japanese research results with Japanese materials, found fabrication in each item Planning to be published in English and Japanese versions [2009-6-2] Yeungnam University Dokdo Institute (Director Kim, Hwa-Kyung, \'Dokdo Institute\' hereafter) has published Dokdo Research Collection Vol.3 <Research for Establishing Dokdo Sovereignty>(Seoul, Kyung-in Publishing Co.). The result of interdisciplinary and international approach on Dokdo issue through research between academics by research teams in various fields including anthropology, Korean history, Historical Geography, international law and politics, etc for last 1 year has been combined as a book. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_02308511544168303 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2009-12-16_09-47-30_495.jpg\" target=_blank> This collection deals with criticism on <Final Report of Investigative Research On Takeshima Issue>(hereinafter \'final report\') announced in March, 2007 by Takeshima Issue Research Society of Shimane, Japan as a special edition. In the reality where interest toward Dokdo is heightened just like a fad whenever there is provocation of Japan and quickly fades away, the task of examining the final report compiling assertion of Japanese side as a whole and rebutting each and every item was performed for the first time by Dokdo Institute. The special edition is composed of \'Study On Dokdo Awareness Shown In Old Map of Korea\' (Kim, Hwa-Kyung), \'Criticism On Analysis of Western-World-Produced Maps In Final Report of Investigative Research On Dokdo Issue\' (Kim, Jung-Sook), \'Dokdo Within Samkuk Tongram Yeojiro Jungjeondo and Ineungdo\' (Hosaka Yuji), \'Study On Dokdo Literature of Japanese Edo Era quoted In Final Report of Investigative Research On Dokdo Issue\' (Kim, Ho-Dong), \'Fabrication of Paradox Surrounding Dokdo Depredation\' (Kim, Hwa-Kyung), \'Investigation On Misinterpretation of Dokdo Kyungyungjajungjeongyangsamssiripjieon\' (Choi, Jang-Geun) and \'Critical Study On Handling of Takeshima Shown in San Francisco Peace Treaty of Tsukamodo Takasi\' (Jung, Gap-Yong) with a title of \'Criticism of Final Report of Investigative Research On Dokdo Issue.\' Among these, Professor Kim, Jung-Sook (Department of Korean History, Yeungnam University) is pointing out that \"Japanese researchers were voluntary in selecting maps that become targets of research by performing actions such as including many unnecessary maps or excluding maps that are actually necessary from the scope of analysis.\" Professor Hosaka Yuji (Sejong University) has rebutted by saying that \"this map was an official map of Japanese feudal government admitting that Dokdo is Korean territory by international law.\" on the issue that Japan was not acknowledging the value of Dokdo drawn in <Samkuk Tongram Yeojiro Jungjeondo> of Hayasi Sihei by saying it is a personal map. Also, by verifying the measuring process of Oki Island (Eunkido) of Ineungdo, it proves that Edomakbu was considering Dokdo as outside the Japanese territory. In addition, the collection also inserted \'Investigation On Mixed Case of Dokdo Issue and International Trial\' (Jung, Gap-Yong), \'Historical Change of Ulreungdo and Dokdo\'s Status Seen for Regional Administration System\' (Kim, Ho-dong), \'Historical Record Distortion of Dokdo\'s Historical Research\' (Kim, Ho-dong) and \'Ulreungdo Reflected On Eyes of Doriyi Ryujo during Japanese colonial Period\' (Kim, Ho-dong) with a title of \'Inter-Disciplinary Study On Dokdo.\' Prof. Kim, Hwa-Kyung, a director of Dokdo Institute said that \"this research was started from analyzing and examining materials and research results of Japanese side more strictly and as a result, we could prove the fact that insistence of Japan came from imperialistic desire to expand territory in a more objective way. We are planning to publish this book in English and Japanese to widely inform the international society.\" by saying that \"the recent study result is very important from the aspect that it is a development of countermeasure logics on Japan\'s assertion. That\'s because we could directly cope with Japan\'s criticism that Dokdo research of Korea was ignoring Japan\'s material and assertion until now.\" Meanwhile, Dokdo Institute was established as the first university annexed Dokdo Specialized Research Center in the country in May of 2005. It is attempting to establish theoretic system on Dokdo Sovereignty and \'Dokdo Studies\' by publishing specialized academic papers <Study of Dokdo>(1-5) and <Dokdo Study Collection> until now. In addition, it has been searching for international cooperation for public announcement of Dokdo Sovereignty by Republic of Korea by opening up domestic and foreign academic contests each year. Besides, it is taking initiative to raise general interest and understanding on Dokdo issue through various educational activities such as opening of Dokdo archive and middle school teacher training, etc. As a result of such effort, it was selected as \'key research center\' from Korea Research Foundation in December, 2007 and designated as \'key research center of policy\' by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in May, 2008.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> 62nd Anniversary Ceremony and Proclamation of University Vision \"YU Glocal Initiative’ [2009-5-20] <the congratulatory address> <EMBED style=\"TOP: 103px\" align=center src=mms://media.yu.ac.kr/pr/20905203.wmv width=560 height=405 autostart=\"true\"> <YU Glocal Initiative - the Promotional video> Yeungnam University(President Lee, Hyo-Soo) will invest 100 million US $ for 4 years to raise \'\'Y type talents\'\'. Yeungnam University held 62th anniversary ceremony and ‘Vision YU Glocal Initiative\'\' proclamation ceremony at Chunma Art Center chamber hall on 20th at 10:30 AM. Yeungnam University has explained ’Vision YU Glocal Initiative\'\' with an objective of entering \'\'domestic top 10\'\' in 2013 and entering \'\'world top 100\'\' in 2020 at this place. ‘YU Glocal Initiative\'\' is an objective of becoming a key local university of global standard playing the leading role in globalization of region and foundation of knowledge after securing global competitiveness of production of knowledge and raising talents. To make this possible, Yeungnam University is planning to promote top 3 objectives and top 7 strategies, 21 actions plans and 100 detailed tasks. Top 3 objectives are ‘top 100 university of the world’, ‘key university of region’, ‘convergence research frontier’. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_0516454272916188 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2009-12-16_09-14-25_495.jpg\" target=_blank> Among them, the field Yeungnam University is placing the greatest main object on is becoming \'\'top 100 university of the world\'\' to create the knowledge having global competitiveness and supplying distinguished talents to global market. That\'\'s because in knowledge based society the source of university\'\'s and nation\'\'s competitive power is the people of talent. To make this possible, Yeungnam University is planning to invest 100 million US $ for 4 years from now with cultivating \'\'Y-type\'\' Human resources\'\'. Among 100 billion wons, 30 billion wons will be invested in education programs such as consolidation of basic education, strengthening of global capacity and leadership academy, etc. another 30 billion wons will be invested in optional type and custom type scholarship system such as \'\'Sharing scholarship\'\' for low income families or \'\'Glocal talent scholarship\'\'. The 28 billion wons will be invested in establishing a learning environment of highest standard for each academic fields and 12 billion wons will be invested in establishing Health University such as building multi-purpose ball game center, swimming pool and fitness center, operating no smoking & obesity clinic and building ECO-campus. New Establishment of International Graduate School, Raising the Third World Leaders Especially, in order to raise a true \'\'Glocal talents\'\', Yeungnam University is planning to promote in-bound globalization and out-bound globalization at the same time. Among them, the project that is placed with most emphasis is the new establishment of international graduate school which is under promotion with a goal of opening up for first semester of next year. The international graduate school to be newly established is planned to be specialized as a center to raise third world leader and next generation leaders. To make this possible, Yeungnam University is planning to conclude an agreement with international organizations, targeted countries and main oversea agencies such as UN, UNDP and ASEAN, etc while raising it as a key point to spread Korean economic growth models such as \'\'Saemaeul Academics\'\' (provisional name) to the entire world. Besides, while providing video English lectures of prestigious universities worldwide on a real-time basis starting second half of this year, it is planning to make the entire campus as \'\'the miniature global village\'\' by also operating \'\'international house\'\' where Korean students and foreign students live together. It is also planning to hold \'\'Glocal Initiative Special Lectures\'\' by inviting Korean merchants who had succeeded in foreign countries in connection with \'\'The 10th World\'\'s Korean Merchant Contest\'\' confirmed to be held in Daegu next year. Adopting Convergence Major System, Such As \'\'Major of Interdisciplinary study for Green energy\'\' Even in the field of Research, Yeungnam University has presented completely different strategy and paradigm as before. The \'\'global 10-3-10 strategy\'\' means placing top 10 in the world in 3 academic fields within 10 years. It is a strategy of being determined to accomplish predominant competitiveness in entire world after discovering new fields through \'\'convergence\'\' between academics which is not a specialized strategy of raising certain one field of academics. To make this possible, it is planning to discover 3 academic fields to be raised by emphasis from now on by promoting education and research of exchange between adjacent academics by adopting a custom type convergence major system like \'\'Major of Interdisciplinary study for Green energy\'\'. At the same time, while promoting convergence research atmosphere after new establishment of ‘CRC\'\'(Convergence Research Center) in the near future, it is planning to provide active support on receiving orders for government-supported large projects by hiring large number of foreign teachers with excellent research ability and organizing the joint ’F/G‘(Focus Group) with Korean teachers. Development of the Subway Station Area Yeungnam University will also spread a bold profitable businesses for the epochal improvement of university\'\'s financial structure. Especially, it is planning to develop one entire main gate area into large scale station area (provisional name \'\'Chunma Plaza\'\') based on Yeungnam Station facing the opening of subway line 2 in 2011. To make this possible, it is planning to give shape to the construction concept called \'\'fine brand university village\'\' after forming sympathy within school by opening up a public hearing at the second half of this year. In addition it is planning to make creation of stable profit structure official such as establishing a technology holding company. Besides, Yeungnam University will also promote practical projects for establishing the innovation university administration system, building of B.E.S.T(Beautiful, Enjoyable, Sustainable, Topmost) campus, and inspiring member\'\'s pride. President Lee, Hyo-Soo promised that \"I\'\'ll make this become recorded as a successful example showing what a university shsould be doing and how it should be done in a knowledge based society through a audacious innovation\" by saying \"to prevent from stopping at a mere slogan, I have prepared 21 action plans and 100 detailed tasks very specifically.\"
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> KOREAN LANGUAGE SHORT-TERM PROGRAM IN WINTER ● PROGRAM 1 - DATE: December 28, 2009 ~ January 22, 2010 (20 days * 3 hours = 60 hours) - Tuition fee: 300,000KRW <TABLE style=\"WIDTH: 316px; HEIGHT: 60px\" height=0 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width=316 border=1> Class Time Conversation (Level 1) 9:00 ~12:00 Conversation (Level 2) 9:00 ~12:00 ● PROGRAM 2 - DATE: December 28, 2009 ~ January 22, 2010 (20 days * 2 hours = 40 hours) - Tuition fee: 200,000KRW <TABLE style=\"WIDTH: 316px; HEIGHT: 60px\" height=0 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=0 width=316 border=1> Class Time TOPIK preperation 10:00 ~12:00 Conversation (Level 2) 15:00 ~17:00 ● Tuition fee waiver - 50% waiver for instructors at FLI - 100% waiver for professors at Yeungnam university ● Application - Place: Office of Korean Language Institute (Office No.317, 3rd floor of Daegu Bank building) - Date: By December 23, 2009 (Wed.) 17:00 - How to apply : Submitting the application form by visiting or sending e-mail(kli@ynu.ac.kr) - How to pay tuition fee * Sending to 영남대학교 bank account (080-04-000325-1,영남대학교) * By December 23, 2009 (Wed.) 17:00 ● Placement test: December 23, 2009(Wed.) 17:00 ● Inquiry Tel) 053-810-1622,1624,1628 Fax) 053-810-2028 E-mail) kli@ynu.ac.kr
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Selected 2 times consecutively since 2008 After completing corporate-customized curriculum, guaranteed employment [February 13, 2009] Yeungnam University Department of Family and Housing Studies (dean Sang-wook Hong) was selected as the \"Design Department Contract Operation Project\" hosted by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Korea Institute of Design Promotion. Thus, Yeungnam University Department of Family and Housing Studies was selected consecutively since 2008 and will receive government funding worth 12 million won. The \'Design Department Contract Operation Project\' is a program for training and employing company-customized design experts that perform practical education for seniors in design-related majors at 4 year universities. Thus, Yeungnam University Department of Family and Housing Studies operates a course that focuses on practical education needed by companies and gives 2 credits to students that complete the class. In addition, the top students also have the benefits of given priority for employment at the corresponding company when they graduate. This year, 6 students were selected from seniors in the Department of Family and Housing Studies. During this semester, they will be working with the interior design of a finance institute that are being performed by Daehan A.I and the interior design projects of expressway rest areas that are being performed by Won International, respectively. These 6 who possess design-related national certificates and computer certificates will have the opportunity to test their abilities in the real world before they graduate in June. They will also receive compensation for their work for the project. Professor Ok-hee Ahn (48) who is supervising this project states, \"We will get feedback from the previous year\'s performance in order to run a stronger program this year.\" She also added, \"Since we\'ve been selected for the program that ensures full-time employment in times where it has become difficult for college graduates to find a job, we will focus on training general specialists that have a wide range of knowledge on various fields, while specializing in one, so that they could be utilized by companies.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> KAIST, Korea University, SNU, POSTEC, Yeungnam University Professor Hwa-jo Lee of the school of Mechanical Engineering, Instructor Award [February 12, 2009] Yeungnam University (president Hyo-soo Lee) had 4 winners in the \'2008 Campus Patent Strategy Universiade\' and placed 5th overall. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office, Yeungnam University had 4 winning teams including 3 awards of excellence and 1 honorable mention in the patent strategy sector. Yeungnam University had the most winners following KAIST (18), Korea University (7), SNU (7) and POSTEC (6). Professor Hwa-jo Lee (54, photo) of the school of Mechanical Engineering won the Instructor Award. Kwak Gyeong-cheol (25, Mechanical Engineering, junior), Kim Sang-deok (23, Mechanical Engineering, sophomore) and Choi Young-seok (26, Electric Engineering, senior) made a team received a award and 7 million won for their paper on \'IT Technology, Ship Building, Safe Navigation and Intelligence\'. Park Joo-han (29, Mechanical Engineering, senior), Lee Woong-hee (27, Mechanical Engineering, senior) and Kim Ji-hoon (28, Mechanical Engineering, senior) wrote a thesis on \'Waste Heat Recovery Device and Environment-Friendly Performance Improvement Systems\', while Lee Seung-hyub (28, Mechanical Engineering, senior), Ryu Tae-ha (25, Mechanical Engineering, senior) and Lee Jung-hyung (24, Mechanical Engineering, junior) wrote a thesis titled, \'CO2 Reduction Technology\' to win the CEO award and 5 million won. Kwon Hyun-i (25), Sohn Hee-dong (25) and Kim Jong-yeob (26), who are all juniors in Mechanical Engineering, won 1 million won for their paper on \'Waste Heat Recovery Device and Environment-Friendliness Performance Improvement Systems\'. Professor Hwa-jo Lee stated, \"I am very proud of my students who had great results while competing against graduate-level students.\" He also added, \"I hope that their creative ideas will be utilized on site by companies.\" The \'Campus Patent Strategy Universiade\' has been hosted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea for college of science, college of engineering and graduate school students since last year in order to broaden practical patent education and to procure man power and ideas fitting to the needs of companies. The \'Campus Patent Strategy Universiade\', which is an industry-academy open innovation conference where companies give the patent-related problem and university students find the solutions, has 2 different sections: establishing patent strategies and investigating preceding technologies. In the patent strategy establishment sector, there were a total of 19 problems given, while there were 10 problems in the preceding technology examination sector in which judgments were to be made for possibility of patenting following examinations of preceding technologies. This year, 2050 students from 68 universities participated in the event and it was judged by literary reviews, document interviews and presentations. 89 teams (172 students) from 34 universities were awarded as winners. In the Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo areas, winning universities were Yeungnam University, POSTECH (6), Daegu University (1) and Kumoh National Institute of Technology (1). The awards ceremony will be held at the Korea Technology Center (Yeoksam-dong, Seoul) at 11 am on the 13th (Friday). Winners will be given priority for employment at prominent companies such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Chemical, Siltron, Honam Petrochemical, Hyosung, DC Chemical, Hanwha Chemical, Hyundai Steel, Jusung Engineering, DSME, Samsung Heavy Industries, Hanjin Heavy Industries and STX Shipbuilding.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> MEST scores best among the 10 e-Learning Support Center Universities [2009-2-10] <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_03909555984933497 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2009-04-30_10-29-24_469.jpg\" target=_blank> Recording internet class at the e-Learning Support Center \'3D Virtual Studio\' The \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo universities e-Learning Support Center (director Gwang-su Sung, hereinafter \'e-Learning Support Center)\' operated by Yeungnam University was scored the nation\'s best. According to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (minister Byeong-man Ahn, hereinafter \'MEST\'), after evaluating the 2008 performance of e-Learning Support Centers in 10 universities across the nation, Yeungnam University was ranked \'Best\'. In result, Yeungnam University will be provided with funding worth 115 million won for developing contents. Evaluation was conducted on a total of 35 indexes in 5 different evaluation areas such as strategy, organization, contents, operations and consortiums. Results showed that Yeungnam University had outstanding facilities such as the 3D virtual reality studio, high financial independency and the highest level of joint use of the system. In addition, it was judged to have outstanding performance because it had driven the credit exchange with other universities and institutes in order to improve utilization of contents and because it had developed contents fitting to the various studying types such as simulation, repeated studying and lecturing. In particular, its high assessment was because of the school taking the initiative in the military service credits through internet courses for soldiers in uniform. Furthermore, it placed great efforts to develop and operate customized contents based on industry-academic cooperation by binding an \'e-Learning Technology Agreement\' with Gumi Samsung Electronics, and it developed the contents called \'Facts About Dokdo\' together with the province of Gyeongsangbukdo in both Korean and English. It also received the highest scores for the e-Learning institute certification screening sponsored by the Korea U-Learning Association in 2008. The e-Learning Support Center director, Professor Gwang-su Sung (School of Electronic Engineering, Communication Engineering and Computer Science, 43) at Yeungnam University stated, \"These are the results of our efforts to become a central base for promoting customized education services fitting to the ubiquitous era by constructing online lifelong learning systems and OJT (On-the-Job Training) education systems with businesses\". He added, \"This year our goal is for \'globalization of e-learning\' and we will focus on developing history and cultural contents, supporting language selection functions for contents, standardizing contents, global e-learning course development such as understanding Korean language, Korean culture and Dokdo.\" Meanwhile, since opening its first internet courses in 1998, Yeungnam University has recently been opening an average of 120 internet courses per a semester in order to provide educational services that surpasses time and space. In July 2005, it was selected as an administering university for \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo university e-Learning Support Center\' by MEST, and it is pursuing the \'e-Learning Cluster Construction Project\' to share credits with 40 universities in the region.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Vision proclaimed on the 4th, create growth power for Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo Focus research on intelligent LED-IT light source systems for automobiles, mobile phones and displays [February 5, 2009] <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_09696866365556739 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2009-04-29_13-31-24_466.jpg\" target=_blank> A bold attempt at greater synergy effects by tying together IT, automobile and display industries is unfolding. At 4pm on the 4th, the \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo LED-IT Fusion Industry Development Vision Proclamation Ceremony\' was held at the Daegu Inter-Burgo Hotel hosted by Yeungnam University (president Hyo-soo Lee) and sponsored by MEST, Gyeongsangbukdo and Daegu city. Assemblywoman Geun-hye Park and sssemblyman Gyeong-hwan Choi made a congratulatory speech and Lee Yoon-ho, minister of MEST, gave the keynote address. Professor Ja-soon Jang of Yeungnam University followed up with a speech on the \'Daegu-Gyeongsangbukdo LED Fusion Industry Development Strategy\'. The \'LED-IT Fusion Technology Research Center\', which will lead the future of Daegu and Gyeongsangbukdo, will be located at Yeungnam University. Construction of the center is expected to be completed by 2018 costing 43 billion won near the Gyeongbuk Techno Park. This will be a local hub for training human resources for next generation LED-IT fusion technology R&D. In addition, various business plans are also being pursued in order to create more demand for LED. Meanwhile, MEST announced that it will open the doors of 4 LED fusion technology support centers at Yeungnam University, Gwangju KOPTI, Gyeonggi Gwanggyo Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center and Chonbuk University, in order to develop LED fusion technologies and foster human resources. For this, 76.5 billion won (national funds, provincial funds, private funds included) will be invested in the 4 centers by 2013.