Chonnam National University (CNU) hosted a ceremony marking its 66th anniversary on June 8 at Minjumaru Auditorium. CNU President Jeong Byung-seok, CNU Alumni Association President Jung In-chae, alumni, faculty, staff, students and local residents attended the ceremony and celebrated its anniversary
CNU students enjoyed a special event for their university lives on campus. CNU held a ‘Happy Booth Day’ event around Bongji on May 30. As a part of the three-day ‘Students Culture Week’ program started on May 29, it aimed to give students valuable information about extracurricular activities and an
As part of the CNU Student Culture Week program, a student presentation competition titled "CNU Is Action (Idea, Speak, Action)" took place at Yongbong Hall on May 29. This program aimed to vitalize CNU’s student culture by enhancing the creativity and imagination of the students.
An exhibition titled "Put the Spirit of Honam into Action: Looking into the May 18" featuring books about the May 18 is now being held on the second floor of the Library at Chonnam National University.
On May 14, international students enjoyed a traditional Korean music concert at Jaeum Hall in the College of Arts at CNU. The Dept. of Traditional Korean Music organized the concert and the professors of the department performed traditional Korean music on the gayageum, a traditional Korean zither-l
As CNU becomes more globalized, many international students from different parts of the world want to enroll at the university. Just as the number of international students is increasing significantly year by year, CNU is doing its best to make sure that they are getting a well-qualified education a
CNU members and Gwangju citizens commemorated the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement on May 18. The May 18 Institute at CNU hosted a commemoration event to mark the 38th anniversary of the May 18 Movement at Yongbong Hall at the university. At the ceremony, Moon Seok-hwan, the vice president of
CNU students did a four-day volunteer work in rural communities from May 4 and 7. Divided into nine groups, about 220 students participated in voluntary activities in Damyang, Gangjin and Gwangju. Kim Chang-yeon (Sophomore, Dept. of Environment and Energy Engineering) said, “I wanted to put myself i
The CNU Alumni Association had a celebration dinner for Vietnamese students at CNU to mark Vietnam’s Reunification Day on April 29. The event was well-attended by high-profile individuals, including CNU Alumni Association President Jeong In-chae, CNU President Jeong Byung-seok, Nguyen Viet Phong, vi
Malaysian students held an annual Malaysia Day event on April 25 on the first floor of the G&R Hub building at CNU. The event aimed to celebrate and share attractive Malaysian culture with Korean and international students from various countries. During the event, Malaysian students ran many booths
CNU’s Yeosu campus has operated Korean cultural experiences for international students with the theme of “Favorable”. The cultural excursions have been done as a part of the cultural classes since April 2018. The students visited famous tourist attractions and historic places around Yeosu and Sunche
International students had a half-day tour to Damyang and enjoyed the Damyang Bamboo Festival on May 5. At this cultural program organized by the Office of International Affairs, 40 international students and four members of CNU International student Supporters tried many activities including riding
The 2018 CNU International Summer Session (ISS) started on May 3rd. The Korean buddy students for the ISS international students from around the world received their first orientation in the seminar room located on the first floor at the G&R Hub building. The ISS aims to help students enhance their
Voting for the Book of the Year for the 2018 Gwangju and Jeonnam Read and Talk (GJRT) program started on April 25. The residents of Gwangju City and Jeonnam Province can participated in the vote at 21 polling places including CNU Library and local libraries, and also online on the GJRT website until
CNU Student Club Fair took place from March 20 to 22 around Bongji. Recognized student clubs set up booths to recruit new members and give information about the clubs’ activities. While this event was in operation, students to join on-campus clubs had good opportunities to get information about a va
CNU announced on January 11 that it would build a ‘Democracy Road’ on Yongbong Campus. Starting from the Main Gate, which is the starting place of the May 18 Gwangju Democratic Uprising, it links several historical sites for democracy at the university including the Martyr Park Gwan-hyeon Monument,
CNU held the 66th first graduation ceremony on Gwangju and Yeosu campus respectively on February 26. In this ceremony, a total of 3,397 graduates received their degrees: 3,085 Bachelor’s, 779 Master’s, and 133 Doctoral degrees. Nearly 1,500 guests including President Jeong Byung-seok, faculty member
CNU offered a two-day orientation program for new international undergraduate students on March 2 on Yeosu campus. 130 students out of international students who enrolled at the university attended the program organized by the Office of International Affairs for the increasing number of new internat
The entrance ceremony for 6,045 newly enrolled undergraduate and graduate students took place at Minjumaru on Gwangju campus on March 2. 132 students won presidential awards for top academic success. President Jeong Byung-seok welcomed freshmen and hoped that the students will predict change and tho