Kim Dae-jung, Awarded Honorary Doctor’s Degree
By Kim Bo-a, Tribune Reporter
Kim Dae-jung, the former president, was granted an honorary doctor’s degree in literature from Chonnam National University and gave a special lecture about the ‘reality of the Korean Peninsula and the 4 concerned countries’ on Oct. 11th last. Many people including students, citizens, and reporters were interested in his visit. At the awarding ceremony, Kang Jung-chaee, president of CNU, said, ‘The former president, Kim Dae-jung has contributed to create a peaceful atmosphere between South and North Korea by maintaining the Sunshine Policy. He was practicing basic values of human rights and cultural enterprise.’ During his speech, Kim emphasized the importance of diplomacy with the four relevant countries: the U.S.A, Japan, China and Russia. After the lecture, former president, Kim took questions related with North Korea’s recent nuclear tests from CNU students. He answered that the Sunshine Policy should continue and that the responsibility for nuclear test issues was on the U.S.A. North Korea and the U.S.A ought to solve the nuclear problem through the Six-party talks.
CNU MBA, Starting Next Month
By Kang A-young, Tribune Reporter
The CNU Professional Graduate School of Business (PSGB) received the preliminary national accreditation at the end of last September and will be established in March, 2007. The PGSB will offer an MBA program, which consists of a two-year regular course, a retraining course for employees and a course for industry-academics, customized for corporate needs. The entrance quota is one hundred. The PSGB will receive applications for admission to the MBA as follows: forty students to the regular course (daytime), another forty students to the retraining course (night time) and the rest to the industry-academic customized course (day + night classes). In order to increase international competitiveness, half the lectures will be given in English. In addition, the PGSB will try to build educational cooperation with prominent MBA programs around the world.
Hong Seong-woo, dean of the college of business administration said, ‘CNU has become the only provincial university to offer an MBA that is accredited by the Ministry of Education & Human Resources. It is a good opportunity for CNU to be a notch above other universities.’ The college of business administration is moving forward with a plan to receive full accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
HSC, the Hub of Honam Study
By Gim Ye-seul, Tribune Cup-reporter
The Honam Study Center (HSC) founded in CNU last year continues to hold its series of lectures with the title “The Story of Honam Studies from local historians”. Honam Studies concerns itself with the Honam region, which is comprised of Gwangju and the Jeollanamdo Province, and the meaningful practices of its people’s everyday lives. The purpose of these lectures is to reinforce in-depth investigation of traditional culture in the Honam region.
Due to the lack of systematic research, it is pointed out that the abundant resources of traditional culture in the Honam region have not been well utilized. The HSC is supposed to foster professional staff for Honam Study and also to carry out collection, excavation, investigation, analysis, translation, research and development of the ancient documents about the Honam region. At the end of this year, it will publish ten books including a collection of regional literature, a biographical dictionary, a chronological table of Honam and a list of Korean verses from the Jeollanamdo province.
Kim Jae-nyoung’s Team, Win Tetrahedron Award
By Kang A-young, Tribune Reporter
The team of Kim Jae-nyoung, professor of the department of chemistry, won the Tetrahedron Most Cited Paper 2003-2006 Award from Tetrahedron, which is an eminent journal listed in the Science Citation Index (SCI). The award is given to a research paper which has been most quoted among the research articles published by the journal. Professor Kim was featured on the cover page of Tetrahedron Letters, vol. 46 (Issue 50) last year. He said, “I feel more honored to receive the award in that our paper came to be acknowledged by other scholars around the world. I should work hard to hold my position; I want to study hard and reconcile the academic with the practical. Finally I appreciate the efforts of graduate students who assisted me, and I want to share this joy with them.”
DDL, Inspires Dreams amongst CNU Students
By Park Sin-nam, Tribune Cup-reporter
The Design Development Laboratory (DDL), a venture club at Yeosu campus, has recently caught public attention for its numerous award records, more than 200 times over the last two years. Some students having interest in starting a business and an employment founded the DDL in 2003. Club adviser, Kim Kyung-soo (Professor of Dept. of Multimedia) said, “Among our many awards, the most memorable one was the Ministry of Commerce Award at Start-up Korea 2005. It was the outcome of our hard work. Their wards reflect the efforts and hard work of our club members.” He added, “Club members hope the DDL will be the best in Korea. As their efforts become recognized nationwide, their dreams will come true through the club activities.”