The 3 business groups selected to the nation’s development strategy include culture content, convergence and integration, and heath.
It allows the university to develop with a specialized focus at each campus.
3 business groups from Dankook University were selected to the BK21 Plus specialized professional talent cultivation business announced by the Ministry of Education on November 1.
54 business groups were selected out of 41 universities in the nation for this business cultivating advanced practical professionals of graduate or doctoral degrees in national development strategy fields including high value added industries such as: information protection, cultural content, design, tourism, and health.
Amongst business groups from universities, the second most business groups were selected from Dankook University which was selected for 3 business groups along with Kookmin University, Ewha Woman’s University, and Gangwon University. The largest number came from Jeonnam University with 4 groups. This business will be conducted for the next 7 years and new business groups will be selected in 2016 after re-evaluating the businesses in 2015.
| Selected Fields | Name of Business Groups | Manager |
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| Cultural Content | Cultivating professional global filmmakers based on cultural content | Woo Jeong-Kwon |
| Convergence and Integration based on Human Resources | Business group cultivating professional talent specializing in intellectual property and information protection law | Song Dong-Su |
| Health | Cultivating professional talent specializing in sports and medical science for the improvement in sports efficiency and the national health insurance budget focusing on low birth rates and aging societies | Ok Jeong-Seok |
Projects were selected from a total of 8 business groups in the BK21 Plus program.
The businesses help prepare each of the Universities’ campuses to develop in specialized fields.
Meanwhile, a total of 8 business groups including 4 groups from the Future Creativity based Cultivation Business, 1 group from the Global Talent Cultivation Business, and 3 business groups from Specialized Professional Talent Cultivation were selected to the BK21 Plus Business, comprising in total 3 different types.
Dankook University, ranked one of the top 20 universities in South Korea if you count the number of selected business groups, has been able to achieve both internal and external success due to the fact that it has been able to develop its capacity of research and education due to its specialization.
If you break it down by campus, 4 business groups were selected from the Jukjeon campus while 4 were chosen from the Cheonan campus. If you break it down by the business type, Jukjeon campus was chosen in the fields of photoelectron, convergence software, culture content and convergence and integration; while Cheonan was chosen in the fields of nano bio medical science, green life growth, foreign cultural heritage, and health. These selections match each campus’s specialization which is promoted by Dankook University. Due to these business groups each campus now has a base by which they balance their development through specialization.
Until now, Dankook University has been putting forth tremendous effort to be selected to the BK21 Plus Business by composing a Task Force Team (hereafter TF Team) made of faculty and practical researchers. The TF team has been continuously supporting the university in various fields such as finding businesses connected to the university’s specializations and to be selected to the BK21 Plus business.
A member of the TF team said “this is the result of various thoughts and support from the university to have it achieve its successful outcome,” and while also mentioning that “this result will be the initial point of informing people outside the university about the university’s specialization and capacity enforcement in the future.”