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Students Participating in DKU’s International Summer School Produce Line-Up Video Live Emotion of Youths Spanning East and West Stands Out In succession of “Lip Dub,” a Dankook University introductory and promotional video which gained attention among universities 3 years ago, another interesting video has been shot. More surprisingly, it was made by foreign students who came to Dankook University from abroad to study during summer vacation. It was a blazing hot afternoon in August. A small number of foreigners oblivious to differences in skin color started to gather in Jukjeon Campus. They were smiling all the time. They had blue and red wigs in their hands and were busy memorizing something. They were students participating in DKU’s 2013 International Summer School (ISS). It was shooting day for ‘Lined Up’ (a video of lined up students singing but pretending to lip sync a song – the original audio soundtrack will be added later to the video). They set up the location at Deulsaem Street between Beomjeong Hall and Toegye Memorial Central Library. They prepared to shoot the video by setting up a fixed camera and helping each other practice their parts. About 40 foreign students were repetitively mumbling the lyrics and poses next to the camera to perform their parts perfectly. This UCC video was planned and produced by foreign students who were participating in DKU’s ISS to record their memories in Dankook University while getting to know each other a little better. Starting from the music and poses to the prop selection, all of the elements were planned out and prepared by these students. Swedish female duet singer Icona Pop’s “I Love It” was selected. This is a well known song to the public since it has been used in a popular cell phone advertisement and other media. 2 hours after starting the video shoot, foreign student participants monitored their performance, encouraging each other for their efforts. With satisfaction, each of them carried a joyful memory from Dankook University in their head and heart. John Legaspi (Electric Computer Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, USA, age 24) who planned the video sent thanks to the participants saying he “planned the video shoot to keep the short yet joyful time and memories in Dankook University forever.”

Four Future-based Creative Talent Building Project Teams and One Global Talent Building Business Group Selected Foundation for Research Capacity Advancement in University Specialization Established Four Type-3 Future-based Creative Talent Building Project Teams Selected Four teams from Dankook University were selected as future-based creative talent building project teams - Type 3 BK Plus Projects - announced by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea. 345 business groups and 866 project teams from 108 universities around the nation in all types of fields including science and technology, humanities and social science applied, and among these, only 195 business groups and 280 project teams from 64 universities were selected as finalists for this year’s BK21 Plus Business. The program is executed by the Ministry of Education to enforce education and research capabilities of local graduate schools and to advance research-based universities while fostering individuals at the master’s and doctorate levels who will lead Korea’s creative economy. 4 teams from Dankook University were selected as finalists and will be receiving a total of 760 million won of government funding in the first year. This program lasts for 7 years starting from this year until 2019, and business groups may be re-selected upon evaluation after initial support for 2 years. ※ Details of Future-based Creative Talent Type Business Selection Department Project Team Manager Participating Professors Polymer Science and Engineering Organic Photoelectron Function Material Human Development Team Lee Joon-Yeop Jin Byeong-Doo, Hwang Seok-Ho Computer Science & Engineering Intelligent Object Convergence Software Professional Development Team Choi Jong-Mu Shin Won-Yong, Chang Seok-Ho, Cho Sung-Jae Choi Sang-il, Choi Yong-Keun Animal Science Animal Resources for Environmentally Friendly and Safe Livestock Production Professional Development Team Kim In-Ho Kang Dae-Kyung, Kim Jin-Young, Cho Jin-Ho Mongolian Bio-cultural Heritage Research Talent Development Team Lee Sung-Kyu Chultemsuren Rinchin, Song Byeong-Koo For Global Talent Building (Type 1) Business Group, 710.5 Million Won of Funding Provided In addition to the other finalists, the Global Research Group of the Nano Bio Recovery Medicine Department was selected as a BK21 Plus Global Talent Building (Type 1) Business Group finalist, as announced by the Ministry of Education on September 11, 2013, along with 21 business groups of 15 universities from across the nation, including Seoul National University and KAIST. In this business group, not only do graduate students of the Department of Nano Biomedical Science Department participate but also the research manager, Professor Kim Hae-Won, as well as Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, Life Science professors including Kong Myung-Seon, Shin Won-Sang, Shim Ho-Seob, Yang Hee-Seok, Oh Sae-Heng, Chang Young-Ju, Han Kyu-Dong, Hyun Jung-Keun, Hong Kwon-Ho (Department of Nano Biomedical Science undergraduate/graduate school) and Ahn Sang-Mi (Department of Pharmacy). For this 7-year project, 550 million won of funding will be provided in 6-month increments for the first year, followed by 1.1 billion won of funding annually for the remainder of the project tenure for a grand total of 7.15 billion won. 40% of the business cost will be given to participating graduate students as research scholarships. The goal of the business group is to cultivate outstanding researchers in Recovery Medicine based on the recently completed WCU Project. 16 famous scholars from 9 research institutes overseas including Harvard University and Duke University of the United States and UCL of England will be invited. Eventually the group hopes to have 150 Ph.D. students and 120 Master’s students in conjunction with this 7 year project.

Dankook University Establishes Material Science and Processing Department in Yantai University Dankook Establishes Its Name Globally with Opening of Relevant Majors and Korean Classes “Although Korea has a higher cost of living than China, I will definitely come back to study in Korea because of its advanced studies, good learning environment, and, most of all, because of it offers a promising future for employment after returning to China.” “I will come to study at Dankook University,’ answered Mr. Wang-Chun-Ja (王天佐, freshman, Yantai University Material Science Processing Major) even before we had finished asking his impression of Korea and the Korean cultural experience program. Mr. Wang is a freshman in Yantai University of China majoring in Material Science and Processing who recently participated in the DKU IKLCP (Intensive Korean Language Culture Program) conducted by Dankook University from last August 1st to 23rd. A total of 9 students of Yantai University’s Material Science and Processing Department, including Mr. Wang, participated in IKLCP. They visited Dankook University not only to participate in the training program for Korean language and culture, but also to check out the school before deciding whether to study abroad here. Ms. Wang-Suh-Heum (freshman, Yantai University Material Science and Processing Major) said, “I will definitely share stories of what I’ve learned and felt at Dankook University to help my friends’ preparation for overseas study once I return to my school.” She also said many students of Yantai University are hoping to study abroad in Dankook University. To be Employed by Korean Companies in China, Students Study in Both Universities At Yantai University, located in Shandong Province, the Korean wave extends to education. About 3,000 Korean companies, including large corporations such as LG, as well as medium size corporations, have branches in regions in Shandong Province surrounding Yantai. For this reason, the number of Chinese university students seeking employment in Korean companies that have entered China increases every year. This means that they will enforce their competitiveness for employment to be hired in Korean corporations by not only becoming proficient in the Korean language proficiency speaking skills but also by obtaining advanced knowledge in major subjects. Korean companies located in major eastern Chinese cities of Shandong Province like Qingdao, Weihai, Yantai, etc., are very popular among local residents. Because of the high quality working conditions and high wages, many Chinese residents are hoping to enter these companies. There is a growing population of Chinese university students hoping to be hired by these firms as technicians, researchers or office workers rather than as laborers. In such an environment, the collaborative education program between Yantai University and Dankook University is gaining in popularity among Chinese students. There are two types of Material Science and Processing programs at Yantai University. The first one is a 4-year education program in Yantai University, and the second one is a 2+2 Program which allows students to spend their first 2 years in Yantai University and the second 2 years in Dankook University. In the traditional program, students can take Korean language classes, and over 1/3 of their major classes are taught by exchange professors. In the 2+2 Program, students take classes at both Yantai University and Dankook University, respectively, for 2 years each. Dankook University is planning to teach Polymer Engineering, Fiber System Engineering, and Chemical Engineering to Material Science and Processing Department students of Yantai University. These courses represent promising majors in Dankook University because of their high competitiveness factor in employment and high future industrial quality. In addition, industries related to such majors are continuously growing in China. Especially, since many companies of related industry fields are located in the Yantai area, these majors are popular in Yantai University. Moreover, when the program was established, majors in these fields received support from the Chinese government and Shandong Province.

On July 19 (Fri), 2pm, A woman entered the Law Scholarship Center of the Jukjeon Campus in a wheelchair with her father. She burst into tears as two professors warmly welcomed her when she got out of the elevator on the 5th floor. She was there to meet her mentors, professors Cho Sung-Yong and Kim Suk-Hyun (From the Law Department at the College of Law). “I wanted to come here so much. For the past several years, I have been struggling with the illness so I couldn’t visit school. But now I am here. Since the school moved over here and I live in a nearby town, Suji, I could come. It’s been 10 years already.” Ms. Shin Ho-Bin. On 2002, she entered the Seoul campus as a law student with a full 4-year scholarship. However, it was the next year, her sophomore year, that this passionate scholar with so much potential as an attorney, who even started to take law tests from her freshmen year, had to stop her studies. In her freshmen year, she felt tired and powerless and eventually she had to leave the school after her sophomore year because her illness became so severe that she could not bear even simple daily activities. This was the start of her long fight against the illness. At that time, she did not know what her illness was, so she had to go around to many hospitals, and she was finally diagnosed with the illness named ‘Scleroma.’ Among all Scleroma disease, her illness was called ‘Systemic Sclerosis’ which was known to have the most severe symptoms. (*Systemic Sclerosis’ is an illness that accompanies the thickening or hardening of skin, blood vessel, and internal organs.) The life of this passionate 20 year old, who dreamt and invested in her future as a successful lawyer slowly started to change from that day. With the hope to be cured soon, she started to fight against her illness but her symptoms progressively worsened. At that time, she was a healthy 175 cm tall woman, but she became more and more weak every day and her health and even her youth quickly worsened with her symptoms. Her parents sacrificed their lives to cure their first born child; her father quit his job to support her daughter and her mother kept on working to support the family. However, as her symptoms did not show much improvement, Ms. Shin got tired of dealing with the illness and slowly insulated her mind from the world. Regardless of the family’s effort and various treatments, her illness got worse. In 2009, she even had to cut off one of her toes because her nerve system started to die in her hands and feet. Finally, she was given a death sentence by a doctor on November 2011. She barely survived each day counting the days until her death, being dependent on an oxygen mask, but miraculously she recovered from the illness. After that she started to communicate with the world to live a meaningful life with her remaining years. “When I was given a death sentence, but recovered slowly after that, a thought came to me. I decided to spend my newly given lifetime to do something meaningful. That’s why I started to write.” To leave a small mark on the world against the destined short life that might be left to her, she started to write and upload her stories on an internet community site which she often visited. She also wrote letters to the people she respected. The people from her online community sent her a book made of the short replies readers left under her postings, and many people from various levels of life including nun Lee Hae-In, poet Koeun, Seoul mayor Park Won-Sun, celebrity Cha In-Pyo, baseball player Park Chan-Ho, and Dankook University Chancellor Chang Ho-Sung sent replies with sincere encouragement and sympathy to her plight. Chancellor Chang Ho-Sung introduced her to a well known Oriental medical doctor in China and helped her to get treatment. She was encouraged by the replies and the world as she started to communicate. However, her pain did not end there. On October 2012, because of severe pain, her legs had to be cut off. After recovering from the precipice between life and death numerous times, she published a book called ‘Shin Ho-Bin’s Calling out Me’ (published by Miraejihyang) last March with her writings from the past several years. This book contains her writings and her father’s efforts and thoughts from the last 10 years. After the book was published, she met various people but in her mind, her inability to finish university was the one thing that left an empty spot in her heart. She had a longing for the university life she could not enjoy in the past, first because of the hard studying from her freshmen year and secondly because of her illness. However, since the university moved from Hannam-dong in Seoul to Jukjeon-dong in Yongin city, she finally had a chance to visit the university again. “At first, I cried a lot and cursed the world. However, as I passed by death’s door many times, I started to think about how to live a real life with the rest of the time I have left. I want to write books and communicate with many others. Since the university I attended in the past is nearby, I really wanted to visit here. I am very happy to be here. It’s like my wish has come true. Not everyone will live a life like me, but I hope you do your best in your given life.” Even though she was so thin and weak due to her long fight against the illness and because she could only drink milk as she could not digest food, a smile did not leave her face. She remembered her day of admission clearly when she was having a conversation with her mentor. She was sending positive energy and hope to us by living her life with her best effort with a big bright smile. Her cheerful and bright voice brightened the surroundings when she took a commemorative picture with law school students and scholars after the university visit. ‘To be cured, you not only have to be honest, but you also need to sincerely admit the current situation without any prejudice. You need courage to face mistakes, stubbornness, anger and even pain. I could submit myself to that reality but when I thought of the way to not cry and strengthen myself against the difficult situations, I could not help but to smile because all I could think of was to endure as much as I could.”

Carrying on the honor of Korea’s first Special Education Department, special education students volunteered at the Disabled Welfare Center during summer vacation. A total of 22 Special Education students from the School of Teaching, including 7 candidates for elementary school teachers and 15 candidates for middle school teachers, have passed the Specialized Teacher Certification Test for 2013. A total of 34 students have successfully passed the test this year. The recent group of 22 students plus an additional 10 students who are employed at national public schools, as well as 2 who are employed at private schools have successfully passed the test this year. Since the Department of Education, Science and Technology has decided to increase the employment of specialized teachers to accommodate the annual increase of disabled students’ education last November, a total of 465 teachers (62 specialized teachers for youngsters, 131 elementary school specialized teachers, and 272 middle school specialized teachers) were selected with a high competency rate of 15 to 1 during the second half of 2013. The first ever Special Education department was founded in Korea in 1971 to educate specialized teachers who can manage students with special education needs due to disability. For the past few years, it acted as a leader in special education development producing numerous specialized teachers as well as teachers working in various education fields. Furthermore, it has been educating professional specialized teachers and special education experts to cultivate improved teachers by cooperating with the special education department of general graduate schools and graduate schools specialized in special education. Meanwhile, special education student volunteers visited ‘Haelim Center’, a disabled welfare center located in Bucheon for 3 nights and 4 days from July 16 to 19. Volunteering at the disabled welfare center is a traditional event of the Special Education department which has a history of more than 30 years of volunteering during every summer vacation. This event not only includes simple volunteering acts such as cleaning the facility or doing the laundry, but also helping disabled people to experience various activities with special programs carried out at different days and times. 50 students of the Special Education department designed group programs by splitting up to 12 groups of 4~5 members during this volunteering event. Disabled people were attracted to the programs like making hand cream, lip balm and sponge cake, folk dancing and nail art activities. An Yoo-Kyung, head of student affairs, who managed these volunteer activities said “Volunteering activities of the Special Education department are very meaningful, because you get to visit a disabled center in person and apply what you learned in your classes. Also, more and more students are joining the activity every year because it makes people feel a sense of accomplishment, because it allows them to develop and teach on their own.”

Foundation of Dankook Global Video Contents Research Center Established to be the Cornerstone for Korea’s Culture and Technology to Enter Hollywood Dankook University opened a research center in L.A. to introduce Korea’s video content and technology to Hollywood. Dankook University held an opening ceremony for the Dankook Global Video Contents Research Center in L.A., which is the home of many movie production companies, in order to study and analyze US’s cultural trends and its current state, and to widen its national and international network. About 100 people including Chancellor Chang Ho-Sung, Dankook Global Video Contents Research Center director Wu Jung-Kwon, L.A. Consul General Shin Young-Sun, L.A. Korean Culture Center Director Kim Young-San, USC ICT (Institute of Creative Technology) Administration General Manager Clarke Lethin, V.P of Gravity Interactive Jay Choi, actor Jimmy Kim, Hollywood Story consultant Dara Marks and 30 other local filmmakers were in attendance. The Dankook Global Video Contents Research Center will manage research on the current state of Korea’s video contents and technology as well as the needs of the US market’s technology. It will perform joint research with Mega Movie Productions and universities on those subjects. Also, it is planning to make movies with US universities by developing global education programs of short and intermediate-term programs that are conducted by Hollywood masters of moviemaking. Furthermore, it will open various Korean American video technology seminars and symposiums to introduce Korea’s outstanding cultural technology to the US.

The Dankook University Soccer Team, Won Second Place in the 44th National Fall Games of the University Soccer League. Due to its team’s effort, it is now aiming to be the National League Champion On August 6, the final game of the 44th National Fall Games of the University Soccer League was held at Taebaek Sports Complex in Gangwon-do. In the blazing sunlight of the afternoon, the complex was being heated up with both universities’ athletes and cheering squads’ passion even before the game started between Dankook University and Soongsil University. Dankook University passed the preliminary league in first place with 2 wins and 1 defeat. Then, they went to the final round after defeating Hanmin University (2-0) in the Round of 32, Halla University (1-0) in the round of 16, Hanyang Univerisity (1-0) in the Quarter finals, and Ajou University (1-0) in Semi-finals. Their final opponent was Soongsil University who defeated Hongik University in the Semi-finals. Dankook University had played with strong defense, but they took second place because they allowed 2 goals to Soongsil University which led to the score of 2-0. This was their first chance to win the fall university league championship game in 32 years, since 1981, but again it had to postpone its championship crown to the next game as it took second place as in the1989 University Soccer League. Although they had to postpone their dream of a championship, their spirit of challenge and passion cannot be measured merely by the score. They may not be the strongest team that can easily win a championship any time, but, they have a passion that can never be measured by score alone. They are constantly doing their best and putting forth every effort to accomplish their goal of being crowned champions. In fact, the Dankook University soccer team has been more like an underdog in the past. Dankook University was the No.1 team in the University Soccer League when it was established in 1976. They were a finalist and a 4 time semi-finalist in the late 1990s. However, in the 21st century, they have not had such good results. They dared to be the top with a special spirit of challenge and passion that all Dankook people carry, however, they didn’t receive much attention as there were other universities with better teams. However, since 2009, the Dankook University soccer team started to make some progress. With its strong teamwork and defensive skills, they became a team that knows how to win. The Dankook University soccer team is entering a new period in its history, a period of winning. The team took second place in this fall’s university soccer league preceded by second place in the National University soccer game (2009) and 1st place in the 1st Korea Football Association U league. Director Shin Yeon-ho is the one that made this possible. Director Shin has taken his various experiences from his professional athletic career and during his 4 years of directing the Dankook soccer team, he has taken them to the top. To prepare for the upcoming matches, athletes are still focusing on their training regardless of this year’s terribly hot weather under the blazing sun. Also, they are catching up the classes that they missed during the semester due to game matches with an intensive study program, which was specially provided by the university for them during the vacation. The eyes of the director and the athletes, who are aiming for the national league championship, are shining as bright as the hot blazing sun in the sky with passion, even if they have to study and train simultaneously.

Develops World’s First Blue AMOLED Element with 30.1% Efficiency Proves Theory of Top Efficiency with Empirical Evidence Dedicated to Improving Consumption Power of OLED Products Professor Jun-Yeop Lee’s (Department of Polymer Science and Engineering) research team has succeeded in developing the world’s first element with a luminous efficiency rate over 30% from the blue element that is used for AMOLED, a widely applied display element for smart phones and devices. The efficiency rate proved to be 30.1% for the blue elements jointly developed by Professor Jun-Yeop Lee’s research team and Professor Chil-Won (an industry-university cooperative research professor), the highest efficiency rate that an OLED element can reach theoretically. This is especially significant for Professor Lee’s research team, since it proved the highest theoretical efficiency rate of OLED elements through experimentation for the first time globally. The results of this research have been posted on the internet breaking news edition of Advanced Materials, a world class academic journal in materials, last June 21 and was acknowledged for its accomplishments. Until now, although elements with efficiency rates over 20% in red and green elements of AMOLED were developed and have been applied to displays, blue elements were only showing around 10% efficiency causing increase in power consumption levels of machines applying AMOLED. To improve such problems, Professor Lee’s research team has been focusing on blue element development from year 2008. Starting with the development of blue elements with 18.4% efficiency in 2009, Lee’s team also succeeded in developing blue elements with 25.4% efficiency, which was the world’s highest efficiency record in the world at that time in 2011. The blue element developed in the recent study, boasting the world’s highest efficiency rate, is made from Indole Pyridine and is expected to significantly contribute to a decrease in power consumption of smart phone AMOLED displays, OLED TVs, and OLED lights. Also, this exclusively developed element is expected to bring domestic production of OLED materials and enhance the competitiveness of the domestic OLED industry. “This research sets a basis for the significant improvement in the increasing power consumption problem, which has been pointed out as a constant problem in OLED related machines, and [that he expects] it will contribute to future OLED market expansion,” commented Professor Lee.

Overseas Volunteer Team volunteers in Cambodia, Laos, and Mongolia The Dankook University Overseas Volunteer Team has spread love and sharing to neighbors in difficult remote areas around the world again this year. 112 members in this year’s team from Jukjeon Campus, divided into two groups, visited Cambodia and Laos for 14 days during the vacation. They visited Siem Reap in Cambodia from June 22 to July 5, and following that, they volunteered in Vientiane, Laos from July 13 to 26. Each overseas volunteer group set up camp respectively at Pray School and Taktok School in Cambodia and at Tanak School and Nukneo School in Laos, teaching mathematics, science, music, art, physical education, and health to local children. In addition, they remodeled and newly painted the worn-out facilities and buildings. Also, centering around the students who participated in last year’s educational volunteer activities, the teams delivered stationery items to the local schools so that students there could enjoy education in a better environment. Cheonan Campus’s team dispatched 107 volunteers to Mongolia, a land of vast plains. Dankook University students worked hard to improve the environment and participated in educating local residents. Also, Dankook students majoring in Mongolian Studies who were studying abroad in Mongolia, along with Korean Department students of National Mongol University joined the volunteer group as interpreters. Especially, the dental medical volunteer team composed of DKU Dental School professors, nurses and prosthetists received high compliments from the locals by providing dental checkups, tooth extractions, and endodontic treatment/prosthetics for the local residents who lived in areas with poor medical facilities. 92 students of Dankook University’s Student Volunteer Team, which has doubled its membership since last year, not only provided volunteer services teaching Korean, English, Science, Physical Education and Art to local residents, but also worked on improving the environment by setting up billboards, fixing water heaters and painting buildings. Volunteers provided educational services to about 350 local children in two separate groups of youngsters and elementary school students. Also, they opened a village party for local residents and introduced Korean traditional food to them. Furthermore, they delivered about 3,000 products including bicycles, clothes, sporting goods and stationery to the local residents and filled their hearts with the warmness of Dankook people.

Studying with Foreign Students on Campus during Vacation 100 Foreign Students and DKU Students in Attendance This is Dankook University during vacation… Contrary to expectations of an empty campus, Jukjeon Campus was filled with students even during the vacation. What catches one’s eye is the proportion of foreign students. Dressed appropriately for the hot Korean summer, they easily associated with each other and with Dankook University students on campus. These are foreign students from Dankook’s sister universities participating in the International Summer School (ISS) operated by Dankook University every summer. Dankook University’s ISS is quickly becoming the driver of the university’s internationalization. ISS, in its 5th year of operation, was held this year from June 24 to August 9, and about 1,000 students including 200 foreign students from sister universities participated. ISS is composed of English Village (an English conversation study program), the Academic Program (academic courses conducted entirely in English), and the Korean Culture Program. ISS is dedicated to building global networks by facilitating the improvement of foreign language skills and cultural exchange by giving students from around the world an environment within which they can associate and share with each other. ISS operates a total of four programs. English Village(EA) is an English language learning program in which university students from DKU’s sister universities in English-speaking countries teach Dankook students. This creates an opportunity for foreign students and DKU students to join each other in classes, meals, and excursions, using English in real-life situations and learning each other’s culture. EV runs for about three weeks and consists of groups of one foreign student and 3~5 DKU students meeting five days a week for two hours of daily classes. Academic Program is a four week academic lecture program conducted entirely in English and taught by professors from overseas sister universities. This program provides 3 hours of daily lectures four days a week and offers a good opportunity for DKU students preparing for overseas study to experience university lectures as they are given in other countries. Intensive Korean Language and Culture Program was developed to help foreign students learn Korean culture and Koran language over a period of about three weeks. International Summer Research Program is mainly conducted for undergraduates and graduate school students who wish to do research on various subjects participating in a research team. It is held for about nine weeks and is executed roughly from the end of June to the beginning of September.

'Main/Branch Campus System' to be changed to 'Dual Campus System' from academic year 2014 Increases global competitiveness with IT•CT in Jukjeon, BT in Cheonan For specialization, 14 new majors added in last 2 years, mainly for BT, humanities, social sciences ‘Drawing New Future of University Development’ Dankook University, Korea’s first 4-year private university which has pioneered models for development of Korea’s higher education by building Korea’s first regional branch campus in Cheonan and by moving the main campus out of central Seoul, has begun a new phase in advancement of its globalization and university competitiveness. Dankook University has been a catalyst in the development of balanced higher education in Korea spanning strong education from the Seoul metropolitan region to other Korean regions by operating its main and branch campuses. Now DKU prepares to implement a campus system that focuses on specialization beginning in 2014. This is the future of DKU, where resources are distributed effectively and capabilities are enhanced through the campus integration and specialization at Jukjeon and Cheonan. Dankook University will suggest a new model of mutual development by finding the strengths of each campus and its respective surrounding environment. One of the core development measures is to maintain balance between majors according to each campus’s specialty and not to simply restructure the university by cutting out less-popular majors and focusing only on the popular majors. Dankook University has been preparing for departmental mergers and abolitions since 2010 to obtain integration approval from the Korean Ministry of Education. While duplicate majors made up nearly 54% of majors previously, the university gradually reduced duplicate majors to 0% in a period of just 3 years. Through this, on June 27, 2013, Dankook University received final approval from the Ministry of Education to convert to the campus system starting in 2014. ‘Enhancing Competitiveness by Specializing Campuses’ ‘Jukjeon Specialized in IT/CT, Cheonan Specialized in Foreign Languages’ Dankook University has integrated its campuses in order to enhance the university’s competitiveness, focusing university competencies starting with specialization of both campuses. Dankook University will put its main administrative facilities in Jukjeon and enhance the global competitiveness of the university by specializing the education and research with IT and CT at Jukjeon Campus and BT and foreign languages at Cheonan Campus. Jukjeon Campus will mainly focus on humanities and social sciences, as well as IT software, applied engineering, and urban environmental architecture, all of which follow the university’s founding ideology, the university’s pursuit of the three Korean academic values of literature, history and philosophy and Dankook’s recent push in the fields of IT (Information and Technology) and CT (Cultural Contents). Cheonan Campus will focus on medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nano sciences and life sciences to lead the next generation in BT (Bio Technology), as well as on foreign languages to create a synergy effect from blending majors and to maximize the university’s global competitiveness by expanding practical education in foreign language. New Majors and Major Merge for Each Campus’ Subject Strength and Specialization Mergers and discontinuations of majors at both of Dankook University’s campuses subjective merge were decided according to the relative strength of the majors at each campus. In 2013, 8 departments in the fields of engineering, humanities and art at Cheonan Campus (Electrical Engineering, Applied Chemical Engineering, Multimedia Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korean Language and Literature, History, Visual Communication Design, and Instrumental Music) merged with duplicate departments at Jukjeon Campus for its IT and CT specialization. Simultaneously, 4 departments in natural sciences at Jukjeon Campus (Chemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, Applied Physics, and Molecular Biology) and 2 foreign languages (Chinese Language and Literature and Japanese Language and Literature) merged with duplicate departments at Cheonan Campus for its BT and foreign language specialization. In 2014, Jukjeon Campus’ English Language and Literature will be merge with the same department at Cheonan Campus, and 4 undergraduate colleges (International Commerce, Business Administration, Computer Science and Engineering, Global Studies) will merge with similar colleges at Jukjeon Campus to complete its subjective integration. Dankook University will support campus specialization by newly establishing majors suitable for each campus’ respective competencies and designated specialization. In 2013, majors in Philosophy and Counseling were newly established at Jukjeon Campus while majors in Psychology, Marine Corps Military Science, International Sports Science, Biomedical Laboratory Science, Physical Therapy and Dental Hygiene majors were newly founded at Cheonan Campus. In 2014, British-American Studies will be added to the roster at Jukjeon Campus while Portuguese (Brazilian), Pharmaceutical Engineering, Display Engineering, Health Administration and Bio-Medical Medical Information Sciences will be added at Cheonan Campus. During the process of the mergers, Dankook University has decreased its freshman admissions by 85 students from 5,030 to 4,945. However, 14 new majors in humanities, social sciences, life sciences, etc., were established over the past 2 years reflecting on advice from industry and the current academic climate. 3 majors (Philosophy, Counseling, and British-American Studies) out of 14 new majors have been or are being added at Jukjeon Campus, while the other 11 majors have been or are being added at Cheonan Campus. BT related academic areas like Biomedical Laboratory Science, Physical Therapy, Dental Hygiene, Health Administration, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Bio-Medical Information Systems, etc., are reflective of Cheonan Campus’s specialty. Preparing for Additional Support for Enhancement of Major Competitiveness Constructing New Administration System to Support Specialization Dankook University is planning to increase each major’s competitiveness by supporting new majors and merged majors with additional finances and administrative support such as new scholarships. Also, DKU is providing various types of support like hiring new full-time faculty members to reinforce research and teaching, operating online video education and smart learning systems to provide educational convenience to students, expanding lecture exchange between campuses, increasing the number of shuttle buses coming on campus, and increasing lecture exchange for popular lectures. Dankook University now operates under a new administration system following the ‘Team and Commission System’ by overhauling the entire university administration and staff employment system from 2013 under the guidance of an external consultancy, leading to a new administrative support system suited to the needs of the recent campus integration. The university has not only merged its policy and planning functions for faster and more effective actions and decision-making, but it also has changed the main administration, college administrations and graduate school administration to team systems, simultaneously establish an effective task management system along with a university-wide customer service center. ‘Setting Long-Term Base for University Development’ Dankook University has prepared its long-term base for university development considering Korea’s eminent student population decrease and the need for augmentation of global competitiveness through the recent campus integration. Now, DKU has decreased wasted investment in major duplication and can effectively invest in financial, administrative and human resources. As a result, the university expects to greatly increase in competitiveness in research and education through expansions in cooperative and integrated research. Also, as the university enjoys better financial sustainability, DKU will ride the momentum of expanding investment as a multi-campus mega-university, creating synergies with external evaluation and financial support programs.

To be researching Leukemia with 60 million won for the following 2 years Hoping to become a world class expert in aging and cancer Sang-hyup Lee (1st semester, masters•doctoral degree program, age 25), a graduate student majoring in Molecule Amalgamation Science has been selected for the Global Ph.D Fellowship, a world class Ph.D support grant offered by the National Research Foundation of Korea. The Global Ph.D Fellowship is a support program of the National Research Foundation that helps students in doctoral degree programs or masters•doctoral degree programs to grow as the nation’s top minds with potential to bring renown to Korea in the future. The fellowship was first introduced in 2011, and this year a total of 200 fellows were selected. Sang-hyup Lee is the first among Dankook University students to be selected. He will be receiving a grant from the government providing a stipend of 2.5 million won every month for the following 2 years for a total of 60 million won. Also, he will receive various benefits such as access to help from counselors and scholars, as well as building relationship with researchers in related fields. We spoke with Lee, who mainly researches aging and cancer subjects. We’ve heard that you are the first to be selected as a Global Ph.D fellow among Dankook University students. How do you feel about that? I didn’t think I would be selected because the fellowship is usually offered to doctoral students only. However, since I had research results built up since my undergraduate years and because I had the support of my mentor professor, Eun-ju Kim, who helped with my up-to-date research patterns and research direction in related fields, I was able to apply with confidence. I am happy to be chosen, and I think I should execute my research with more responsibility. Also, I wish more DKU students could be selected for this program because it supports both domestic Ph.D students and combined masters•doctoral students. I’ve heard you have been writing SCI research papers since you were an undergraduate student. Is that true? I researched breast cancer cell aging. If you add a substance that can give stress to breast cancer cells, you will be able to see a process of cancer cell aging in the early stages. It is well-known that a protein named SIRT1 is active in this stage, but the fact that this protein is active when united with CBX8 was not known at all. I was the first to investigate and proclaim that the proteins SIRT1 and CBX8 interact in the aging of cancer cells. With my results, I published my research paper in Cancer Letters (IF: 4.238), a famous international academic journal on cancer. What is the secret of achieving good research results? I have a tendency to lose interest easily in everything. While thinking about my future career, I participated in the Undergradate Research Program (URP Program) operated by my major department in my 3rd year of undergraduate studies, and this field interested me a lot, making researching fun for me. From my undergraduate times, I headed a lab directly after class and focused on experiments. I think that led to the positive outcome. As a matter of fact, I am still repeating my daily life of coming to the lab at 9 am in the morning and going home after 11 pm. I think it is the same for every researcher, so I believe what they need is consistent interest and passion. What research are you currently working on? I am currently researching new interactivity of the two proteins CBX8 and SIRT1 in the initiation stage of Leukemia, as I thought they may function together in other types of cancer just as they did in the aging of breast cancer cells shown in my previous research. If I can find a new machanism of Leukemia initiation, I believe it will be a huge contribution to Leukemia treatment in the future. What is your future plan? First of all, I am planning to focus on my current research that I am working on with government support. Once I finish the Ph.D program, I am thinking of executing more professional research through a post-doc. My final goal is to become an expert who can stand beside the world famous scholars in my research field.

Recently, Dankook University is focusing on building the university’s competitiveness through interactive exchange by signing exchange cooperation agreements with internal and external organizations. It is promoting a variety of practical programs with contracted organizations, applying the human resources and physical infrastructure of the university. MOU Signed with KONEPA and KGS Dankook University has signed a business contract with the Korea Nuclear Energy Promotion Agency (Head Director Byung-tae Chun). This agreement is to implement an interactive cooperation system for talent-promoting education and to enhance the national perception of nuclear energy. Through this agreement, both organizations decided to execute joint performance to ▲ enhance the national perception of nuclear energy ▲ train and delegate nuclear energy lecturers and hold field studies ▲ conduct joint research on nuclear energy and exchange human resources and physical resources such as technical teaching faculty and ▲ facilitate interactive exchange of research materials and various study support activities. On June 3, DKU signed an MOU with the Korea Gas Safety Corporation (CEO Dae-cheon Chun). Through this agreement, both organizations decided to cooperate in ▲ exchanging professional technology in gas safety ▲ interactive exchange and promotion of professional manpower and ▲ mutual use of educational and research facilities. MOU Signed with Osong Medical Innovation Foundation At 11 am on June 12, Dankook University signed an agreement for the development of the medical bio industry and its talent promotion with the Osong Medical Innovation Foundation at the Grand Conference Room in Cheonan Campus. About 10 related personnel of the university and foundation, including the chairman of Osong Medical Innovation Foundation Yeo-pyo Yoon and DKU President Ho-sung Chang, were present. The agreement includes various cooperative projects for both organizations to lead the medical industry development of the Chungcheong region. Both institutions plan to jointly execute ▲ exchange in human resources for academic and educational activities ▲ sharing of infrastructure in creating industry-university cooperation ▲ interactive use of research development facilities and equipment ▲ support for researchers and student field practice and employment activities ▲ development and operation of talent-promoting programs to lead the creative economy, including joint research in applicable fields. Notably, both organizations have started to discuss practical tasks to establish joint education programs which mainly educate through field study and enforce the research ability of graduate students majoring in medical biology. Dankook University expects this agreement to empower life science specialization projects currently promoted at Cheonan Campus. DKU plans to promote cooperation by actively using life science infrastructure like its medical/dental/pharmaceutical schools, composite hospital, dental hospital and various research centers. “Dankook University is working on various programs to establish the world’s best medical-biology industry-university cluster based on the specialization of BT,” said DKU President Ho-sung Chang. He also proclaimed that “through various cooperative projects promoted by this agreement, we shall lead the development of the medical biology industry which is a powerful growing future business in the Chungcheong region.”

Sports Day for International Students 300 international students at Dankook University joined the event May 11, 9 am - one fine, sunny day on campus. Foreign students started showing up at the gym at Jukjeon Campus. Representing a broad range of nationalities, more than 300 people gathered in the gym. There were smiles and expectations on everyone’s faces as the crowd members greeted each other. They were international students participating in the International Student Sports Day hosted by the DKU Office of International Affairs. The Office of International Affairs held the 1st International Student Sports Day for international students studying at Dankook University at the Jukjeon Campus gym and grand field from 9:30 am to 10 pm on Saturday, May 11. A total of 330 people including international students, exchange students and language learning students studying at Jukjeon and Cheonan Campuses participated. This event was held to give an opportunity for international students to make friends and to overcome the difficulties of homesickness during their overseas study in Korea so that they could gain a sense of belonging while enjoying their experience here. With an opening ceremony marked by GTN (Global Talent Network) performances of PSY’s Gangnam Style and Gentleman, the DKU International Student Association heated up the event from the very start. The Sports Day featured various sports events like dodgeball, basketball, tug-of-war, hurdles, relay race, O/X quiz, samulnori (traditional Korean performance), and balloon-popping. International students had a joyful time participating in the event and meeting new people. After the Sports Day, international students had a chance to watch a movie at Jukjeon CGV sponsored by K-movie Supporters held by Gyeonggi Content Agency and Lotte Cinema. “People had huge fun from the K-pop performance to the sports events,” said Torrin Mike (masters degree student, Politics and Diplomacy), one of the participants. “I would like to thank the university for making this opportunity possible since we haven’t had many chances to gather together even though we all study here at Dankook University. I also heard many students who had a good time at the Sports Day saying they want to become regular students at Dankook University in the future.” “Although this was the first time we have ever held this event, the international students were very satisfied,” said Jae-dong Lee, Director of the Office of International Affairs. He also expressed that International Affairs “will hold the event regularly so that international students studying in our university can build a network and to enforce the global competency of our university.”

The Dankook University LINC Project Group has been selected as the nation’s most outstanding The LINC Project Group achieved top scores nationally among universities in the 1st annual evaluation Dankook University’s LINC Project Group has achieved the highest score of 962.11 (out of a total 1000 points) among 51 universities in the 1st annual evaluation of Leaders in Industry-Univeristy Cooperation (LINC) programs. Dankook University has achieved high scores in creating an environment for promotion of industry-university cooperation and for its active efforts to support activities in this evaluation executed on 51 leading universities in industry-university cooperation nationwide by the Ministry of Education. Notably, DKU was ranked as ‘very outstanding’ after aquiring the highest score, as it achieved 100% of its core accomplishment index goals among 13 indices with 22 criteria standards. As a result, it is receiving 4.7 billion won in the 2nd round of annual national support funds – an amount highly increased from last year’s 3.12 billion won. In addition, a total of 5.85 billion won of business funds will be invested in LINC projects this year, including 1 billion won of university matching funds and 150 million won from Chungcheongnam-do starting from this year. LINC business is a university support program newly established by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (formerly Ministry of Education) to promote industry-university cooperation. So far, the program has granted 170 billion won to 51 selected universities around the nation. This year, the grant funds have increased to 218.4 billion won and will be given to 4 year universities in support of related projects. Cheonan Campus has been selected as an on-site type LINC Project Group in the Chungcheong region, and it has been executing various projects under the goal of setting the standard for industry-university cooperation. It has rasied the percentage of industry-university performance rate through the achievement evaluations of professors, and it has also employed 26 professors who focus solely on industry-university cooperation. It has enforced field focused education and practical classes by introducing the DASAN ICE Undergraduate System, which is an independent industry-university undergraduate system. Moreover, it has established a system for practical education in industry-university cooperation, including internships, field work, capstone design, etc. In addition, to promote field study and increased employment rate of graduates, it has established a cooperation system with 526 participating corporations and is currently supporting student education, mentoring and industry-university cooperative research, industry cooperation consulting, and technical teaching. DKU fully supports LINC projects budgetwise by providing 1 billion won of annual funds and facility-wise by allocating space for LINC projects. As the Dankook Dental Hospital is moving to a new building, the university is building an Industry-university Cooperation Center in the former dental hospital building with renovations to be completed this July, 2013. The Industry-university Cooperation Center will house various centers including the LINC Project Group headquarters and related education centers, industry-university cooperation group offices, technology transfer center, national research center (KIST), design business center and others in expectations of creating a synergy effect. Expensive experiment and test equipement owned by the university, including those useful for research facilities for the university’s family corporations, are expected to move in. The LINC Project Group will expand industry-university cooperation field education by increasing majors that participate in LINC projects in the future, as well as by educating industry workers and fostering convergence education between related majors. Also, it will expand operation of education programs enforcing the ability for employment while regularizing joint research with related corporations and various supporting events. “Since we focused on improving the university’s characteristics to support the promotion of industry-university cooperation in the 1st year of the LINC program, this year’s LINC goal will be to increase performance by focusing on research, mutual use of joint equipment and employment,” said DKU President Ho-sung Chang. “We are expecting BT field specialization projects and infrastructure enhancements at Cheonan Campus to contribute to the medical biology industry, which is a powerful growing future industry in the Chungcheong region.”