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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Professor Duvernay of the School of International Studies offers an objective view Domestic and international students take \'Korean History and Culture\' class and ‘Korea in East Asia\' class [March 21, 2010] “Korea is a very attractive country. It\'s a country that has traditions and cultural heritages that are more than enough to become the envy of the world. However, just like the old saying that \'no matter how many beads you have, you need to thread for it to become jewelry\', we need to find traditions and heritages and properly present them to the world. I would like you to understand that as I teach Korean history and culture in English, it is a \'process of threading the beads together\'.\" Thomas Duvernay (49, photo) professor at Yeungnam University. Though he is American, he earned his master\'s degree in Korean studies and he lived in Korea for over 20 years and is pretty much a typical Korean. He is a member of the National Archery (Gukgung) Culture Research Association and showed his particular interest in traditional Korean archery by writing a book on national archery (Gukgung), while also appearing on a number of PR materials. In the School of International Studies, that is being offered for the first time this year by Yeungnam University, he will be conducting lectures on Korea such as \'Korean History and Culture\' and \'Korea in East Asia\'. This aims at helping international students who came to Korea to be able to better understand the past, present and future of Korea, while giving Korean students the chance to see Korea from a more neutral perspective. Because students are composed of German, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Polish, French and Korean students, classes are conducted in 100% English. Classes are held twice a week and it alternates between lectures and discussion classes. One day, students listen to the lecture of the professor and on the next, they hold group discussions based on the contents of the past lecture. During the process of holding discussions, foreign students will naturally talk about their country, and Korean students will strive to find what is the most Korean-esque compared to foreign countries in order to help foreign students understand them better. Just like what Professor Duvernay said, it is the \'process of threading the beads together\'. Kwon, Ye-won (20, a sophomore in the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy) said, \"I took this class in order to learn how Korea was perceived by foreign countries, what kind of Korean traditions and potentials there are, etc, from the perspective of a third person.\" She added, \"I learned that \'Korean history\' and \'world history\' had little difference, and under such relationships, I was able to understand Korea better and naturally train myself to be objective.\" <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_011840577491878179 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-06-28_14-30-34_495.jpg\" target=_blank> While these beads are being threaded, his role is to even out the design so that a more beautiful jewel can be made. He stated, \"There are always a risk of chauvinism on the other side of globalization.\" He also emphasized, \"When a nation\'s international stature rises, more objective and neutral standpoint is needed to perceive nation\'s history, culture and potential. For this, it is imperative to see it from various perspectives, and have the process of sharing thoughts, debating and mediating.\" He added, \"universities must provide the opportunity for such processes to be conducted.\" Meanwhile, from this semester Yeungnam University offers the School of International Studies in which all classes are conducted in 100% English. There are currently 9 classes, and there are over 100 international students and around 20 Korean students taking the classes together. From the second semester, the School of International Studies will be reinforced by providing online or video conferencing systems of lectures in prestigious foreign universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Oxford. Students who completed 42 credit units in courses offered by the School of International Studies will, upon graduation, also receive a bachelor\'s degree in International Studies.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> MEST providing financial support for universities with outstanding educational achievements and capacities [March 17, 2010] Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) was selected as the \'Educational Capacity Enhancement Project\' of MEST, and is now securing the most national funding among private universities in Korea. Since adopting the \'Educational Capacity Enhancement Project\' since 2008, it has been selected every year for 3 consecutive years. On the 17th, MEST (the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, minister Ahn, Byeong-man) announced the selected universities for financial support of \'Educational Capacity Enhancement Project\', in which a total of 260 million dollars is to be provided. A total of 29 universities in the Seoul Metropolitan area including Korea University, Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University, Kyunghee University, Hanyang University and Seoul National University were selected, while 56 in provincial areas including Yeungnam University, Kyungpook National University, Pusan National University, Chonnam National University, Pukyong National University and Chungnam National University were selected. Thus a total of 85 universities selected this year will receive an average of 2.95 million dollars per university. Yeungnam University will be provided with 6.1 million dollars, which is the most national funding among private universities in Korea. It received 5.5 million dollars last year. The selected universities can autonomously and strategically invest the funding until the end of February of next year for recomposing educational courses, providing support for educational and lab activities, improving education conditions, etc for improving educational capacities. Yeungnam University is planning to actively use the funds for educational innovation and improvement of research capacities, increasing scholarships, improvement of educational and research environments, development of various employment programs and employment support in order to foster \'Y-type talents\'. Universities to receive financial support are selected according to a formula composed of an objective and quantitative index. Priorities for universities to receive support are determined in order of the score acquired in the formula (educational index formula) composed of the performance and educational condition related indexes of universities. MEST announced that of the 88 universities that received support in 2009, 13 universities (14.7%) were disqualified for the 2010 universities to be supported. 75 universities that received support last year will be receiving support this year as well, and there are 10 new universities to be provided with the support. Meanwhile, universities selected in the \'2010 Educational Capacity Enhancement Project\' must submit a national funding application and business plan by early April.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Teacher\'s desire to help students\' wishes to become the world renowned singers 4 professors including dean Han, Yong-hee pledges to donate a part of salary until their retirement [March 11, 2010] Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Maria Callas... Students dreaming of becoming world famous singers are being helped by professors who have pledged to donate a large sum of money for their students. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_0586830291701874 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-06-10_14-26-37_495.jpg\" target=_blank> On the morning of the 11th, Han, Yong-hee, dean of the Yeungnam University Major of Voice, and Lee, Ui-won, dean of the School of Music visited the office of the university president and pledged to donate 100 thousand dollars for scholarships in their department. Four professors in the Yeungnam University Major of Voice has decided to donate part of their salary until they retire to provide 100 thousand dollars in scholarships. Dean Han, Yong-hee (photo, left) stated, \"In order to become a world renowned singer, students must make great efforts, but they also need strong support,\" while adding, \"We agreed that there is nothing more valuable than seeing our students being active in the global stage. Though it may not be of much material help, we hope that our students will know how we feel.\" Lee, Hyo-soo, president of Yeungnam University stated his appreciation saying, \"With teachers and students joining their minds together, I believe that we will one day see singers from Yeungnam University performing at the La Scala Theatre in Italy.\" <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_044441654160903115 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-06-10_14-27-01_495.jpg\" target=_blank> From left to right: Cho, Gye-hyeon (executive vice-president for external cooperation), Lee, Hyo-soo (president), Han, Yong-hee (dean of Major of Voice), Lee, Ui-won (dean of School of Music)
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<body style=\"margin: 5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 9pt; font-family: gulim;\"> Cooperation work of Kim, Dong-won (senior), Kim, Jung-eun (graduated), Nam, Seung-yeob (professor) Presenting new plans to prevent hacking, published on IEEE academic journal [March 10, 2010] Graduation thesis of undergraduate student of Yeungnam University published on SCI level journal. Kim, Dong-won (28, photo, left), who is on his second semester of his senior year in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, and Kim, Jung-eun (28, female), who works as a researcher for LG Electronics mobile communications department mobile terminal R&D center after graduating in August of last year is in the limelight. <a class=\"imageUtil\" id=\"thumb_0013810765670693892\" onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-06-09_09-53-38_495.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> Their graduation thesis that presented \'Enhanced ARP: Preventing ARP Poisoning-Based Man-in-the Middle Attacks\' (guidance professor Nam, Seung-yeob, photo, left) was published in the February issue of the 《IEEE Communications Letters》, which is the official journal of the IEEE, which is an international organization that is the globally most prominent institute in the electric and electronic engineering sector. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has approximately 400,000 professionals in 160 nations being active as members, and its student membership numbers to 90,000. Because it also has many theses submitted for its academic journal from around the world, it is famous for its rigorous screening theses. Despite this, the graduation thesis of these undergraduates were able to be published in the journal because it presented a whole new approach of cooperation between users. \'ARP\' is an abbreviation of \'Address Resolution Protocol\' and is a protocol that changes the IP address of the host computer to a MAC address. Through cooperation between users, it presented a new concept that hacking can be prevented using ARP, and this was proven through tests. They explained, \"When existing ARP-based hacking prevention methods use certification centers based on encrypted algorithms, it is very dangerous if a center-concentrated server is hacked and falls, but this method makes decentralized administration possible, and is a very simple method that does not require encryption or certification centers.\" In order to enhance the reliability of their demonstration, they conducted thousands of tests for each of the four types of attack scenarios. This not only required a lot of physical time, but also a great amount of perseverance, patience and stamina. Staying up nights at the computer lab was nothing new. Moreover, because it was an approach from a whole new perspective, there were no cases to refer to, and they had to make many trial and errors without having assurance of the conclusion, making them think about giving up several times. However, with the encouragement and advice for test results by their guidance professor Nam, Seung-yeob (35, Department of Information and Communication Engineering), they were able to achieve 100% success rates. <a class=\"imageUtil\" id=\"thumb_04243107574933392\" onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-06-09_09-54-43_495.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"> Their next goal is to take the tests results that were successful in wired internet environments and apply the results to wireless internet environments. Kim, Dong-won who is due to graduate in August explained, \"With the distribution of devices used in wireless internet environments such as iPhones and iPads, hacking methods are becoming more intelligent and more various, and its range of damage is also growing,\" and stated his hopes saying \"I hope to develop security methods that can be easily utilized by anybody in order to prevent the side effects of the digital era, while improving its intended functions.\"
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<META name=GENERATOR content=\"MSHTML 8.00.7600.16535\"> <BODY style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; FONT-SIZE: 9pt; \"> Bachelor\'s degree offered for \'co-major\' in international studies Start of ‘inbound’ globalization [Feb 25, 2010] Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) will be establishing the \'School of International Studies\' in the new semester. The School of International Studies, which is offered for international and domestic students who wish to take the courses as a part of their co-major, will have 100% English lectures. <A id=thumb_07188928116188376 class=imageUtil onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-28_16-10-56_495.jpg\" target=_blank> The School of International Studies will offer 9 classes this semester such as the \'Understanding of the Korean and Key Capital Markets\', \'Korean History and Culture\', \'Environment and Practices of Business in Asia and Korea\', \'Korean Currency Policies and Financial System\', ‘International Relations in East Asia’, ‘Understanding of Current Korean Economy’, ‘Global Economic Issues’, ‘Korea in East Asia’, and \'Everyday Practical Korean Language\'. Lectures will be conducted by Byeon, Jong-guk, Lee, Jae-hoon, Jeon, In (School of Business), Shim, Sang-min (Department of Korean Language and Literature), Park, Chu-hwa, Lee, Byeong-wan (School of Economics and Finance), Jung, Jun-pyo, Lee, Yoo-shin (Department of Political Science and Diplomacy), Thomas Duvernay and Wendy Worthington (School of General Education). Students that completed 42 credit units in courses offered by the School of International Studies will, upon graduation, also receive a bachelor\'s degree in International Studies. On this, Joo, Sang-woo (51, School of Mechanical Engineering), Vice-President of Office of International Programs, explained that \"We aim at attracting outstanding students from abroad actively and creating an environment where domestic students can improve their English skills and have a global perspective without necessarily having to go study abroad.\" This is in part with the internationalization strategy of Yeungnam University that pursues inbound globalization that receives talented students from abroad, as well as outbound globalization that sends talents trained at our school to the world. In particular, with the establishment of the School of International Studies in the first semester, inbound globalization will be offered by relaying or downloading lectures of prestigious foreign schools such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, etc through online video lecture systems in the second semester in order to make the campus a \'size-down global village\'. <A id=thumb_011027529561577304 class=imageUtil onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-28_16-11-21_495.jpg\" target=_blank> Meanwhile, international students enrolled at Yeungnam University as of the second semester of 2009 is 1,008 from 17 different nations, and 598 of them are undergraduate school students.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Study on the \'Baekje King Shrine 百濟王神社’ in Osaka, Tracing the Baekje migrants forgotten in Korea [Feb 23, 2010] \"It was surprising to find that there was the trace of Korean culture in the shrines that are deemed to be the most Japanese among Japanese people while researching. There are still problems in the history between Korea and Japan, and I was happy to provide a stepping stone, however weak, for the proper research on history.\" <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_021561432372141054 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-27_19-07-34_495.jpg\" target=_blank> A Japanese person, who came to Korea to trace the footsteps of the ancient kingdom of Baekje, which is being forgotten by Koreans, earned a master\'s in Korean history. Okasa Wako (64, photo) earned her master\'s degree after completing her studies abroad, which she started at the age of 62, at the 59th graduation ceremony of Yeungnam University. She attended the ceremony wearing a hanbok that her guidance professor Kim, Jung-sook gave her as a present and showed her affection for Korea stating, \"When I first started studying ancient history in Korea, I was shocked how different things were interpreted between Korea and Japan. However, the further I studied I realized that the history of exchange between the two countries was very old, and that the two nations were very close. The Hallyu phenomena in Japan was no coincidence.\" The title of her master\'s degree thesis was \'A Study on Baekje King Shrine\'. She was a teacher at an elementary school for 38 years in Osaka, and she always had a question on why the shrine that she frequently visited with her young students was still named \'Baekje King Shrine\'. The Baekje King Shrine is a shrine for King Gyeonbok, who was the grandson of King Uija, the last king of Baekje, and the shrine is in Hirakata city, Osaka until now. King Gyeongbok came to Japan in the mid 8th century and became the viceroy of this area for helping the Japanese emperor Sungmoo, who was the japanese emperor at that time. Then, in 2000 when beginning interchange with elementary school teachers of Daegu, she became even more interested in Korean-Japanese relations and finally in March 2006, she retired as a teacher and came to Korea in November of the same year as a student. She started a new life after her sixty year life. At the time, her Korean skills was in infancy so she first started at the Yeungnam University Korean Language Institute. For 15 months she concentrated on studying Korean. At the same time, she prepared a study plan for entering graduate school and went to Professor Kim, Jung-sook of the Department of Korean History to explain why she wanted to enroll in graduate school. Finally, she passed Test of Proficiency in Korean and in March 2008, enrolled in Yeungnam University Graduate School of Korean History. She then started to travel between Korea and Japan to begin her studies on the \'Baekje King Shrine\'. In order to answer her questions on why and how the Baekje King Shrine became worshipped by Japanese for over a millenium, she studied Japanese historical materials such as <Kojiki>, <Nihon Shoki> and <Shoku Nihongi>, and other historical records of the \'Baekje King Shrine\'. In results, she found that the Baekje King Shrine became localized through the integration of the culture of royalty and Buddhism of Baekje with the folk religions of Japan, and claimed that it was historical evidence that the spiritual and cultural roots of Japan could be derived from Korea. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_08338136254200127 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-27_19-08-04_495.jpg\" target=_blank> Together with Professor Kim, Jung-sook (right) of the Department of Korean History She now plans to return to Japan and help her pregnant daughter, and she stated \"Korean parents sacrificed everything for their children and the children grew up and either took care of their parents or at least visited their parents frequently, showing that they had close relations unlike Japan. And I was envious of this.\" She added, \"I now plan to be a mother and grandmother, while continuing my studies.\" Also, she stated \"I am very happy that I was able to study and earn a degree even after retiring,\" and added \"It was really difficult for me to translate my thesis into Korean after writing it in Japanese and I felt like giving up. But I was able to complete my course because of the help of Professor Kim, Jung-sook and a number of my fellow students.\"
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\">Agreement with Ministry of Justice, Gyeongbuk-do, Kyowon, SK Telecom, SK Broadband, Center for Multi-Cultural Korea [Feb 17, 2010] <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_04682694143568561 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"../../_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-20_09-17-27_495.jpg\" target=_blank> There are currently 8,500 multi-cultural families within Gyeongbuk-do. Children from multi-cultural families that entered elementary school has grown from 900 two years ago to 2,700 this year. It is predicted that if educational gaps and cultural conflicts which multi-cultural families and their children are suffered are neglected, it will become a big social issue in the future. Accordingly, Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) has stepped up to help the children of multi-cultural families who are marginalized both socially and culturally. It is pursuing the \'Gyeongsangbuk-do Multi-Cultural Family Children Online Mentoring Program\' with the central government, local government, companies and social organizations. \'Online mentoring\' is where a mentor (university student) and mentee (children of multi-cultural families) meet 1:1 through internet video chats to conduct various activities such as education in Korean, basic education, consulting on life and studies, cultural experiences, etc. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_027504239473137015 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-20_09-17-56_495.jpg\" target=_blank> For this, Yeungnam University met with representatives from the Ministry of Justice (minister Lee, Gwi-nam), Gyeongsangbuk-do (governor Kim, Gwan-yong), Kyowon (chairman Jang, Pyeong-soon), SK Telecom (CEO Jung, Man-won), SK Broadband (CEO Park, In-sik), Center for Multi-Cultural Korea (co-president Buddhist Priest Boseon and Kim, Ui-jeong), Maeil Economy Newspaper (chairman Jang, Dae-hwan) at the 12th floor conference room of Maeil Economy Newspaper on the 17th. At this signing ceremony, Jin, Yung, a member of the National Assembly Multi-Cultural Forum (Grand National Party) also participated to pledge support from the National Assembly. In addition, the multi-national choir \'Rainbow Korea\', made up of elementary school children from multi-cultural families of 7 nations held a performance (photo below). <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_08005950532274073 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"../../_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-20_09-18-30_495.jpg\" target=_blank> This mentoring program will be held from March to November. For this, 97 students of Yeungnam University and 3 university students of multi-cultural families will be selected as mentors to provide 1:1 online customized school support and consulting. The university mentors will receive education such as \'understanding multi-cultural societies\' and \'school mentoring for multi-cultural family children\', and provide mentoring for 32 hours per semester. The university mentors will receive educational volunteer service credits and work-study scholarships. 100 mentees will be selected from elementary school students of the lower income bracket among multi-cultural families residing in Gyeongsangbuk-do. The university mentors will help children in areas of their weakness and motivate their will to study, and will act as big sisters and brothers who can talk with and consult the children on their difficulties in school life. At this signing ceremony, Kwak, Chang-hoon (24, male), a sophomore in the Yeungnam University Department of Sociology, represented the mentors and made a speech saying \"There should be no children who are socially discriminated and alienated because of their difference in color and appearance,\" and added \"I hope to be their big brother and always help them to be warmly welcomed in the Korean society.\" Yeungnam University expects to help multi-cultural family children who are facing difficulties in their school lives. In the case of multi-cultural families, because mothers who are not perfect in Korean nurtures the children, they have lack of Korean language abilities making it difficult to adapt to school life. Furthermore, through this program, Yeungnam University aims at establishing a model case for the private-government-industrial-academic cooperation governance for multi-cultural education, and provide an opportunity to promote educational services for multi-cultural family children. In addition, among the \'Global Frontier 10-3-10\' strategy to become the top 10 in the world for 3 areas within 10 years, it is planning to further promote the CVC Plan (Cultural Value Creation Plan) through comparative cultural research. Lee, Hyo-soo, president of Yeungnam University, stated \"In order for our society to become a multi-cultural society, we need to have an open mind about different cultures, and provide legal, cultural, social, economical and educational consideration and systemized support\" while adding \"Yeungnam University will play a pivotal role in this project based on private-government-industrial-academic partnership to make our society a more \'opened society\' and to make \'different\' a new growth engine for our society.\" For the success of this project, Yeungnam University will be in charge of selection and education of mentors, as well as operation and administration, with the Center for Multi-Cultural Korea and supervise outdoor experience events and camping. In addition, it will provide expenses together with Gyeongsangbuk-do to enhance educational performance and for the smooth operation of the project. Furthermore, the Ministry of Justice will provide 200 PCs to children of multi-cultural families for the online mentoring, and is scheduled to support on-site experience based educational programs to help their understanding on the legal culture. Participation of companies is also active and Kyowon will provide a year\'s supply of home-study materials for helping with the basic education of multi-cultural family children, and SK Telecom and SK Broadband will provide free internet services and computer peripheral devices for online education. On this, professor Park, Seung-woo (Department of Sociology), director of the Yeungnam University Multi-cultural Education Research Center, stated \"Through pre-education and the mentoring process, university mentors will have a higher understanding for multi-cultural families and become more sensitive for different cultures, and elementary school students will receive educational services for basic studies in order to grow to become human resources needed in the multi-cultural society,\" and added \"in order to further enhance the effects of learning through online mentoring, we will unfold various events such as offline studying and experience-based programs, and will help to enhance the emotional intimacy between the mentors and mentees and to make online learning more enjoyable.\"
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Establishing a bridgehead to increase exchanges with Australian \'G8\' University of Adelaide, Monash University [Feb 4, 2010] Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-soo) will reinforce student exchange and cooperation with the Australian University of Adelaide. <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_08158811278690357 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-05-14_16-06-05_495.jpg\" target=_blank> Lee, Hyo-soo, who is visiting Australia from the 1st to expand overseas exchange, visited the University of Adelaide and promised to promote student exchange and cooperation between the two universities. (photo) The University of Adelaide (president James McWha, photo, left) is a prestigious school that has 5 of its graduates who won the Nobel Prize. It also has a world-class research lab in the RFID (electronic tags) sector. It is a sister school with Yeungnam University that has conducted academic exchange from October 2004, and also has a student exchange program since 2006. Yeungnam University expects that this visit will further promote academic exchange and student/professor exchange between the two universities, while establishing a bridgehead for expanding exchange with other universities of Australia. Lee is also pursuing establishing sister relationships with Monash University and the University of Melbourne during this visit. Monash University (photo below) is a prestigious school that is ranked in the top 50 world universities, and its MBA program is ranked 1st in Australia and 2nd in Asia. The Personal Development MBA program is ranked second in the world. Furthermore, its biomedicine sector is ranked 37th in the world, and its engineering & information technology sector is also ranked in the top 20 of the world. The University of Melbourne is also a globally renowned school being ranked 36th in the 2009 world university evaluation. Recently, it has focused investments in bio-engineering. It is scheduled to come up with funds amounting to 100 million dollars to purchase high-tech materials for the bio-engineering field, and it also recruits Peter Doherty (immunology) and Bill Hess (microbiology, immunology), who are world famous professors in the biomedicine sector. The University of Melbourne is aiming to become a world-class university in the bio-engineering sector with the help of such faculty. It has also began world-class research on the fusion sector recently. Of course, it is receiving research funding by the government. Yeungnam University is also pursuing the \'Global Frontier 10-3-10\' strategy to become the top 10 in the world for 3 areas within 10 years, through the research on fusion technologies, and thus it is expected that cooperation across the Pacific between the two universities will result in great synergy effects. Meanwhile, Lee\'s visit to Australia is expected to spearhead academic and human exchange between Yeungnam University and the Australian \'G8\' (Group 8) universities. The Australian G8 universities refer to the University of Adelaide, Monash University, University of Melbourne, Australia National University, Sydney University, University of Western Australia, University of Queensland, and New South Wales University, which are the 8 universities leading advanced education in Australia. These universities are ranked in the top 100 in the world, and are rising and major universities of the world.
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> [Maeil News] Feb 1, 2010 Yeungnam University Medical School sent its students to the South Florida University Hospital in Tampa, Florida of the US for two weeks from the 4th to 16th to study overseas clinical practices. This is the third overseas education program that started in 2008. Medical school students received clinical training in the division of infectious diseases, division of pulmonology, neurosurgery, and radiology at a university hospital in the US. This hospital is the third largest in Florida and the 9th largest in the US. Its medical sector is especially famous and is said to be the best among US universities for research and treatment on cancer and dementia. Students who returned from their program at the US university hospital talked about the level of medical school in the US. ◆Treatment took at least 30 minutes <P style=\"FLOAT: right; WIDTH: 312px; POSITION: relative; HEIGHT: 265px\"> ▲Yeungnam University Medical School students who completed their training at university hospitals in the US stated that there was basically no difference in the level of medical care between Daegu university hospitals and that of the US. Kim, Dong-han (23, junior, Yeungnam University College of Medicine) always wanted to experience university hospitals in the US and so he applied to the education program. Unlike Korea, the US has patients with various diseases. There were an especially high number of patients with AIDS and persons with gunshot wounds, which are not easy to come by in Korea. There were also many patients with high obesity weighing 200 to 300 kilograms. Kim stated, \"It was interesting to see patients and diseases that I only saw in books.\" Kim was surprised to see that 1 doctor would see 1 patient for at least 30 minutes. 1 doctor would only tend to about 20 patients per day. It is something that only Korean doctors, who tend to 40 patients in the morning alone, would highly desire. Kim stated, \"medical textbooks say that a reason for failure of treatment is because patients do not follow the instructions of doctors,\" and added \"it seems that the success rate for treatment is higher because of the intimate relationship between patients and doctors in the US.\" Just as he heard, medical expenses in the US was expensive. It cost 1,500 dollars for MRIs in the US. It is double or triple the amount of Korea. \"In a movie that critized the US medical policies, I saw a patient who lost his finger unable to receive surgery because of the high medical expenses. However, they do provide essential treatments regardless of the medical expenses even for people in poverty.\" Baek, Jong-yoon (24, junior, Yeungnam University College of Medicine) said that he was impressed to see that hospital rooms in the US was mostly made for 1 to 2 people. This is because many people share one room in Korea. There are partitions even for intensive-care rooms in the US. The fact that surgery departments were not popular while dermatology and plastic surgery was popular just like Korea also caught his attention. Baek stated, \"Just like Korea, applicants rushed towards certain departments in the US, but unlike Korea which has 4 year residency terms uniformly, the US had different terms for residencies depending on the department.\" Na, Ho-dong (23, junior, Yeungnam University College of Medicine) wanted to see for himself the US hospitals that he only saw in TV and movies. Na experienced surgery and outpatients at five departments including the surgery department, division of infectious diseases, and division of pulmonology. He was especially amazed at patients with gunshot wounds. However, while experiencing the medical system of the US, he felt that Korea\'s medical standards were very high. Na stated, \"I thought medicine in the US would be outstanding compared to the rest of the world, but after experiencing it for myself, it seems similar with that of the university hospitals of Daegu.\" ◆Medical standards similar with Korea Lee, Dong-gyu (25, Yeungnam University Hospital intern) went for training at a US university hospital three years ago. Lee was impressed with American doctors treating patients like their friends. Lee stated, \"The relationship between doctors and patients who made small talk aside from medical issues seemed very comfortable.\" Lee was also envious of the emergency room system of the US. Like Korea, US emergency rooms gave highest priority to myocardial infarction and strokes. However, the US provided concentrated treatment for patients with myocardial infarction or strokes in a separate room. Lee stated, \"The emergency patient treatment system is more advanced than that of Korea.\" However, he did not feel that the medical standards of Korea fell behind the US. Lee is confident that at least for radiology, Korea is more advanced than the US. Lee stated, \"Korea subdivides radiology in different divisions such as nuclear medicine, but the US does not,\" and also added \"Because MRI and CT is expensive in the US, people do not get them, and thus, their ability to make diagnosis falls behind Korea.\" He also stated that the level for surgery was similar in the two countries. \"It hurts to see that patients living in local areas prefer hospitals in Seoul and abroad. After experiencing the medical standards of the US, there was no difference in the skill level. That is why I decided to stay in Daegu for my internship rather than going to Seoul.\"
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<BODY style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; MARGIN: 5px; FONT-FAMILY: gulim; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff\"> Professor Kim, Jong-joo\'s team of the School of Biotechnology discovered the comprehensive DNA information of Hanwoo (Korean native cattle) through genome ciphering Procured source technology information for distinguishing Hanwoo quality and improving productivity [Jan 28, 2010] In order to enhance the competitiveness of our livestock industry in this age of unlimited competition evoked by the signing of the FTA, development of original technologies are more important now than ever, and the green light has been turned on for product distinguishing and productivity improvement for sustained development and assurance of competitiveness for the Hanwoo industry. Recently, Professor Kim, Jong-joo (43, School of Biotechnology) of Yeungnam University became the first in the world to cipher the genetic sequencing of Hanwoo genomes, and thus discovered 3.1 million SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism). <A class=imageUtil id=thumb_06615741764474274 onclick=\"return hs.run(this)\" href=\"http://www.yu.ac.kr/_yboard/cheditor/show_image.php?im=2010-04-21_09-15-07_495.jpg\" target=_blank> Pioneers in Hanwoo genome research (From left to right, Choi, Nam-woo, CEO of Insilicogen, Professor Kim, Jong-joo of Yeungnam university, Professor Kim, Gwan-seok of Chungbuk National University, Myung, Hyun-goon, CEO of Solgent) According to this, as the results of the industry-academic joint research conducted by Professors Kim, Nae-soo and Kim, Gwan-seok of Chungbuk National University, and Insilicogen and Solgent, with the support of the Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation For Technology of Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (director Jeong, Seung), it has decoded the Hanwoo DNA sequence that corresponds to 92% of the standard sequence of cattle registered in the US National Center of Biological Information (NCBI). In addition, Professor Kim\'s team discovered approximately 3.1 million SNP and Indels within the Hanwoo genome sequence. Of them 28% were already revealed in tests and overlaps with the NCBI cattle that were registered in the database for SNP (dbSNP). However, 72% of the SNP were newly revealed. Thus, it is expected that it will provide basic information for research on various genetic changes for other types of cows as well. In the case of humans, SNP contains not only the genetic information that determines individual characters such as figure, body type and temperament, but also contains genetic information that is the basis of genetic diseases such as cancer and hypertension. Thus, it can be said that studies on SNP will be critical for treating customized genetic diseases and developing new medicines. Likewise, sufficient research on Hanwoo SNP must first take place in order to conduct studies on the diseases and economic traits (breeding, growth, meat quality) of Hanwoo, and for conducting grading of Hanwoo and using production history systems. However, only a few dozen SNPs were used in related research until now, and the main reason for this is because the discovery of SNPs in Hanwoo genomes was very limited. Thus, by discovering almost all the SNP in Hanwoo genomes, it is expected to greatly contribute in revealing the genetic secrets of Hanwoo. Furthermore, it is expected to ▲ define the genes related to the breeding, growth and meat quality of Hanwoo so to greatly contribute in the productivity of Hanwoo, ▲ provide basic genetic information in picking out beef, containing the high quality meat and wellbeing elements (unsaturated fatty acid contents, low-cholesterol, CLA, etc) that consumers want, ▲ improving Hanwoo that can be utilized for prevention of global warming and for green growth business by defining genes that can enhance the feed efficiency of Hanwoo and reducing the generation of methane and excrements, ▲ provide basic genetic information on genetic disease studies of Hanwoo and of mad cow disease, ▲ utilize genetic resources that enhance accuracy of Hanwoo beef identification, ▲ and improve the DNA information resources used for production history of Hanwoo and tracing their distribution route. Professor Kim added emphasis stating, \"In order for us to find the superior genomes of Hanwoo by making comparisons and analysis of foreign cows, we must reveal the comprehensive genome information of Hanwoo and develop the way to utilize it, and this study should provide the source information for it.\" Professor Kim\'s team will continue to conduct research to improve the completeness and accuracy of the genome sequence based on the results of this study, and continue define the detailed features of SNP. The results of the study are scheduled to be reported through major theses and webpages. In addition, in order to utilize the results of this study commercially, plans are being made to find the SNP that is linked to better meat quality and tastes of Hanwoo and to commercialize it as DNA chips. The \'next-generation genetic sequencing analysis method\', which was used in this study is to acquire vast amounts of data, by cutting the entire sequence of the genomes randomly to 280bp, and then by sequencing random fragments. Using this, Professor Kim\'s team used Hanwoo genomes of 10 individuals and sequenced DNA fragments that are 17 times that of the genetic sequencing with sizes of the cow genes being 3x109bp. This was then assembled to the standard sequence of the cow registered in the NCBI to analyze the genetic sequence of Hanwoo.
