"Internships Also Mediated"... Dongmyeong University Matches Field Internships Beyond Local Areas

Non-Southeast Region Students ⇒ Brokerage Role for Southeast Region Specialized Industry Field Training
Job Experience More Important Than Specs … Agreement with 47 Industries and Universities

Dongmyung University and Ewha Womans University signed an agreement regarding internship mediation.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] An era has come where job experience is more important than simple specs like alma mater. Dongmyung University is enjoying considerable success with its ‘Internship Brokerage’ project that helps students gain such job experience.

Dongmyung University (President Jeong Hong-seop), which has been matching non-Southeastern region university students’ field internships with Southeastern region specialized companies, is achieving great results by recently expanding the operation of its Field Internship Brokerage HUB Center.

The Dongmyung University Social Customized Industry-Academia Cooperation Leading University (LINC+) Development Project Group (Director Shin Dong-seok) has been operating the expanded and reorganized Field Internship Brokerage HUB Center (Center Director Joo Se-yeon) since last July, focusing on substantial job experience rather than alma mater or simple specs. In the past two months, it has signed agreements with 47 institutions related to this project.

According to meaningful recent survey results, Dongmyung University’s Field Internship Brokerage HUB Center supports the increasingly important ‘job experience’ by matching students from other regions such as Seoul, Gyeonggi, Daegu, Gyeongbuk, and Honam with regionally specialized companies in the Southeastern region.

The Field Internship Brokerage HUB is a unique program by Dongmyung University that brokers non-Southeastern region university students who want to do field internships in the Southeastern region areas such as Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam to specialized strategic industry companies in the region (machinery, automobile, robotics, shipbuilding, logistics, tourism sectors).

It provides non-Southeastern region university students with opportunities to gain diverse job experiences through field internships at regionally specialized industries. It also aims to alleviate manpower shortages in Southeastern region companies.

A human resources officer at Busan New Port said, “There are only a limited number of schools with departments related to port logistics in Busan, so we had no choice but to select students from just one school, but now we can accept interns from multiple schools without regional restrictions, broadening our manpower pool,” adding, “We intend to hire outstanding interns after their field internships.”

One non-Southeastern region university student matched for this semester’s long-term field internship said in a non-face-to-face interview, “My dream was to enter a broadcasting station, but opportunities were rare in the metropolitan area. I am happy to be able to do a field internship at a broadcasting station through the Field Internship Brokerage HUB,” and added, “I will diligently participate in the internship and hope it leads to employment.”

Despite the COVID-19 crisis, Dongmyung University’s Field Internship Brokerage HUB Center has signed agreements over the past two months with 15 non-Southeastern region universities including Chung-Ang University, Sungkyunkwan University, Dankook University, Ewha Womans University, Korea National University of Transportation, Hannam University, Mokpo National University, Hanseo University, Jeonju University, Chonbuk National University, Honam University, Seowon University, and Cheongju University.

To support non-Southeastern region students’ field internships and brokerage, agreements have also been signed with 32 institutions centered on Southeastern region specialized industries such as shipbuilding, logistics, machinery, robotics, automobile, and tourism, including Busan New Port, Busan Robot Business Cooperative, KNN, BEXCO, and Paradise Hotel Busan.

Shin Dong-seok, Director of Dongmyung University’s LINC+ Project Group, said, “Through the Field Internship Brokerage HUB, non-Southeastern region university students will gain diverse job experiences in Southeastern region specialized industries, which will be a great opportunity to spread a regionally industry-demand customized education model.”

According to a survey conducted by Jinhaksa from August 14 over two days targeting 3,212 job seekers (topic: What was the most important spec for employment in the past and recently?), in the past, ‘alma mater’ was considered most important by 1,550 people (about 50%), but recently, 2,223 people (about 74%) consider ‘job experience’ more important.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.