Implementation of 'Global Industry-Academia-Research Collaboration Education' ... Dongmyeong University Leads Campus Innovation

Innovation in Academic System at Dongmyeong University, Expanding 'Local' and 'Glocal' Field Experiences

4-Week Overseas Language Training and Practical Experience for 2nd-Year Students During Semester

Paid Long-Term Domestic Internships and

The spirit of the university is embodied in this single photograph. This Benz, purchased in the 1960s by the late Kang Seok-jin, chairman of Dongmyeong Mokjae and founder of Dongmyeong University, symbolizes the 'Dongmyeong' spirit that aspires to the highest technology and challenges.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Starting from the second year, overseas language training and on-site practical programs begin. Domestic long-term field training even provides compensation to enrolled students. Thorough and meticulous employment education...

Dongmyung University is fully launching university-driven innovation.

Dongmyung University is overhauling everything except its name. To strengthen job experience, the academic system is also being innovated into a field experience and employment linkage enhancement model.

Dongmyung University (President Jeong Hong-seop), which has ranked within the top 10 nationwide for the proportion of students participating in field training over the past five years, is expanding its field education stage both domestically and internationally.

On the 9th, Dongmyung University announced that it will simultaneously implement ▲early-stage global industry-academia cooperation education overseas and ▲paid field training domestically.

This marks the beginning of a dual pursuit to solidify its reputation as an "employment prestigious university" and nurture talents to lead the Fourth Industrial Revolution era from the start of the new year.

The first innovation is global industry-academia cooperation education. For the top 50% of freshmen in the 2021 cohort, an early-stage global industry-academia cooperation education program will be implemented during the second-year semester, combining four weeks of overseas language training and on-site practical experience.

Domestic long-term field training for half of the third- and fourth-year students will be conducted as paid internships. Students will learn on-site while receiving compensation.

By experiencing various tasks and work environments related to their majors, students can develop job competencies and gain practical benefits such as pre-verification of desired employment companies.

President Jeong Hong-seop emphasized, “Through academic system innovation, this is the first attempt by a domestic university for all enrolled students to have vivid experiences in global or local fields through a ‘learning by doing’ approach.”

Shin Dong-seok, Vice President of Strategic Planning (Director of LINC+ Project Group), said, “The implementation of this innovative academic system emphasizing on-site job experience will greatly contribute to further increasing the employment rate of Dongmyung University, which recently recorded the highest employment rate (71.8%) among medium to large-sized general universities with over 1,000 graduates in the Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam regions, reflecting its spirit of challenge and creativity.”

Dongmyung University has maintained a top 10 nationwide ranking in the proportion of students participating in field training over the past five years. Hwang Jung-gi, Director of the Field Training Support Center at Dongmyung University, explained the reason: “Most departments have industry-experienced professors with over 10 years of field experience who provide in-depth career counseling closely tailored to students’ career paths.”

Dongmyung University also operates a rare ‘Field Training Brokerage Hub Center.’ Through this, it shares field training networks not only with universities and companies in the Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam regions but also with those in other regions. Both students and companies have responded positively. Surveys showed 82% of participating students and 96% of participating companies were ‘satisfied.’

Dongmyung University ranked among the top five nationwide in the proportion of students completing entrepreneurship education in both 2018 and 2019. According to a recent survey by a major central media outlet targeting 56 evaluated universities nationwide, KAIST and Hanyang University ranked first and second respectively last year, with Dongmyung University placing fifth.

Dongmyung University’s roots lie in Dongmyung Mokjae. Founded in 1977, the university is rooted in the entrepreneurial spirit of the former local company ‘Dongmyung Mokjae,’ which once ranked first in the domestic business world.

In 2019, Dongmyung University established itself as an ‘employment prestigious university’ by ranking first in employment rate (71.8%) among medium to large-sized (over 1,000 graduates) four-year general universities in Busan, Ulsan, and Gyeongnam.

The Mercedes-Benz vehicle of the late Chairman Kang Seok-jin, displayed in the Dongmyung Memorial Hall inside the Dongmyung University Central Library. This vehicle, which embodied the pinnacle of technology at the time, remains as a symbol carrying the will to nurture talent with the highest technical skills.

The founder of the Dongmyung Cultural Foundation (Chairman Seo Ui-taek) is Kang Seok-jin, former chairman of Dongmyung Mokjae.

The Mercedes-Benz 600 owned by Chairman Kang, which was once used as President Park Chung-hee’s official car for regional trips, has been on display since April last year in the Dongmyung Memorial Hall inside the Dongmyung University Central Library building, after about 50 years.

This vehicle, equipped with a 6000CC V8 gasoline direct injection engine, is a relic carrying the spirit and legacy of Chairman Kang. It is wrong to view it merely as an expensive luxury foreign car of its time.

During a visit to Germany in the early 1960s, when Dongmyung Mokjae’s corporate spirit of “producing only the highest quality products” was fully expressed, this vehicle, one of the few in the world with the best technology, was acquired. It remains a symbol of ‘technology’ and ‘challenge,’ cherished as the spirit of Dongmyung University to this day.

The late founder Chairman Kang Seok-jin practiced a forward-thinking corporate spirit by saying, “Let us become super-wise and super-capable people. Let us produce only the highest quality products,” and built the university that is now Dongmyung University.

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