Dong-Eui University and Gaya 1-dong Host 'Dong-Eui Youth Let's Build a Village! Big Event'

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Students from Dong-Eui University, utilizing their majors, held a community service event this year in a non-face-to-face format.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Dong-Eui University (President Han Su-hwan) held the “2020 Dong-Eui Youth, Let’s Build the Village! Big Event,” combining major-related volunteer work and a village festival, as a non-face-to-face event on the 12th in Gaya 1-dong, Busanjin-gu.

This event, marking its 7th year, was organized by the Dong-Eui University LINC+ Project Group (Director Lee Im-geon). It was conducted in collaboration with the Dong-Eui University Regional Collaboration Center (Director Yoon Hyun-seo), the Sustainable Community Research Institute, and the Gaya 1-dong Resident Center.

While the Big Event has been held annually with activities such as village safety inspections, village environment maintenance, and major-related medical volunteer work, this year it was conducted as a non-face-to-face visit event due to COVID-19.

The Department of International Tourism Management at Dong-Eui University produced desk calendars using photos of Gaya 1-dong. The Departments of Social Welfare and Fire and Disaster Administration, along with the Busanjin-gu Senior Club, prepared winter supplies (thermal socks, hot packs), quarantine supplies (hand sanitizers, KF-94 masks, hand sanitizing tissues), portable fire extinguishers, and pain relief patches, which were delivered to 214 households including basic livelihood security recipients, single-parent families, and fire-vulnerable households in Gaya 1-dong.

The delivery of goods involved 22 students from 11 clubs including Adlib (Department of Library and Information Science), Duco (Department of Social Welfare), Hapsim (Department of Fire and Disaster Administration), San24-1 (Department of Korean Language and Literature), Purple Ocean (Department of International Tourism Management), Hospitale (Department of Hotel and Convention Management), Donguibogam Research Society (Department of Korean Medicine), Masil (Department of Architecture), Horaengi Volunteer Group (Department of Architecture), UEC (Department of Urban Engineering), and 24frame (Department of Digital Contents), along with faculty advisors (Professors Kim Hyun-ji, Yang Jae-hyuk, Yoon Ji-young, Lee Dal-byeol, and Lee Mi-ra), and three village community leaders.

Yoon Hyun-seo, Director of the Dong-Eui University Regional Collaboration Center, expressed regret, saying, “The Big Event is originally intended to be held as a face-to-face event with local residents, but this year, due to COVID-19, it was changed to a non-face-to-face method to ensure the safety of village residents and to support daily necessities and safety supplies.”

Since 2014, Dong-Eui University has been operating the “Dong-Eui Youth, Let’s Build the Village! Big Event” by planning village festivals jointly with village resident councils as part of urban regeneration projects in Cheolgil Village in Gaegum-dong, Hocheon Village in Beomcheon-dong, and Anchang Village.

For the promotion of local residents’ health, living safety, and digital education, the university has been operating programs such as “Healthy 100 Years, Harmony Festival” and the “Dong-Eui Dongrak Project” since 2018 through collaboration with related local organizations.

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