"This Department is on a Winning Streak" ... Dongmyeong University Department of Architecture Wins 8 Awards Including 2 Excellence Awards at Korea Architecture Competition

Holds 25% of All Awardees, Sets New Record for Most Awards Nationwide

90% of Graduates Scheduled for February Next Year Achieve Early Employment Before Graduation

On the 8th, award recipients and their advisors stood in front of the camera at the Korea Architecture Exhibition awards ceremony.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The Department of Architecture at Dongmyung University (President Jeon Ho-hwan) is receiving a flood of honors.

The university's Department of Architecture recently produced two Excellence Award winners and six Honorable Mentions at the Korea Architecture Competition, the most prestigious contest in the country. The Excellence Award recipients, Tae-hyuk Ahn and Seung-ji Kang, each received the Korea Institute of Architects President's Award, the LG Hausys z:in Award, and a prize of 2 million KRW.

This year's Korea Architecture Competition, themed "Invisible Identity," which demands high-level interpretation, selected only 32 works?the smallest number in history. Among them, eight works by Dongmyung University students won awards, accounting for 25% of the total.

The Department of Architecture at Dongmyung University has continued to break its own records with awards including Excellence Awards in 2015 and 2016, Grand Prize and Special Selection in 2017, Excellence Award in 2020, and Special Selection in 2021.

Over the past eight years, the department has produced a total of 11 main award winners, greatly surpassing the average of one awardee per single university architecture department among 19 universities nationwide that have produced winners during the same period.

The Department of Architecture at Dongmyung University has annually sent many graduates to large architectural design firms with fierce entry competition. Even the students expected to graduate in February next year have already been finally selected by nationwide companies such as Heerim Architects, DA Group, Haenglim Architects, Now Dongin, Haema, and Rim Architects, with about 90% achieving early employment before graduation.

The university's Department of Architecture is the only one nationwide to have a multiple major degree program selected by the Ministry of Education. It operates an Architecture Bachelor + BIM major and a BIM specialization education program, with students receiving an average scholarship benefit of 4 million KRW per person annually.

A representative from Dongmyung University said, "Based on diverse student capacity-building programs such as full support for student competitions and joint credit exchange classes with the ?cole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in France, we aim to achieve practical, internationally oriented design education results."

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