Students of the School of Food Science and Food Service Industry wins Excellence and Consolation Prizes at the ‘2015
High ratings for proposing tourism model integrating their majors
[Sep 9, 2015]
<Students of the School of Food Science and Food Service Industry who won the excellence and consolation prizes at the 2015 Tourism Institute of Northeast Asia International Collegiate Contest>
(from left to right top row, Dean Kim Dong-jin, Lee Jong-gyeong, Tae Sung-min, Park Jong-gook, from left to right bottom row, Park Min-seung, Ha Gu-rin, Yoon Tae-woong, Lee Hyeon-gyeong, Choi Bong-jong
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YU students received the excellence and consolation prizes at the ‘2015 Tourism Institute of Northeast Asia International Collegiate Contest’ with unique Korean tourism ideas.
The winners the School of Food Science and Food Service Industry team comprised of juniors Yoon Tae-woong (23), Park Jong-gook (23) and sophomores Choi Bong-jong (24) and Park Min-seung (22), and the team comprised of senior Yoon Sang-geun (25) and juniors Lee Jong-gyeong (22), Tae Sung-min (23), Ha Gu-rin (22), and Lee Hyeon-gyeong (21).
The Tourism Institute of Northeast Asia International Collegiate Presentation Contest that began in 2011 was established for the development of the tourism industry in Northeast Asia and to foster personnel in the industry. This year’s competition that was hosted by the Tourism Institute of Northeast Asia and sponsored by Daegu Metropolitan City and the Korea Tourism Organization was joined by over 200 students from 67 teams from 40 universities both in Korea and Japan.
This year’s competition that was held under the theme ‘Studies on Plans to Activate Network Experience Tourism’ held the main presentation competition at the Interburgo Hotel (Suseong-gu, Daegu) on August 26 after preliminaries held in July. In result, two teams from the YU School of Food Science and Food Service Industry received an excellence and consolation prize.
The Yoon Tae-woong, Park Jong-gook, Choi Bong-jong and Park Min-seung team took home the excellence prize with the theme ‘Proposal of Tourism Model Linked with the Food Tourism Age-Constructing Regional Networks of Food Towns’. They proposed plans to link regional restaurant stamp tours with the regional food towns, and received good evaluations.
The Yoon Sang-geun, Lee Jong-yeong, Tae Sung-min, Ha Gu-rin, and Lee Hyeon-gyeong team’s presentation was on ‘Network Experience Tourism Activation Plans through Regional Folk Festivals and establishing the <Paldo Folk Village>’, proposing the establishment of a general folk village containing the various cultural features of Korea, for which they won the consolation prize.
Park Min-seung, who received the excellence prize, said, “The School of Food Science and Food Service Industry is a discipline that deals not only with food, but a variety of fields such as management and tourism. I think we had good results as we integrated food culture with tourism taking advantage of what we learned in our major,” and added, “This competition was a good opportunity for us to expand the spectrum of our major and to gain a broader perspective.”
