Top award at the 'Global Innovation Management' hosted by the Journalists Federation of Korea. It recognizes YU as leading university in international development cooperation and global social responsibility projects
[April 11, 2014]
YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) received the '2014 True Education Award of Korea' selected by the Journalists Federation of Korea (Chairman Lee Sang-yeol).
YU received the top award in the 'global innovation management sector' at the '2014 True Education Award of Korea' held at the International Conference Room on the 20th floor of the Korea Press Center at 3 p.m. on the 10th.
The annual 'True Education Award of Korea' is hosted by the Journalist Federation of Korea (Chairman Lee Sang-yeol) and sponsored by the Ministry of Education for all universities in the nation. It selects winning universities by evaluating areas such as creation of academic value, creativity and reform of educational policies, global competitiveness, and employment and venture performance.
YU was evaluated highly for leading intellectual Hallyu (Korean cultural wave) through the scientification and globalization of the Saemaul Undong and Saemaul spirit.
In September 2011, YU established the 'Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (Dean Park Seung-woo)' and graduate the first 'Saemaul studies master' in the world in August. It has been playing a leading role to fulfill the university's global social responsibilities. Furthermore, it signed MOUs with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA), Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea Forest Service, Rural Development Administration, Korea Rural Economic Institute, and the Korea Rural Community Corporation to jointly pursue international development cooperation projects and global social responsibility projects using the Saemaul Undong as its business contents. In June of last year, YU also signed exchange and cooperation MOUs with nine national universities in seven Southeast Asian countries to play a leading role in spreading 'Intellectual Hallyu' focusing on Saemaul Undong, Korean language, and engineering technologies. It is further enhancing its international status through various international exchange activities such as professor and student exchange and overseas internship programs with prestigious schools around the world including Michigan Tech and UC Davis of the United States, Tsinghua University of China, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, and Adelade University of Australia.
Thanks to such achievements, YU was selected as an 'international cooperation leading university' from the Ministry of Education in 2013. In March, the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul took first place in the evaluation of 'leader and professor fostering projects for regional development of emerging countries' master's degree program by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), thus receiving 1.2 billion won every year for three years, for a total of 3.6 billion won.
Meanwhile, a total of 12 universities were awarded at the '2014 True Education Award of Korea' including YU, Sogang University (creative convergence education center) and Dongguk University (creative education).
