A group of families of Chinese students visited only YU among Korean Universities for the first time.
They were 100% satisfied with YU's educational environment, employment assistance, and other support programs for foreign students.
[July 2, 2012]
Chinese international students and their families pose for a photo with Lee, Hyo-soo, president of YU.
(Visiting family members gave the president Lee, Hyo-soo a calligraphy work which means "Be virtuous and tolerate all things')
"I always wondered how my daughter was doing after sending her to YU two years ago. After visiting I am now convinced that I made the right choice. She will be graduating in a while, so I ask that YU takes good care of her for the next two years."
Chen Jiarong (52) is the dean of the Computer Science Department at Shanghai I&C Foreign Languages College, China. He sent his only daughter, Chen Siying to YU in September 2010. Her dream is to become an interpreter/translator between China and Korea, and so he allowed her to transfer to YU, a sister school of the university. After two years, he came to visit his daughter at YU. His first impression was that it is a school that he can trust to attend his daughter. After touring the YU campus and her room with her, he said that once she earns her bachelor's in the Chinese Translation and Interpretation major in August, he will provide full support for her to study two more years so that she can earn her master's degree.
On the morning of the 2nd, a group of family members for international students from China visited the campus. They wanted a look at the place where their sons and daughters are studying hard to make their dreams come true in a foreign country for as short as a year to as long as five years.
This is the first time that a group of family members of international students studying in Korea visited the university where their children study. The YU Chinese Students Association planned together with Daegu City and the Suseong-gu Health Center to invite about 30 families of Chinese students studying in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region. Of them over 30 family members of 20 teams visited YU.
YU prepared a welcoming event for them and introduced and explained the current status of international students, its various support programs, educational curriculums, employment status, and alumni activities. The families that listened to the briefing said, "We are 100% satisfied. Thank you." Some said that they would strongly recommend YU to their cousins who are interested in coming to Korea to study.
Lee, Hyo-soo, president of YU, had a luncheon with the Chinese international students and their families and said in his welcoming speech, "We are focusing on providing the best support and educational programs for international students so that parents will be convinced that they made the right choice in trusting their children to us. We are also doing all that we can in terms of employment support so that students can achieve the dream they had when the left home." He also added, "Recently, international students who graduated from YU have made local alumni associations in their hometowns at Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and Beijing, China. The full activities of these global alumni associations will also be great help to international students who graduate from YU in the future."
Meanwhile, there are currently about 960 Chinese international students studying at YU. Over 500 of them are undergraduate students, which is the largest in Korea. YU is currently exchanging with 49 Chinese universities including Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Nankai University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and Xi'an Jiaotong University, and has graduated over 1,000 students. They are currently working for provincial governments of China, universities, Korean companies in China such as Samsung, Hyundai Motors, SK, STX, E-mart and Amore Pacific. Some are also in important positions in the financial sectors as well such as in the Korea Exchange Bank's Beijing branch and the Tianjin Bank. Recently, Xin Yue(24), who graduated from the YU School of Economics and Finance, was picked up by Daegu Bank through a competition of 90 to 1 for its Chinese first branch in Shanghai.
