“PKNU’s the pace of the development is ‘unbelievable”
- PKNU was reported on the ‘Dong-a’ newspaper
- The proper grade to enter PKNU is higher than before. PKNU has the number one ranking in the employment rate among the universities. ‘National University as the best of the best’
All of the stories about PKNU ran on the 22nd page in ‘Dong-a’ newspaper on January 25th. ‘Dong-a’ newspaper reported that ‘PKNU is making rapid progress’. ‘Dong-a’ newspaper introduced PKNU’s significant capabilities including the PKNU’s level of the internationalization and the specialization on the 22nd page in a section which title is ‘let’s go to the world and future, visiting the university in 2011’.
△ This is a picture of the newspaper clipping which was run on the A 22nd page in ‘Dong-a’ newspaper on January 25th. The following content is the article which was gotten into ‘Dong-a’ newspaper.
PKNU is the first national university to acquire an accreditation of engineering education… Also, it was gotten an accreditation of trading education for the first time among the other universities…PKNU is called the best of the best among the other universities.
Many students who live in Busan want to enter the PKNU. First of all, PKNU is national university. It means that tuition is very reasonable. In addition, dormitory which is built as the way of the private investment is the best level in the country. Furthermore, Daeyeon campus that is located in Daeyeondong, Namgu, is almost the only flatland in Busan. Also, it takes about only 10 minutes to get the subway station on foot. Moreover, the level of the business reinforcing the education capabilities is the highest among the other local universities. Because of these facts, the support fund by the government is getting increasing. Besides, there are many international students from English speaking countries in PKNU. Then, students’ level of the internationalization is getting better than that of the other universities. Meanwhile, there are many tourist attractions including Gwangalli beach, Oryukdo and Igidae near PKNU. These external and internal environments also help PKNU’s position to enhance by promoting PKNU.
According to the transcript of school records, the students who are going to enter the PKNU got an average 2.43 grades. Even the students who want to major in business administration got an average 1.85 grades. The only 60% of the students live in Busan. Also, about 1208 high school want their students to enter PKNU. However, PKNU has never been neglectful of the management about their students. To prevent the credit inflation, PKNU introduced the system which is called ‘credit relative evaluation system’10 years ago. In addition, PKNU have executed ‘certificating graduation system’, since 2004. This system means that if someone does not meet the requirements which are needed to graduate from PKNU, he or she cannot graduate from PKNU. Moreover, PKNU got an accreditation of engineering education for the first time among the other universities. Besides, PKNU acquired an accreditation of construction engineering, trading business education and business administration. It means that the quality of the education which PKNU provide for students is really high.
The following graphs show the increase of the number of the foreign students, the higher proper record to enter PKNU than before, and the performances of the national projects.
 PKNU is the National University boasting the high employment rate.
PKNU belongs to group A which should meet the following requirements. First, they should produce the graduates more than 3000. Second, they should be a national university. Among the other universities in group A, first place went to PKNU, because PKNU achieved about 65% employment rate. The calculation method was changed from an existed system to a health insurance system last year. Therefore, it has a special meaning. In other words, among the national universities, PKNU is the best, because changed calculation method shows the exact employment rate without any exaggeration. Actually, the 65 graduates of the Department of Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineering entered Samsung Electronics as the probationary employee and the regular workers. In addition, 83.3% of the students of the Department of Ocean Engineering, 82.1% of the students of the Department of Naval Architecture and Marine Systems Engineering, and 80% of the students of the Department of Ecological Engineering succeed in getting a job. Also, there are many graduates who have passed the national exam including Public Administration Examination, CPA test (Certified Public Accountant), and Licensed Tax Accountant test in succession. Even, the head of customs test throughout the country is a graduate at PKNU. The president of PKNU, Park Maeng Eon, said. “Many talented students entered PKNU in 1950s and 1960s which is the first university in Busan. Then they led to modernization of the education. Even though there was a period of stagnation a few times, because of the change of the industrial structure, PKNU could have finally regained its reputation.”
The abilities of individual students are well known throughout the country. Last year, the number of times to be awarded first prize in the national contests was totally 50 times. Even, amazingly, students at PKNU were awarded the grand prize, excellence prize, and participation prize in the 7th Korea DA (Data Architecture) design contest. In addition, PKNU was awarded the grand prize in designing and evaluating of the education business to reinforce students’ capabilities among the other national universities. Moreover, PKNU was selected as the best university after the performance evaluation in 2009. PKNU won 64 hundred million won, and all of the prize money has been using to implement 141 programs including internationalization program.
It is possible for the only PKNU to have the following characteristics.
The field of the earth environment, energy, fisheries and marine, and nano materials and bio materials boasts a world class level. In other words, PKNU can be called spring of the field of fisheries and marine. Therefore, PKNU has been continuing conducting many programs to make specialization that other universities cannot try to do easily.
The most typical program is ‘a light emitting diode (LED) – marine convergence technology research and development business’. PKNU has invested about 39 billion in this program. PKNU is planning to lead to development of the LED industry by combining LED industry which is called green growth business and marine business which is advantage to Busan and Gyeongsangnam-do. The president of PKNU said. “It is investment for the future of Busan which is called the center of the marine city. Only PKNU is leading to this program matchless which the other universities cannot even think about.
The nurture of many professional for developing the part of nuclear energy materials industry is one of PKNU’s specialized industries. There are a few nuclear power plant near PKNU such as Kori nuclear power plant and Sinkori nuclear power plant. PKNU believed that nurturing many talented people for developing the part of nuclear energy materials is more important than constructing many nuclear power plants. That is why PKNU has pushed forward with this industry. Then PKNU built the relevant research centers including the advanced welding center and so on. There is a research town driving the green growth which is located in Dongbaek-ri Gijang-gun, Busan. It is the largest research town in the whole universities. The new technology making the seawater fresh water, the development of the new medicine using the marine lives, the project to develop seaweed fuels are being proceeded. Besides, there are a few research laboratories including Marine Bioprocess Research Center, Center for Atmospheric Sciences and Earthquake Research, and Busan Environmental Technology Center. They are being used for the national projects which help PKNU to develop characteristics PKNU has. Furthermore, PKNU is the only university to study oceans by going around the five oceans using the state of the art vessels such as the Gaya which is the vessel for the practical training, and the Tamyang which is the vessel for the exploration, and so on.
Actually, Oulu University which is located in Finland is a role model of PKNU. This university is a place where many professionals are educated because they are needed as technical professionals of Nokia which is the one of the global corporations. Siemensenetwork is an IT equipments developing company which is linked to Nokia. 70% of the talented people having a responsibility in research and development are trained in Oulu University. The key point of the industrial cluster which this university has wanted to build is the virtuous circle between a university and a corporation. In other words, universities give corporations many creative ideas, and corporations provide chances of the practical training for students of universities. Oulu University has more than 200 business research centers now.
PKNU has decided to apply this system to make an industrial estate like Oulu University. LED center, Small Business Consortium Enterprise to train students, and so on is going up on Yongdang campus which is the one of PKNU’s campuses. In addition, PKNU is planning to build ‘Hanmir Building’ in order to promote engineering research in this coming March. Also, PKNU decided to make Yongdang campus like Silicon Valley in America, and Seoul Digital industrial estate. In other words, Daeyeon campus will be in charge of the education, Yongdang campus will be in charge of the industrial estate. PKNU said the following. “The role of the university is not the only education in advanced industrial technology age. We hope that Yongdang campus will become a global company research center like Nokia.”
About PKNU
At first, Busan National University of Technical which had opened in 1924 and National Fisheries University of Busan which had founded in 1996 combined into Pukyong National University. PKNU consist of Daeyeon campus which is located in Daeyeon-dong, Nam-gu, Busan and Yongdang campus which is located in Yongdang-dong, Nam-gu, Busan. There are 6 colleges including Humanities and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Business Administration, Engineering, Fisheries Sciences, and Environmental and Marine Sciences and Technology. Also, there are 4 graduate schools including Education, Industry, Business, and International Studies. In addition, there are about 28,000 students and 784 professors.
The president of PKNU, Park Maeng Eon said. “I think that the field of fisheries oceanography in PKNU is the best in the world. I believed that Japan may not catch up with us.”
He said to introduce PKNU. “If you want to be talented person in an era of internationalization, it is wise to select PKNU as a place of education.” He who was appointed the president of PKNU in 2008 also said. “I promise that the range of dormitory service and the opportunities of getting employment will expand for all of the students at PKNU to study freely in comfortable environment.
^ After the consolidation, PKNU’s pace of the development is unbelievable
“Actually, the number of the students to be admitted departments and majors at PKNU reduced after the consolidation; on the other hand, the number of students increased about 1500 students. It means that there are few students who want to take time off from PKNU and as well as to leave PKNU to transfer another universities. Also, administration staff and professors have much attention about getting employment and student guidance. In addition, the number of the national research projects has increased from 3 to 19. Moreover, the profits of them have mounted from 2.9 billion to 124.1 billion. In other words, it means that the satisfaction about PKNU, social status of PKNU, and the international competitiveness are getting better than before.
^ After the appointment as a president of PKNU, The most important thing is…
“Internationalization is really important because it makes it possible to compete with universities which are located in capital area and have good financial standing. There are many programs which help our students to improve their English conversation abilities by having the students who come from English speaking countries come to PKNU. For example, one of these programs is the way that one Korean student and one foreign student live together in the same room as a roommate. And then, they should talk to each other in English only to improve their English speaking level. Actually, the number of foreign students who are studying in PKNU is the highest in Busan. About 900 foreign students are studying in PKNU now. In addition, About 800 students in PKNU are going abroad to study. PKNU’s level of the internationalization is the third among 22 public universities and national universities. Also, the number of the foreign professors is the third, the number of the students who are studying abroad is the sixth, and the number of the English lectures is the third among them. It shows the index of internationalization PKNU has.
^ There is a Special Peace and Culture Zone for the United Nations near PKNU.
“It is the only UN Memorial Cemetery in the world. To educate the students as many professors in the field of international relations and cooperation, Education Center for International Peace is going to be built. In this process, many students can acquire the capabilities to be global person. Also, university will be constructed.
^ Public officials who are African are learning Saemaeul Movement which is also called the new community movement about the field of fisheries in PKNU.
“For 4 years, about 117 public officials who are engaging in the field of fisheries from 21 countries including Africa have learned the technology of the fisheries oceanography. Also, another countries including Brazil, Philippines are making a reservation to study in PKNU. PKNU is the only place in Korea to acquire the advanced fisheries oceanography as well as fishing industry, aquaculture industry, fishery processing, and marine bio-materials. Especially, these fields of PKNU have the highest competitiveness. It may be difficult for Japan to catch up with PKNU.”
Written by the reporter, Yoon Hee Gak (toto@donga.com)
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