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"The university used to be a field hospital when the war was going on and has been changed into thislike this".
- Kim Jae-cheol, the chairman of Dongwon Group, the pPrime Mminister of New Zealand and veterans of the Korean Wwar were invited on to a luncheon of appreciations in Pukyong National University.
"The small university which is used to be a field hospital during thein Korean War has been changed into a globalas the globla university, visited by 65 countries and the is now the mecca of marine science. The current prosperity of now is all thanks to the UN veterans and their sacrifices that they made for this land."
On the 26th July, Kim Jae-cheol, the chairman of Dongwon Group, invited John Phillip Key who is the Pprime Mminister of New Zealand, and 120 veterans and their families on 26th July to his former university PKNU which is located in placed on Daeyeon-Dong in Busan. The event was for celebrating the 60th anniversary of the ceasefire of the Korean War; which took place the agreement was on 27th July in 1953. They had a luncheon together as the chairman and president of Pukyong National University welcomed them and appreciated their sacrifices.
Kim Jae-cheol who graduated from the fisheries department of the National Fisheries University of Busan, which was formerly Pukyong National University, in 1958, and he developed Dongwon Group which is aas the huge global corporation which has annual sales of 4 trillion 200 billion won. The National Fisheries University of Busan which the chairman attendedwas in from 1954 to 1958 was an alive page of history what had scar of Korean War.
The buildings in the university werewas used as the field hospital for the injured American and Swedish soldiers for seven years from right after the Korean Wwar finished up untilto 1957, so it hasd a sad history. of being ruined. In addition, this university still has the building "Walker House" which was used as the temporaryl headquarters of the American army. At that time, Walton Walker who was the commander of the eighth US army moved the army’s headquarters to the building in this university on 6th September 1950 to protect communication equipment and command efficiently as they were in danger of losing lines of defense atof Nakdong river, which is now referred to as called as Walker Line.
Kim said that he was studying in poor conditions of buildings because all of the buildings were being used by the American army. However, he mentioned that now the universityplace has been changed to a place where students from 65 countries come to study, so he feels happy to show our developed country as one of global economic powers through every hardship and he feels expressed his appreciation of the to veterans’ noble sacrifices for us. Kim has been working hard as an honorary consul of New Zealand in order to further develop the for relationship between Korean and New Zealand.
This event was one of the tribunal events inviting 12 delegations of UN combatant nations such as New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands which was conducted by the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs. New Zealand dispatched around 6000 soldiers for the Korean War, 41 of them died, and 34 of their bodies are buriedstaying in a peace in the UN Memorial Cemetery.
"I think that the reason how Korea could become a one of famous country in the world, even though it endured hard times, is because of its education system.it had been through hard time is education. I’m sure that many educators in Korea such as Kim Young-Seup lead the development of this country as they lead the change of young people here. I’m expecting that the relationship between both countries will be strengthened with the FTA soon," John Phillip Key, the Pprime Mminister, said on this day.<Pukyong today>
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