Pukyong National University

Officials of fisheries from 20 countries study hard in PKNU
- PKNU holds the fourth entrance ceremony for the International Fisheries-science Cooperation course ... twenty people from twenty countries entered PKNU for this course.

Pukyong National University held the fourth entrance ceremony for the International Fisheries-science Cooperation course in the Leadership Hall which is on the third floor of Dongwon Jang Bogo Hall on 29th August, at 11am.

This course was created by the Pukyong National University Global Fisheries Graduate School (President Jang Young Soo) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). It is a master degree course for supporting developing countries' economic growth by teaching them about Korea's developed fisheries technology.

In this fourth course, twenty people have come to Korea from twenty countries to learn about fisheries technology. They are from: Ghana, Rwanda, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Algeria, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Jordan, Uganda, Iraq, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Tanzania, Palestine, Fiji, and the Philippines.

Most of the students are the officials who are in charge of fisheries policies in their countries. They have taken a Korean language class as a foundation course since July 1st while they have been staying in PKNU. Soon they will start to learn about fisheries studies, studying subjects such as management for marine industry business, food processing, biotechnology, marine production control, fisheries farming, and living resources.

The students should take more than thirteen classes and twenty four credits for fourteen months, and they can graduate when they have a 3.0 grade point average. After that, when they finish additional courses for six months in their own countries, they will receive a Fisheries Master Degree.

Lich Abeja Ribera (34, Philippines, Department of Sea Farming and Resources) who attends this course said he will research the development of fisheries policies in the Philippines throughout this course as his country needs to care marine resources. He said that he hopes to develop a way to increase the income of Filipino fishermen and to contribute to the development of the fisheries industry as he learns Korea's developed sea farming and fishery processing technology.

The International Fisheries-Science Cooperation course has produced eighty graduates from thirty-seven countries so far since it began in 2010.<Pukyong today>