Pukyong National University

PKNU Selected for CORE Project
- Marine Humanities worked

Pukyong National University was selected for the Initiative for College of Humanities' Research and Education (CORE).

On 17 March, the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea announced that sixteen universities across the country, including PKNU, were chosen for the new project starting this year.

The CORE is a government-funded program which aims to support the development of university’s education program in the field of humanities to preserve and promote the humanities and cultivate well-rounded talents who meet the needs of society. This year, the government will spend 60 billion won for the CORE. The project duration is three years. 

With 46 universities, 17 from Seoul metropolitan areas and 29 from provincial regions, applying for the CORE project, the two-stage evaluation process—document screening, and presentation and a Q&A session—was carried out to select a total of 16 universities.

Nine provincial universities including Pukyong National University, Busan University of Foreign Studies, Dong-A University, Kyungpook National University, Chonnam National University, Chonbuk National University, Keimyung University, Chunbuk National University, Catholic Kwandong University, and seven of capital’s universities including Seoul National University, Korea University, Ewha Womans University, Hanyang University, Sogang University, Sungkyunkwan University and the Catholic University of Korea were named for the project. 

△ Team leader Professor Chung Hae-jo