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PKNU Selected for CORE Project
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PKNU Selected for CORE Project
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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
The project team for the CORE, having Professor Chung Hae-jo of the Division of International and Area Studies as the team leader, will be receiving a total of 7.8 billion won over three years.

PKNU suggested the vision of “marine humanities” for the business plan competition, which promotes general research on the marine-centered life of human being based on the university’s tradition in marine and fisheries research and education and the infrastructure of Busan city, the center of the Northeast Asian sea.

The University hopes that the project will lead to developing a humanities-based open multidisciplinary program which corresponds to the local needs and creating an education and research network among ocean cities in the Pacific Rim, together with cultivating three-type talents: Pacific-rim area specialist; field expert in marine humanities industry; next academic generation for marine humanities.  

In line with this, PKNU reorganizes a few departments into five departments relating to global area studies: American studies, Chinese studies, Japanese studies, international studies (on the Latin American region), and international development and cooperation studies (on the ASEAN region). Four interdisciplinary departments are newly created: marine culture management, marine culture contents, marine & fisheries records management, and foreign language for marine business communication. Also an Institute of Global Area Studies and an Institute of Marine Humanities are established.

The CORE team is headed by four departments and a division—Department of Korean Language and Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of History, Division of International and Area Studies—and other departments including Mass Communication, Public Administration, Tourism Management, Oceanography, Marine Sports, Marine Biology, Marine & Fisheries Business and Economics, Information and Communications Engineering, and Statistics also participate. <Pukyong Today>