Pukyong National University

"The development of local universities, local industries, and basic sciences should be centered"
In-depth conversation between the president Kim Young-seup and the Korean University Newspaper on Jan.28th

△ President Kim Young-seup. Ⓒ Photo Lee Sung-jae (Public Relations Team)

The university president Kim Young-seup said this in his "In-depth dialogue" with the Korean university newspaper on the 28th. In an interview with the president of the Korean university newspaper Lee In-won on the 3rd floor of the Pukyong National University headquarters on the afternoon of the 17th, it was published in a Korean university newspaper.

The title of the interview on this day was 「"Korea Pukyong National University President Kim Young-seup" ... Domestic college is growing rapidly in quantitative and qualitative ... Strengthen autonomy and promote overseas expansion of university education territory”」.

In this article, "On last December, the president Kim is getting new leadership when he was elected president of the 26th national and public university presidents' council.", and "In particular, as Chairman of the National Association of Public and National Universities, he is devoting his efforts to the development of the national and public universities and their status."

"In spite of the financial pressure, Kim has consistently demanded the suspension and correction of lecturers' laws in the government and the National Assembly in order to maintain the merit of the National University lecturer system," said Kim, "The National University will actively take measures to prevent the confusion of the administration of the lecturer and the administration of the lecturer by reflecting the common matters in the enforcement decree."

When asked about the national unification discussion, Kim said, "I think that integration by government policy is not desirable anymore. In the future, integration between national universities may take place due to special circumstances, but policy integration is unlikely to occur. It is playing an important role as a higher education institution of the municipality where the National University is located."

Regarding the strengths of Pukyong National University, Kim said, "We have a prominent strength in the fisheries and marine area. Since this field has been in existence for 80 years so far, there are many Pukyong people working from the bureaucrats to the industry. We have been playing a leading role as a leader in the fisheries and marine field, so the preference of candidates to enter this field is very high. "

Pukyong National University has also challenged the establishment of a new college of medicine under the government. The new plan of the Ministry of Education's new plan is to operate a specialized curriculum to nurture human resources capable of performing in pharmaceutical research and clinical pharmacy.

"We have optimized conditions for training research pharmacology and clinical pharmacy specialists," said Kim. "Based on that, △ 1st prize in the number of theses per faculty member of the national and public universities in 2017 △ Leiden Ranking 2014 Life Sciences And the first place in the medical field in 2015.

Kim said, "It is advantageous to secure a research and development infrastructure in the pharmaceutical field by establishing and operating a pharmacy laboratory and pharmacy laboratory immediately in Dragon Valley, the largest industrial and academic complex in the Yeongnam area. In addition, it is possible to install and operate a marine natural medicine research center and an herb garden in Pukyong National University Fisheries Science Research Park, the largest and the highest level in the nation, and an innovative new drug research base is fused with marine fisheries materials and land resources." and he added, "We can cultivate world-class convergence pharmacy specialists utilizing the best marine bio-research in Korea." <Pukyong Today>