Pukyong National University

Collected 'All that came to me' for 35 years and opened a personal archive.
Huh Seong-hoe, PKNU Honorary Professor, 60,000 works, including paystubs, are eye-catching.

△ Honorary Professor Huh Sung-hoe presents his records at a personal archive ⓒPhoto by Lee Sung-Jae (PR team)

During his 35 years as a university professor, he opened a personal records museum with all his collections of records.

He is the Huh Sung-hoe (age 65), an honorary professor, who retired from Pukyong National University in August and recently opened the Records Museum at Yongdang Campus, Pukyong National University.

He has kept all the records that came to him for 35 years from March 1984, when he was professor of oceanography at Pukyong National University until his retirement.

This record is organized in 1,200 box file with 200 sheets of A4. These files are tightly embedded in the space of the recording museum (66㎡) at #1 Engineering Building in Yongdang Campus. As many as 50 kind of records can be stored per archive, the total number of records is about 60,000 works.

This collection of records is divided into ▷ records related to Pukyong National University, ▷ records about personal life ▷ records about society ▷ newspapers, magazine scraps.

Among them, the largest number of records is the records related to the Pukyong National University. Letters of invitations and events from university headquarters, the department of oceanography, and the institutions within each school, brochures for the entrance ceremony and graduation ceremony, yearly school calendar, yearly telephone directory, student events records, general election promotion materials, records of meetings at oceanography conferences, and various committees with professor Huh.

He also keeps various commissions, conservative statements, awards, papers, academic presentations, education and student guidance. There is also a correspondence letter from the school meetings where Professor Huh participated (Essay association, photography course, etc.).

In particular, all the lecture records that Professor Huh has been in charge for the past 35 years are carefully organized and even reports submitted by students in class are kept.

Personal life records include living journals for the past 35 years, letters and greeting cards, express bus and train tickets, plane boarding passes, ship boarding passes, tourist attractions, sports tickets, movie and concert tickets, telephone and city gas bill receipts, newspaper subscription fees Receipts, post office usage records, apartment management expenses and receipts, property tax receipts, credit card billing statements, car-related documents and operating journals, financial institution correspondence, alumni correspondence, wedding invitations, presidential and parliamentary elections, and more.

Records related to the conference include academic publications, newsletters, and journals from 6 academic societies (The Korean Society of Oceanography, The Korean Society of Fisheries and Aquatic Science, The Ichthyological Society of Korea, etc.).

Professor Huh said, "In the labs and apartments, records have been piled up like mountains, enduring my wife's glare, and having been organized and stored with the intention that it will help future generations someday."

"I think these records are a valuable trace of my life and a good source of information about the history of the times," he said. "I will donate my collections when there are institutions to preserve and display." <Pukyong Today>