Pukyong National University

"The key is to expand local, industry, and university cooperation to nurture talented and create jobs"

- Busan City and PKNU held an ‘Open Campus Meeting’ to communicate with industry-university cooperation on the 30th

△ A view of the 'Open Campus' event ⓒPhoto Lee Sung-Jae (PR Team)

Busan City (Mayor Park Hyeong-Joon) and Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) held an 'Open Campus Meeting' event on the afternoon of September 30th at the Academy Hall on the 1st floor of the Dongwon Jang Bogo Hall, Pukyong National University.

This is an event in which Busan Mayor Park Hyeong-Joon strengthens collaboration between local governments, industry, and universities, and visits university campuses directly to resolve local university crises, meets with young people, college students, university, and business officials, listens to various opinions, and seeks solutions.

The event was held under the theme of 'Designing a new university model for revitalizing local, industry, and university cooperation', the discussion was held for about an hour with Busan city officials including such as Mayor Park Hyeong-Joon and Ko Mi-Ja, director of the Youth & Academy Start-up Bureau and Pukyong National University President Jang Young-Soo, Director Oh Jeong-Hwan of the Pukyong National University's Industry-University Cooperation Foundation, and with representatives of faculty start-up companies, campus resident companies, and student start-up companies in attendance.

Busan Mayor Park Hyeong-Joon said, "In ‘Dragon Valley,’ Busan’s representative industry-academic cooperation complex created by Pukyong National University, about 260 companies currently reside and work, setting a model for local, industry, and university cooperation. In this way, I expect that when universities open their doors and local, industry, and university can cooperate, talented will be nurtured and jobs will be created for youth so that they can have hope."

President Jang Young-Soo said, "Local-industry-academic cooperation is one of the areas that our university place the most importance on, and our university is making great efforts so that university education can lead to the expansion of industrial-educational networks and start-ups. I hope that today's meeting will be the starting point for a new path for local, industry, and academic cooperation."

On this day, Kwon Han-Sang, CEO of NGM (Prof., Materials System Engineering) as a faculty start-up company said, “For technology-based start-ups, I think the timing of investment is really important. It is clearly necessary to expand investment not only in early start-ups but also in promising companies.", and Wu Sang-Wook, CEO of PharmCADD (Prof., Physics) said, "The reality is that in the pharmaceutical and bio industries, manpower is especially concentrated in Seoul and the metropolitan area. I think Busan also needs to build an education center that can nurture good talents in this field."

In addition, a student founder Kang I-Rock, the representative of IROCK company, said, "When I was preparing to start a business, thankfully, I was able to solve many problems through the advice of the professor. I hope that the community where startups can get expert advice will become active." and Choi Eun-Gyo, ltday company CEO, said, "I felt the need for a networking platform where older and younger entrepreneurs can exchange and overcome difficulties."

Meanwhile, Pukyong National University opened its 330,578 m2 Yongdang Campus in Yongdang-dong, Busan to companies, building the largest industry-university cooperation infrastructure in the southeast region and providing customized support. The university's plan is to deploy this event as an opportunity to expand and strengthen the organic cooperation system between local governments, industries, and universities. <Pukyong Today>

△ A group commemorative photo of the participants of the ‘Open Campus Meeting’.

△ President Jang Young-Soo (right) and Mayor Park Hyeong-Joon pose for a commemorative photo in the University President's office.

△ President Jang Young-Soo is speaking at the Open Campus Meeting.