Pukyong National University was the first university in Korea to establish an academic tie with Myanmar. | |||
작성자 | Department of External Cooperation | 작성일 | 2013-03-25 |
조회수 | 876 |
Pukyong National University was the first university in Korea to establish an academic tie with Myanmar. | |||||
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Pukyong National University was the first university in Korea to establish an academic tie with Myanmar. The President of Pukyong National University the academic relationship with Hla Htay, who is the President of Dagon university in Yangon, Myanmar. He has opened the international academic seminar twice. On this day, in the ceremony of agreement in the main conference room, Ba Shwe, Vice President of Myanmar, passed along his hope that this agreement would be a step towards further developing the relationship between Korea and Myanmar. Pukyong National University will start to cooperate with Dagon University to support Myanmar’s economic development in academic ways, such as through spatial data and climate change, which are outstanding fields in Pukyong National University. On this day, the Pukyong spatial data specialization graduate school team (Representative Yong-Cheol Suh) introduced analyzing natural disaster danger areas with satellite images, and analyzing land usage skills which is the base of an effective city development plan. Oh Jai-ho, a professor in the Department of Environment Atmospheric Sciences, decided to establish a construction system designed to provide early warnings of natural disasters for Dagon University, in order to improve reaction capability for climate change as Myanmar has been selected as one of weakest countries in relation to climate change. Furthermore, the Pukyong Office of International Affairs (Representative Soon-Hyuck Park) held a university fair in Yangon and introduced the Global Pukyong Scholarship System to students. This scholarship provides large amounts of money to students who are living in developing countries such as Myanmar and Cambodia. It will be offered in the second semester of 2013. It is a unique case to invite students from developing countries to join our undergraduate program. Kim Young-Seup, the President of PKNU, noted that due to the fact that our country received support from other countries when we were developing our economy, our university will start to expand our volunteer work to international societies such as Myanmar. In the past we have also provided fisheries technology education to Africa.<Pukyong today> |