The HarvestMoon Festival (Chuseok) is one of the most cherished festivals in Korean history. Koreans mark the day by paying homage to their ancestors and celebrating with their relatives. Most people visit their families to prepare food, honor their ancestors, and cherish relatives both living and d

Yeungnam University announced that the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemul (PSPS) recorded its highest acceptance rate ever in 2015’s fall semester with new recruitment of freshmen foreign students. This fall semester, the PSPS recruited 31 students among 277 applicants from a total of 45 cou

Yeungnam University was finally chosen as the ‘University Entrepreneur Center 2015’ as a supervising university. Therefore, YU is supported by a maximum of 2 billion won during 3 years. The ‘Korean Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development’ made this business. The reason why they arranged

Starting in this edition, we will deal with foreign student association’s interview if we can. Because we think that foreign students are important readers for our newspaper and each country’s Association can represent their students. Therefore, The Observer interviewed three members of the YU Vietn

Yeungnam University received a Grade A (the highest grade obtainable)in the '2015 University Structural Reform Appraisal' by the Ministry of Education.The Ministry of Education announced the results of the UniversityStructural Reform Appraisal for 163 Korean universities on August 31th.Accor

Yeungnam University has contracted with China Universities and Governmentin Chongqing city for a memorandum of understanding (MOU). The purpose is to interact with China University. Furthermore, YU enlarges its global partnership with China. The objects ofthe conference are to attract Chinese studen

Many YU students go abroad as exchange students. They go to many other countries to learn English, Chinese, Japanese, French and etc. The Yeungnam Observer met an exchange student and interviewed her about her life abroad. 2013.8 - 2014.5 University of Nebraska at OmahaEnglish Language & Literature,

Yeungnam University’s e-learning center was selected as an outstanding e-Learning center for Daegu-Gyeongbuk area out of the nationwide survey for the third consecutive year, as well as being a leading university in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region. However, YU turned out to have lots of problems regardin

International Center! They have various programs to cultivate the world-wide abilities to YU students. They have already tried to make an effort for students to experience something new. Notably, they are organizing many programs that foreigners and Korean students can do together. Until now, many s

As a result of “Global Saemaul Movement,” YU is now proceeding to create a great sensation internationally. Various major international organizations such like UN, WB (World Bank) and AARDO (Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization), and several NGOs expressed their will to participate. Among them,

The Ministry of Education, including the government, is promoting for the development of all the universities in the country using a variety of methods. Above all, YU’s Institute of Clean Technology was recently selected as the “R & D Research Institute” and is supported by the government through the “College Focus Institute Support Project.”

In Daegu, there are many large concert halls including the Keimyung Art Center, the Daegu Opera House, Kyungpook National University Auditorium and the Chunma Art Center. This is a good opportunity for citizens to enjoy some culture. However, the Chunma Art Center is in the red. Recently, the Chunma

The YU Korean Language Institute is in the building which can be seen from the YU front gate. We can see many foreign students there. They are from 20 different countries, and they study the Korean language and Korean culture there. The YU Korean Language Institute has been teaching Korean to multin

Modern society is encountering many changes with the acceleration of globalization and informatization. About this, the YU Business Incubation Center is actively confronting society's changes to help

Yeungnam University is attracting developing countries. In the 1970s, in Korea, the Saemaul Movement was started for economic growth. Because of this, Korea achieved the “miracle of the Han river” due

There are some controversies about student corruptions like the overspending of Engineering College and the rigged election of the Liberal Arts College at YU in 2013. Now a new controversy about the Y

YU was selected by the Creative Korea (CK) project which promotes regional universities and university specializations. It took effect this year. Also YU got the greatest amount of government support

YU students optionally pay 10,000 won of student fee as they register for the semester. It is written that students who pay the fee can be assigned lockers and participate in YU programs on tuition bi

There are some controversies about student corruptions like the overspending of Engineering College and the rigged election of the Liberal Arts College at YU in 2013. Now a new controversy about the Y

Midterm lecture evaluation was launched at YU last year. However, there was a much lowerparticipation rate of approximately 47% compared with existing lecture evaluation which has about a95% participa