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YU Gyeongbuk Big Data Center Leads ‘Data-based Local Pending Issues’ Signed work MOUs with four big data centers designated by the Ministry of Science and ICT [December 21, 2018] <Four big data centers in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region such as the YU Gyeongbuk Big Data Center teamed up to solve pending local issues based on data> <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" /> The YU Industry-Academic Cooperation Team Gyeongbuk Big Data Center (Center Director Park Chang-hyeon) signed an MOU with the big data center located in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk regions at the head office of the Gimcheon Korea Transportation Safety Authority on the 20th. This MOU was joined by four institutes in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region designated as big data centers by the MInistry of Science and ICT in May ((1) YU Gyeongbuk Big Data Center (Gyeongsangbuk-do Big Data Center), (2) Daegu Digital Industry Promotion Center Big Data Center (Daegu Metropolitan Big Data Center), (3) Korea Transportation Safety Authority Traffic Big Data Center, (4) Daegu Gyeongbuk Research Institute Spatial Big Data Center). The main contents of this MOU are the ▲ joint excavation of national policy projects for big data in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk regions ▲ information exchange, education and technical support for big data ▲ providing support systems for fostering big data personnel, ▲ sharing data possessed by institutes and joint research, etc.. The four institutes that signed this MOU agreed to utilize the infrastructure, data, and professionals possessed by each institute to solve local pending issues based on data. Furthermore, they will also jointly participate in big data projects being pursued by the government or local authorities to create a leading model for the development of big data in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region. Gyeongsangbuk-do and the Gyeongbuk Big Data Center were designated as big data centers by the Ministry of Science and ICT and it is engaged in various policy projects for promoting regional big data by analyzing regional big data status analysis, establishing mid- to long-term development strategies, and also establishing incubating plans for big data companies and human resources. The Gyeongbuk Big Data Center is carrying out the ‘Small and Medium Business Big Data Utilization Support Project’ supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Agency (NIA) for improving the competence of local big data solution companies and companies that use big data as the supervising institute of the Gyeongbuk IT Convergence Industry Technology Institute and the Gyeongbuk Technopark consortium. It supported the use of big data by selecting 20 small and medium-sized company possessing proprietary data such as big data solution companies and for process, CRM and marketing for companies that use big data, while selecting five outstanding cases. Meanwhile, the Gyeongbuk Big Data Center is planning to spend 200 million won in provincial funding by Gyeongbuk to select 10-20 local small and medium businesses in 2019 to provide support so that they may use big data. It is also planning to put aside 100 million won to support big data education for relevant employees in Gyeongbuk, college students and graduates, and students at specialized high schools.
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President Sur Gil-soo visits the Chengdu University in China to induce international students to pursue multiple degrees in the Republic of Korea. President Sur Gil-soo, one of invited speakers at the International Presidential Forum, gives a talk at the forum in an effort to extend its international exchange partnership [Dec-14-2018] <President Sur Gil-soo speaking at the International Presidential Forum> “To think of the time to see you as students of YU in a couple of years, I am thrilled even now with the feeling this moment is so precious! Though a short meeting with you, I wish you to cherish this moment as a precious memory together with me until we meet again at YU and let us make our dream come true then! See you again(再见)!” YU President Sur Gil-soo stood at the platform of International Education College, Chengdu University in China on the seventh to personally explain merits of YU to students of Architecture & Civil Engineering College which is under the joint operation of both universities. About 100 students of Chengdu University, filled the classroom, introduced themselves in Korean though poor, and earnestly asked the president several questions. They stayed in the classroom even quite some time after the buzz to end the class. The special lecture by President Sur couldn’t stop actually until after the buzz to start the following class. The students had to keep their enthusiasm and expectations in their memorial photos. <A Memorial Photo of New Students of Architecture & Civil Engineering College, Chengdu University> YU President Sur Gil-soo visited Chengdu University, located in Chengdu, the capital city of Sutuan Province, China, three nights four days the sixth to ninth day of December, this year as YU President Sur Gil-soo was invited as a speaker at the International Presidential Forum, hosted by Chengdu University, established in 1978, to celebrate its fortieth anniversary. YU President Sur Gil-soo took this opportunity to meet with the president, professors and students of Chengdu University and personally highlight the international student exchange program of YU in addition to his speech. President Sur actually advertised the exchange program to the students so that they can come to study at YU. Especially, the goal of his visit was to glean an actual achievement of the Joint Collaboration for Abroad Study which has been in operation by YU and Chengdu University since September 2016. The Joint Collaboration for Abroad Study is a core education policy of Chinese government in an effort to make Chinese education advanced and internationalized. This education program is promoted jointly by Chinese and foreign education institutes to educate Chinese students abroad. This preprogram is approved by the Education Department of China and continually supervised by the department. YU received approval of the Education Department of China on ‘Architecture & Civil Engineering College’ to be jointly operated by Chengdu and YU in September 2015. 60 new students joined this college for the first time in September 2016. As of December 2018, a total of 150 students are studying at this college under the education collaboration program. They will join YU so as to further their studies two more years after studying their majors and Korean language three years at the college. They can earn two degrees, one from Chengdu University and the other from YU. Thus, YU is expected to produce its first fruit of this program in September 2019. President Sur had a successful meeting with President Wang Qing Yuan of Chengdu University to extend the education collaboration program, thereby jointly operating the Korean Language Institute and promoting Chinese students, graduating from Chengdu University, to further their studies at YU. President Wang Qing Yuan agreed to a positive support for various suggestions of YU President Sur Gil-soo. He was recommended to serve as a member of the Chengdu University Improvement Policy Committee. All these efforts consolidated their trust and collaboration. <President Sur Gil-soo (left) and President Wang Qing Yuan (right) Standing in front of the information board of Chinese Abroad Education Collaboration in the campus of Chengdu University> The visit of President Sur was an opportunity to extend international exchanges with about 20 universities of 18 countries. This fortieth anniversary of Chengdu University and the international presidential forum provided a place of meeting with presidents of universities abroad. Especially, the speech of President Sur on the contribution of the regional base of the university to the society drew lots of attention and interest from universities. As result, many universities offered exchange collaborations. The speech of President Sur was known to be carried as an article of the Newspaper of Chengdu University, which will surely advertise YU more. He invited Doctor Erwin Neher, an awardee of Nobel Prize in the field of Medicine, who was invited to the anniversary of Chengdu University. Furthermore, YU has been operating ‘2+2 Food Engineering College’ since 2017 collaborating with Tonghua Education University in China. Currently 42 students, having completed two years course, will join YU to further their studies. Hence, the number of students, who will join YU to further their studies under the Chinese Abroad Education Collaboration program, will reach 100 in September 2019.. YU President Sur Gil-soo highlighted the international student inducing program, saying “exports of excellent education courses abroad not only raise the international reputation of the university but achieve two ends because they induce more excellent students as well,” and added “I will step up my effort to induce international students more positively.”
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YU – Zambia – GSDN (global ‘Saemaul’ development network), three parties made business MOU’s. Established ‘Saemaul Economic Development Curriculum’ and Support for spreading of Saemaul Movement Spirit. Requests for teaching ‘Saemaul Movement’ rush in from developing countries abroad such as Tanzania and Kenya. [Dec-13-2018] <On the 12th, Yeungname University, Zambia Embassy in Korea, and Global ‘Saemaul’ Development Network made business MOU’s between three parties. YU President Sur Gil-soo (5th from left) of YU, Ambassador Wylbur Chisiya Simuusa in Korea and Chairman Choi Oe-chool, of Global ‘Saemaul’ Development Network> YU (President Sur Gil-soo) supports the establishment of ‘Saemaul’ Economic Development Curriculum in Zambia, Africa. On the 12th, Ambassador Wylbur Chisiya Simuusa in Korea paid a visit to YU. It was Mr. Ambassador’s second visit this year after his first visit. Mr. Ambassador visited to request for know-how and expertise of YU on ‘Saemaul’ Movement and its international development activities. Ambassador Wylbur Chisiya Simuusa who visited in last July has met with YU President Sur Gil-soo, Director Kim Gi-su of Park Chung-hee Saemaul Graduate School, and Chairman Choi Oe-chool of Global Saemaul Development Network (GSDN) shared academic systems on Saemaul Movement and its international development and discussed mutual collaborations. At this visit, they discussed methods for specific collaboration to share Saemaul Development experience with Zambia. On this day, YU, Zambian Embassy and GSDN made business MOU’s to establish Saemaul Economic Development Curriculum of Zambia University and to teach Saemaul Movement in Zambia. According to this MOU, YU will take the lead together with GSDN in the establishment of Saemaul Movement Curriculum at Zambia University and support economic and cultural exchanges. YU President Sur Gil-soo said “Developing countries visit YU from abroad such as Africa to learn about ‘Saemaul’ Movement” and added “I am sure that accumulated experience and expertise in ‘Saemaul’ Movement and its international developments will be of big help to developing countries. I hope that economic and cultural exchanges and so forth will be extended to various other fields, starting with sharing of ‘Saemaul’ Development experience. Recently requests for teaching ‘Saemaul’ Movement and its development experience are rushing in to YU from countries of Africa. In July, the international cooperation organization LVRLACC (Lake Victoria Region Local Authorities & Counties Cooperation) of three countries (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda) dispatched its delegation to YU to learn experience of ‘Saemaul’ Movement and economic development of the Republic of Korea.
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Winning ‘5 gold prizes, two silver prizes and 1 bronze prize’ to achieve ‘Championship’ three years consecutively. Athlete Kim Ha-neul won the Best Prize, Director Kim Ik-hee won the Coach Prize [Dec-11-2018] The Wresting Department of YU (Kim Ik-hee, Coach) won the championship at the 29th Autumn National University Wrestling Competition, proving the strongest in the university wrestling field by the consecutive three years’ winning. At the competition, held from November 30 to December 4 at the Indoor gymnasium in Cheolwon, the Wrestling Department of YU won 8 medals such 5 gold prizes, 2 silver prizes and 1 bronze prize, etc., achieving the championship of the competition. At the competition, Ahn Jae-yong (21, 3rd year of Sports Department, 57 kg), Kim Ha-neul (21, 3rd year of Sports Department, 70 kg), Mun Jin-woo (18, 1st year of Sports Department, 74 kg), Park Cheol-wung (21, 4th year of Special Sports Education Department, 97kg), Han Hyun-soo (20, 2nd year of Special Sports Education Department, 125 kg) grabbed gold prizes, and King Yong-hak (21, 3rd year of Special Sports Education Department, 79 kg), Ban Chang-whan (20, 2nd year of Special Sports Education Department, 92 kg) grabbed silver prizes, and Gong Ji-min (19, 1st year of Sports Department, 61 kg) grabbed a bronze prize. Especially, Kim Ha-neul who grabbed a gold prize at the 70 kg weight competition won the best prize, and Coach Kim Ik-hee won the coach prize for leading to the championship. In addition, Han Hyun-soo jumped up to the 3rd place in the 1st National Wrestling Team competition to participate in 2019 World and Asian competitions. Coach Kim Ik-hee, who is leading the Wrestling Department at its best days, “trained all wrestlers from 1st year to 4th year” said “ Persistence and hard training of wrestlers result in producing fine fruits”, and expressed his determination saying “We will challenge for 4rth straight championship as well.”
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Supports Stat-up education with Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. Held the 1st Business Start-up launching ceremony for SNS Start-up Academy. 105 students taking the course in September… 58 succeeded in start-ups in Gyeongsan, Andong, and Pohang, etc. Start-ups registered as the family members of YU, supporting ‘Academy-Industry Cooperation Program" [Dec-10-2018] YU supports start-ups of students and citizens through SNS utilization education. On 10th, LINC+ Project Team of YU (Bae Cheol-ho, leader) held the launching ceremony of the 1st Business Start-up Cooperation, SNS Start-up Academy of YU and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province. 80 people such as YU President Sur Gil-soo, Vice Governor Jeon Wu-heon of Economic Department and graduates from the SNS Start-up Project attended the launching ceremony. ‘SNS Start-up Academy’ helps pre-starters, small businessmen, etc. who want to start up a new business. This is a joint project by YU and Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, providing free education to support their start-ups through the use of SNS fitting for the IT technology and mobile environment for start-ups. LINC+ Project Team of YU provided its academic support to Gyeongsan, Andong, and Pohang, etc. from September to November, and 105 graduated from the education course. Till now, 58 of them succeeded in start-ups. On this day, YU conducted a workshop to support the sustainable management of start-ups in connection with the launching ceremony of the 1st SNS Start-up Academy. As 58 graduates of this program registered as the family member, YU will continue its bidirectional Academy-Industry Cooperation program. Team Leader Bae Cheol-ho of LINC+ Project said “YU will be able to contribute to the success of start-ups based on the accumulated know-how and experience”, added “YU will continue standing at the front of the success and activation of regional economy through strengthening its competitiveness and enhancing cooperation of Industry, Academy and Government” Moreover, LINC+ Project Team of YU is now promoting various Academy-Industry cooperation programs such promotion of employment and start-ups and regional academy-industry cooperation, education and support for bidirectional academy-industry cooperation regional businesses, and creation of social value sharing to lead mutual developments in the society. These programs are conducted with the support of government from March 2017 to February 2022 as an effort of the Ministry of Education to provide financial assistance.
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Bazaar held by the Department of Saemaul and International Development, IDEA, and Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul Donated all proceeds to practice the ‘global Saemaul spirit’ [November 29, 2018] Students at YU stepped up to help victims of the earthquake that shook Indonesia in September. Students of the YU Department of Saemaul and International Development and IDEA (International Development Expert Association) and international students at the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (PSPS) held a fund-raising bazaar to support victims of the earthquake in Indonesia. They held bazaars at the ‘YU Cultural Festival’, which is a festival for international students at YU, on November 8 and at the Global Saemaul Lounge on November 19. They met with YU President Sur Gil-soo in the afternoon of the 29th and delivered 1,304,860 won raised through the bazaar stating their intent to help the Indonesian earthquake victims. <Fund-raising bazaar for victims of the earthquake in Indonesia held during the ‘YU Cultural Festival’> The students that hosted the bazaar all study ‘Saemaul’ in undergraduate and graduate school. Events are held every year to share the global Saemaul spirit of industriousness, independence, cooperation, sharing, volunteering and creation. This year, this event was held targeting all YU students to help the victims of the earthquake that hit Indonesia. IDEA Chairperson Park Moon-shik (21, Department of Saemaul and International Development, junior) explained, “IDEA donates all proceeds from bazaars held every year. This year, we organized this bazaar to give courage to the citizens of Indonesia who suffered from an earthquake. Many people participated in our event and we thank them very much.” Student president Dela Reyna Paulyn Alexis (27, Department of Saemaul and International Development, master’s degree third term, Philippines) at PSPS that prepared for the event together with undergraduate students said, “At PSPS, we are learning the Saemaul spirit and are studying hard to become warm-hearted Saemaul and international development experts.” She added, “I am well aware that as efforts to return the aid received from the international community 60 years ago, YU established PSPS and international students like us are given this opportunity. This bazaar was a meaningful event for us to return, however little, what we received from YU.” Students at PSPS also held a bazaar to help the victims of the earthquake in Nepal in 2015 where they gave all proceeds to the Nepalese embassy to fulfill their role as members of the international community. IDEA, which is comprised of students who dream of becoming Saemaul and international development experts, is enhancing their capacities to solve common issues of the global community through various efforts such as internships at international organizations, hosting bazaars, etc. The YU Global Community Coexistence Human Resource Fostering Project Team Director Kim Jung-hoon (professor at the Department of Saemaul and International Development), said, “The global community lives as a single community. We should try to understand the pains of those in our neighboring countries devastated by unexpected natural disasters and work together to overcome such issues. Such bazaar is a place of learning by exercising the global Saemaul spirit of industriousness, cooperation, sharing, volunteering, creation, etc.”
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‘Top 1% citation of thesis’ in math... World-class quality for papers Continuously recognized by fellow researchers around the world for 10 years Published 150 SCI papers in the past 5 years, number of citations reached 13,500 [November 29, 2018] <Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Park Joo-hyun (left) selected as world’s top 1% researcher for fourth consecutive year> YU Department of Electrical Engineering Professor Park Joo-hyun (51) was selected as the world’s top 1% researcher once again. He was selected for this honor for the fourth consecutive year since 2015 and he continues such world-class research. The global information analysis company Clarivate Analytics announced its ‘2018 Most Influential Researchers in the World’, or the list of the ‘Highly Cited Researchers (HCR)’. There were over 6,000 people around the world who were named in the HCR this year. YU Professor Park Joo-hyun was selected for the fourth straight year in the mathematics sector. There were 90 researchers around the world included in the list for mathematics. Clarivate Analytics analyzed the ‘web of science’, which is the world’s most massive academic information database, to select researchers based on the top 1% highly cited papers in each academic sector. He has been continuously recognized from fellow researchers around the world for the past 10 years. This means that the quality of the paper was outstanding. In 2018, over 4,000 researchers in a total of 21 fields such as science and natural science were selected as HCR. Approximately 2,000 researchers were included in the ‘cross-field’ (researchers exhibiting research capacities in multiple fields among researchers who did not meet the criteria for selection in each academic sector in terms of top 1% cited papers in 21 fields) and so worldwide, over 6,000 were selected for the HCR. 22 Koreans were included in the cross-field, thus placing 50 Koreans on the list. Professor Park has been actively engaged in research publishing about 150 papers in SCI academic journals as the main author in the past five years. Among them, 60% of the papers were published in top 10% JCR (Journal Citation Reports) journals. He has been cited 13,500 times as of current. Professor Park’s papers were cited in total 19,300 times in Google Scholar. Professor Park is acknowledged as a global authority in the nonlinear control system analysis using fuzzy theories. In October, he was appointed as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems’, which is a world-acclaimed academic journal published by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). The global academic publication company Springer Nature also paid attention to the research outcomes of Professor Park. At the suggestion of Springer Nature, Professor Park published ‘Recent Advances in Control and Filtering of Dynamic Systems with Constrained Signals’ in September.
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Home repair volunteer club visits homes to help put up new wall papers, flooring and replacing lights Students donate to purchase goods for volunteering and receive support from Hope Bridge “It is more fulfilling as the objective of volunteering is more concrete and clearer” [November 26, 2018] The YU student club, ‘Youngjihoe’ was awarded in the group sector of the ‘1st Korean Residential Welfare Culture Awards’. The ‘Korean Residential Welfare Culture Awards’ selected and awarded organizations and institutes that work on making a residential welfare community and citizens who practiced residential welfare cultures at the National Assembly Library’s main auditorium on November 2. This event was hosted by the Residential Welfare Culture Movement Center and sponsored by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the National Assembly Traffic Committee. Most of the winners this year were part of volunteer centers, organizations, companies and institutes, and only two school clubs including YU were selected. <Youngjihoe volunteer work> Youngjihoe is a home repair volunteer club and is made up of 80 students. They visit homes with poor residential environments in Dong-gu, Suseong-gu and Gyeongsan in Daegu to offer their volunteer services in placing wall paper and replacing floors and lights. Youngjihoe, with the support of the legal disaster relief organization ‘Hope Bridge’, purchases their own goods for volunteer activities with money from the pockets of the student volunteers. The residential areas to receive volunteer services are selected with help from local volunteer centers. Youngjihoe Vice-president Park Sung-joon (23, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, junior) said, “House repair work may be a bit unfamiliar and difficult for students, but members of our club make up teams of about 10 students each and enjoy volunteer activities.” He added, “Thanks to continuously volunteering every month, our skills with wall papering improved significantly.” Youngjihoe engages in volunteer activities every month, whether during the semester or during vacation. About 100 homes were repaired since 2014. About two volunteer activity projects are held every month on weekends and club managers have higher responsibilities having to participate in volunteer activities mandatorily. Youngjihoe President Park Jin-seok (23, School of Materials Science and Engineering said, “Unlike other common volunteer clubs, Youngjihoe has a clear and concrete objective for volunteering. It is very fulfilling as we can see for ourselves the fruits of our volunteer work.” He added, “If you want your college life to be more meaningful, we invite you to come to Youngjihoe.”
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Hosted by College of Mechanical and IT Engineering and held at the YU Cheonma Gym on November 24 Joined by over 100 people in 21 teams including students of the YU LINC+ Project Team Projects given to different teams by converging majors... Expected to improve problem-solving skills [November 27, 2018] The ‘2018 Wish Drone Festival’ hosted by the YU College of Mechanical Engineering was held at the YU Cheonma Museum at 1 p.m. on the 24th. This contest was designed to have students produce drones, which is a major sector in the 4th industrial revolution, to improve problem-solving skills through technological convergence among different majors. Over 100 students in the YU LINC+ project team grouped into 21 teams for this contest. In addition to engineering students in mechanics, electric, electronic, computer, information communication, and robotics, students majoring in industrial design, business administration, statistics, biochemistry, etc. who are interested in drones grouped into teams of 3 to 5 members. They completed their projects by exchanging and integrating knowledge of each other’s majors by teaming up with students from same and different majors. The theme of this contest was ‘automatic flight contest of self-built drones mounted with LED’. The students completed missions for this contest by designing drones, building drones using 3D printers, coding drone flight programs, LED design, and mounting the LED. This contest drew even more attention as various types of drones including the dualcopter, which is a flying object with two propellers that rotate in opposite directions, were submitted. Meanwhile, the YU College of Mechanical and IT Engineering held 10 special lectures including a seminar for the contest for a period of five months including summer break for students to improve their competencies in their majors and to enhance their concentration for the contest.
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Sharing the ‘local Saemaul development’ experiences to developing countries in Asia, Oceania and Africa Over 250 scholars, international development experts, and public employees in the development sector from 27 countries attend International Saemaul academic conference hosted to create a global cooperation network [November 21, 2018] <The 2018 International Saemaul Development Conference was held at the Daegu Interburgo Hotel on the 21st> The 2018 International Saemaul Development Conference was held at the Daegu Interburgo Hotel on November 21 with the theme ‘Local Saemaul Development Experiences from a Global Perspective’. This international academic conference, which was co-hosted by YU (President Sur Gil-soo). Cheongdo-gun (Governor Lee Seung-yul), and Global Saemaul Development Network (GSDN, Chairman Choi Wae-chul/YU Professor) was joined by over 250 people from 27 countries comprised of scholars, experts, and public officials in the development sector. This academic conference that was co-hosted by three institutes discussed plans to implement the global Saemaul Undong focusing on the local Saemaul development cases in Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, Philippines, Papa New Guinea) and Africa (Uganda, Tanzania). Cheongo-dun Governor Lee Seung-yul who hosted this event said, “The 50,000 residents of Cheongdo will do its role as the cradle of Saemaul so that the Saemaul Undong will go beyond Korea and be reborn as a development strategy that contributes to the co-prosperity of the global community.” Cheongdo-gun Council Chairman Park Gi-ho introduced various activities on recycling resources and emphasized the new role of the Saemaul Undong for sustainable development. YU Park Chung Hee Saemaul Institute Director Park Seung-woo said, “Unlike the social mood in Korea, Saemaul Undong is actively unfolding in developing countries around the world. The local development cases in developing countries presented in this conference show how effective our Saemaul development model is in community development sites of various countries in Asia, Oceania and Africa.” He also added, “This event will help share global Saemaul Undong experiences and form a continuous cooperative network and once again confirm our efforts and will to spread the Saemaul development model throughout the world. In particular, Saemaul sharing cases and directions can be examined from a new dimension through this international conference.” Meanwhile, YU President Sur Gil-soo said, “Korea’s development would not have been possible without the Saemaul spirit of hard work, independence, and cooperation, as well as the assistance of the international society.” He added, “Korea’s Saemaul Undong experience offers a very important guideline for developing countries to resolve poverty issues and it is a very effective model for pursuing the various challenges of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).” In addition, Mr. Sur said, “YU has the best experience and infrastructure in the Saemaul Undong research and education sector since the mid-1970s,” while adding, “We will spare no interest or support to utilize YU’s accumulated knowhow to help developing countries overcome poverty and to resolve the joint challenges of the global community.” Lastly, GSDN Chairman Choi Wae-chul said, “The Saemaul Undong experience, which is a UNESCO Memory of the World, will be an important strategic tool for overcoming poverty for developing countries. Korea must not participate actively to overcome the common challenges of the international community and also actively help improve the quality of life for citizens of developing countries.” He also emphasized, that “Above all else, the most important thing is localization through the fostering of human resources.” YU opened the Park Chung Hee Leadership Institute (current Park Chung Hee Saemaul Institute) in 2009, the Saemaul Research Center in 2010, the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (PSPS) in 2011 and installed the Department of Saemaul and International Development in 2015, thereby recently constructing the best infrastructure for education and research on the Saemaul Undong. Meanwhile, Cheongdo-gun, which is known to be where the Saemaul Undong first started, signed an MOU with YU in 2011 and established and operated the Saemaul Research Center and is in charge of the globalization project of the Samaul Undong in the Philippines and Vietnam. The Global Saemaul Development Network (GDSN), which is one of the co-hosts of this conference, is an international NGO that was launched as a foundation in 2015 and it is leading in the formation of a global network to share the Saemaul development experience joined by over 450 members. At this conference, the economic development officer of the Philippines National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) made a presentation on the progress of the Saemaul development project for the sustainable development of Iloilo in the Philippines. Papa New Guinea Saemaul leader Uno Konisimo introduced Saemaul development cases being carried out in Papa New Guinea, while a researcher of the Vietnamese Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSAARD) introduced the effects of supporting the Saemaul Undong with the new agricultural development program of Vietnam. Also, Kakumba Paddy, the vice-secretary general of LVRLACC (Lake Victoria Region Local Authorities Countries Cooperation, introduced the Saemaul Undong model that was applied in Uganda. Malawi Provincial Administrative Rural Development Department Economic Advisor Wilson Bil Nagoli also took part in the discussions. The general discussion was hosted by former YU President Lee Hyo-soo and was joined by former KOICA President Kim Young-mok, UN World Food Programme (WFP) Korea Branch Chief Lim Hyung-joon, Gyeongbuk Technopark Director Lee Jae-hoon, and Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute Senior Researcher Oh Chang-gyun, etc. took part to actively discuss Saemaul development for developing countries from a global perspective.
