Prof. Park received the Minister of Education’s Award for 2021 Academic Research Support Project

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Professor In Chan Park, the Director of the Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities, was selected for one of the 50 best academic research support projects by the Ministry of Education in 2021 held online and offline on December 16 (Thu) and received a commendation from the Minister of Education.

The Ministry of Education has been discovering and awarding outstanding achievements every year since 2006 in order to increase the self-esteem of researchers, to encourage academic activities, and to spread and share academic achievements through the Academic and Research Support Project.

This year, the Ministry of Education received 138 candidate projects through public competition and recommendation among 24,276 Academic Research Support Project achievements announced in 2020. After a three-stage comprehensive evaluation, the 50 best achievements (35 cases in the humanities and social sciences and Korean studies fields, 15 cases in the science and engineering fields) were finally selected.

In Chan Park, the Director of the Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities, was awarded the Minister of Education Award in recognition of the outstanding achievements of <2017 Humanities CityProject> (“Life of Coexistence in Teo-Mu-Ni (patterns carved in landscape), the Humanities City Yongsan”).

The is a project promoted by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea since 2014 to promote public interest and promote humanities by distributing the academic achievements of the humanities from the viewpoint of the public. The Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities, led by Director In Chan Park, was selected for the <2017 Humanities City Project> five months after its establishment in February 2017.

The Humanities City Project Team of the Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities conducted 142 lectures in humanities, 93 lectures in humanities experience, and a total of 3 Humanities Weeks, which can cover and highlight the historicity, diversity, and expandability of Yongsan from 2017 to 2020 under the theme of “Life of Coexistence in Teo-Mu-Ni (patterns carved in landscape), the Humanities City Yongsan.”

As a result of the <2017 Humanities CityProject>, Volumes I and II of 『Life History of Yongsan via Landscape』, in which a large number of experts and researchers from the Yongsan area participated, were published and distributed to local residents. Meanwhile, the , etc., organized by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in 2020, provided opportunities for our students to work as local experts. In addition, the <(Yongsan) Regional Cooperation and ProblemSolving> course was opened in the second semester of 2020 as a stepping stone for realizing “Lifetime learning for citizens - Yongsan-gu Office creating a place of learning - Sookmyung Women’s University spreading education”.

Since the selection of the Sookmyung Research Institute of Humanities for the Humanities Korea Plus Project under the theme of in May 2020, it has been accelerating its second year of research as of 2021. It aims to become a hub for producing local experts by developing cooperative relationships with local governments that have been forged through the Humanities City Project.

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