Our university hosts program inviting youth from Senegal to Korea
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2015-08-19
ISM is the top university of business management in Senegal. Twelve graduate students and a professor were provided with diverse special lectures and cultural events at our university, and a tour of various industries, for twelve days, from July 10 to 21.
ISM is the first private higher education organization that was established in Senegal, in 1992, and is recognized as a major international business university of Western Africa. It has an international MBA program, where students not only from Senegal, but also from over 30 various African countries gather. It is therefore known as Mini Africa, and actively conducts exchange with other universities overseas.
Our university closed a sister agreement with ISM in 2011. President Sun-hye Hwang of our university visited the school in the beginning of July, and she discussed methods of expanding our exchange, through efforts such as a multiple degree system, professor exchanges, and student exchanges. The recent visit of ISM students was also pursued as part of the program of cooperation between the two universities.
The visitors listened to special lectures on diverse themes at our university, including the Korean cultural policy, industry situation, IT situation, the entrepreneurship of global companies, and the children’s education policy of Korea. They also experienced Korean culture through activities such as making a traditional Korean mask or visiting a hanok village, and visited various industries such as a Hyundai automobile factory and a Raemian gallery. The students appeared to be highly satisfied with the program, and said they liked that they were able to experience a variety of significant things.
ISM plans to open an Asia-Africa Center. It has currently opened a Korean language class for students with the support of KOICA, and one of the students who visited recently was selected as a Korean government student, and will attend the HMBA program of our university. Shi-youn Moon, Director of the Korean Culture Institute revealed, “We will continue exchange with African universities to train experts on this region, and expand our exchange in the future to fields that may be useful for the advancement of women.”