"On my first day at DU, I could not find my classroom. So I was puzzled and late for the first class." (An exchange student’s unhappy reminiscence).Every new semester brings many students to Dongguk University (DU) from abroad. But several of them have experienced a great deal of trouble finding the
On June 28th Dongguk University received the sad news that the great film director, Yu Hyun-mok, had passed away. Yu once studied Korean Literature at DU, returning to DU often to give some film lectures as a famous director. Perhaps not too many people have heard of him. However, he holds a very sp
Where does Dongguk rank in the Korean university league table? If you are a DU student, you might have searched for this information on Naver. Usually, the search engine puts DU in 9th place. In a country full of universities, 10th place is quite an achievement. How have we achieved this? It may sug
"Stocks continue to decline; it’s worrying me to death!" This is how Kim Dong-guk, a student of Dongguk University(DU), feels every day after seeing his flow of investment disappear down the drain. He has never been free from worry since he began pouring money into stocks. When he decided to invest,
In these days, many developed countries are trying to deal with growing problems with the environment. Either directly or indirectly, the effects of too much industrialization lie at the root of this. Needless to say, Korea has huge environmental problems of its own. One example of this is the South
Here is a recent headline in a news media: “Kim Jong-il dies!" Did this happen? The answer is ‘definitely not!’ However, such news-grabbing headlines are becoming a frequent feature of today’s media. The sad news is that there are some people credulous enough to believe in such lies. Why is the tast
New York University (NYU), one of the leading universities in the world, resides in New York City (NYC), a city that never sleeps. In recent years, NYU has ranked first among the universities which American high school students want most to enter. Before this, it was just an ordinary university, att
Last year was brutal as an economic and financial crisis engulfed the world. Banks collapsed while stock prices slumped. In short, there was an unprecedented decline in economic activity. Korea was not the exception to this rule. Our government responded with massive emergency measures, but the cris
John T. Lis, a professor from Cornell University USA, has been appointed chair-professor in the Biomedical Sciences Department. His research will concentrate especially in the field of Aptamer.
Pioneer business, supported by the Ministry of Education, is to develop a Fusion source technology and secure international source patents. It has been granted research for six years. The Dongguk University Fusion organization for researching Wave foundation nerve cells has been selected as one of t
Dongguk Ilsan campus’ surface-breaking ceremony was performed on August 17th. The scale of campus will be 15,026㎡. The campus will specialize in the field of medicine.
There was an opening ceremony for "English Cafe" at the Haklim hall on August 26th. It is now open from 11a.m to 5p.m. on weekdays. The cafe closed during the vacation.
A new underground parking lot is currently under construction at Hyehwa Hall. Work on the new parking lot will be completed at the end of December 2011. There will be a basement areas for 451 cars. On the ground level, a beautiful park will be built; this is expected to contribute to a congenial cam
Jeonggakwon has held a charity concert (this year September 25th from 6PM to 8PM) at the Lee Hae Rang arts theatre for the second consecutive year. The money raised through this event will be used to help the poor living in Joong-Gu.
‘Dongguk University’ (DU) was “constituted” as a front-runner university in the field of fusion contents for the next generation of IT, by ministry of Education, Science& ‘Technology’ and ministry of “Knowledge Economy”.DU will be a Hub University for Industrial Collaboration (HUNIC) of Seoul. As a
Standing 180cm tall, a large man in sandals, with curly white hair and a big smile, greets us in fluent Korean. ROBERT BUSWELL, 55, is a distinguished scholar in Buddhist studies at UCLA. But he is more famous these days in Korea for another major role: Dean of Buddhist Studies at Dongguk University
The Student CS Center (main hall, third floor) opened its doors on August 20th. The third floor was remodeled and several centers moved up from the second floor.? Those centers are all related to student needs. However, the Student CS center is a little different from these other centers.? Students
Dongguk University (DU) announced that it will establish two foreign research institutions on campus. One is Institute of Microelectronics Technology, Russia Academy of Science (IMT-RAS). It has highest reputation in “Graphene,” which is a Nano material. Nowadays, the Graphene is studied in all the
On July 21st, there was an inaugural ceremony for the new executive director of Dongguk University(DU), Abbot Jung Ryun.? The new executive director, a head monk at Nae-won-jung-sa temple in Busan, has devoted the past 40 years to helping the poor communities in Korea, especially the young. In this
Last November, our university started preparations to extend its main library building. And on August 11th this year, we had the opening ceremony. ?The new extension floor contains nine hundred seats. It is equipped with two large-sized reading rooms and a notebook computer room - 478 Seats in the f