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[YONSEI NEWS] Underwood International College Inbound Globalization Day

연세대학교 홍보팀 / news@yonsei.ac.kr
2006-10-17

The engine of Yonsei's inbound globalization The Underwood International College (UIC) held an event at the President's Residence to welcome the newly recruited foreign faculty and to announce September 19th as "Inbound Globalization Day," which will promote the expansion of productive globalization. Ambassadors and corporate representatives from the students’ various native countries such as China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Canada, Australia, and the U.S. attended in the event. Inbound globalization refers to the strategy of globalizing Korean higher education by transforming the campus into a global community in its own right. This is a major shift from the globalization efforts that were pursued thus far. The UIC is Yonsei's new engine in pursuing inbound globalization. This year, which is its launching year, the UIC successfully formed a balanced student body by attracting 20% of the total 96 students from China, Taiwan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. Moreover, the UIC attracted 11 outstanding foreign faculty members. In addition, with various funds, the UIC invited world-renowned economist Donald Johnston (Former OECD Secretary-General), Dr. Kurt Wüthrich (2002 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry), David Brady (Stanford University Hoover Institution Deputy Director and Senior Fellow) to provide lectures to the students and to expand their international network base. The UIC is relentlessly endeavoring to attract the best foreign faculty and foreign students. Through these efforts, Yonsei hopes to provide Korean professors and students the opportunity to have a multi-cultural experience with the foreign professors and students. We are making our utmost efforts to provide an environment that will allow students to become the top global leaders in their fields when they enter society.