The two institutes pledge cooperation to foster young trade personnel in Daegu and Gyeongbuk area. They expect to help raise university graduate employment rate and soothe manpower shortage of the regional small and medium businesses.
[October 8, 2014]

 YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) and KITA (Korea International Trade Association, Chairman Han Deok-su) signed an MOU promising exchange and cooperation between the two institutes to promote employment of college students and to resolve issues with manpower shortage in the trade industry by fostering young trade personnel in the Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas.

 At the YU President's reception office at 11:30 a.m. on the 8th, the two institutes agreed on ▲jointly pursuing a curriculum to raise the perception of college students on small and medium businesses and to resolve mismatching, ▲joint development of curriculum for business-customized employment support, ▲jointly pursuing college internship projects for local small and medium businesses, ▲jointly pursuing various support projects to promote employment in the trade industry, and ▲to cooperate by utilizing the capacities possessed by each institute to share trade-related employment information and to share their human resources pools.

 At the MOU signing ceremony, President Noh Seok-kyun, College of Business & Economics Dean Kwon Young-cheol, Student Capacity Development Office Director Kim Young-tak, and Region-specialized Young Trade Expert Fostering Project Team Director Kim Seung-cheol were present from YU, while KITA Executive Director Kim Moo-han and Daegu-Gyeongbuk Regional Director Lee Dong-bok were also in attendance.

 Executive Director Kim Moo-han said, "YU works closer to associations than any other university in Korea such as carrying out the Global Trade Expert Program together with KITA," and added, "In order to foster trade personnel, in addition to theoretical education, systematic industry-academic cooperation with the industry is important. With this agreement, we will make a successful model for global trade expert fostering education together with YU."

 With this MOU, YU is planning to come up with various programs such as corporate field tours to raise the perception of small and medium companies, college student trade camps, and college internship programs for regional small and medium companies.

 YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, "Industry-academic cooperation with overseas export companies is essential to foster trade experts with practical abilities," and added, "With this MOU, it is expected that students will strengthen their employment capacities and small and medium companies will have the opportunity to procure outstanding human resources."

 In particular, Executive Director Kim Moo-han who visited YU to sign the MOU is a YU alumnus (English and English Literature class of 77) held a special lecture for his juniors at YU under the theme 'Changes of the Global Trade Environment and Our Response Strategy' at Room 209 of the College of Business & Economics for one hour from 2 p.m.