[June 19, 2014]

 YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) will pursue the 'Challenge 1,000' project to enhance confidence and employment capacities through the health management of students.

 This project was organized to foster human resources with great self-managing abilities by systematically helping the health management of students by the school.

 The ‘Challenge 1,000’ project is a program where students select from running and hiking and completing their 1,000km goal within the four years at school. A semester-program from completing 100km will be carried out simultaneously. Students who meet their goals will be given the 'Challenger 1,000' certificate ('Challenger 100' for semester programs) and students who rank first to third place in each field will be given cash prizes of 200,000 to 1,000,000 won.

 For the success of this project, YU signed an MOU with Beagle (CEO Chang Chi-guk), health and fitness app development company at 3 p.m. on the 19th. YU agreed to operate the 'Cheonma Challenge 1,000 Club' to promote health and fitness of students using 'Triangle GPS', a game-based health and fitness service offered by Beagle.

 With this MOU, YU students can join membership through the YU banner at the Beagle event homepage (http://event.tranggle.com) or download the Beagle's online mobile app 'Triangle GPS' to join ‘Cheonma Challenge 1,000 Club’ for use. All students have to do is run the 'Triangle GPS' app on their smart phone prior to exercising, select the type of exercise, and then press End after they complete their workout to save and upload the data. The running and hiking data registered by students are managed by the YU Health Management Center (Director Doh Joon-young) after being received by Beagle. The exercise records and achievements of students can be searched using their smart phone app at any time and the overall ranking per exercise is available on the Beagle homepage.

 YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, "There is an Arabian proverb that says, a healthy person has all hopes and a person with hopes achieves all dreams." He added, "I hope that through this program students will become a Y-type human resource filled with a challenging spirit and passions to increase their confidence not only through studies, but also via thorough health management."

 Meanwhile, the 'Challenge 1,000' project will be test operated during the second semester of 2014 and launch officially in the first semester of 2015.