Pukyong National University
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| Established | 1996 |
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| President | Yun Soo Mok |
| Faculty | 544 |
| Students | 26,000 |
| Location | Busan, South Korea |
| Website | http://www.pknu.ac.kr/ |
| Pukyong National University | |
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| Hangul: | 부경대학교 |
| Hanja: | 釜慶大學敎 |
| Revised Romanization: | Bugyeong Daehakgyo |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Pugyŏng Taehakkyo |
Pukyong National University is one of the 10 large-scale national universities in Busan, South Korea. University has two campuses - Daeyeon-dong and Yong-dong. These campuses are situated near coastal district of Nam-gu. The location itself suggests that Pukyong University has a strong traditional focus on fisheries sciences and other maritime fields. University has excellent facilities for the Science and Technology studies.
University has been taking the lead in the marine products industry since the initiation of deep-sea fisheries in Korea, on the basis of brilliant scientific achievements in the study of oceanography with the object of making the best use of present marine resources while maintaining a rich repository of natural resources for the future.
Recently university have established new departments relevant to the present status of international affairs and the latest technology of information engineering and published a high level of intellectual research papers in academic journals to meet the needs of national and regional developments in present-day Korean society.
Pukyong was formed in 1996 from the merger of two schools: the National Fisheries University of Busan and the Busan National University of Technology. The first of these began in 1941 as the Government Fisheries Advanced School of Busan, a vocational school. It became a national college in 1946, and a university in 1990. The National University of Technology was older, dating to 1924, when it was founded as Busan Technical Supplementary School. However, it did not become a college until 1973, and then became a university in 1983.
Historically, the Daeyeon-dong area was a small fishing village which was populated by anchovy fishermen. In the early years of the 20th century these fishermen found their products in high demand and amassed a fairly sizable amount of wealth. With this money they purchased what is now the Daeyeon-dong campus land and donated it to the national government under the condition that it be used to establish training for their industry. During the Korean war, the Daeyeon campus was used as an airfield by the U.S. air force. Local residents constructed a large Dol-Jip “stone house” for the commanding officers and pilots. Today this building still stands and is used as a student cafeteria.
At present, there are some 26,000 students and 544 professors on both campuses which cover 673,899 m2. The current president is Yun Soo Mok, Ph.D. who was elected in 2005 and will serve until 2008.
Although primarily a fisheries university, PKNU has 6 colleges including a large humanities and social sciences department, 4 graduate programs with master's courses in 60 departments in 15 interdisciplinary programs and doctoral courses in 56 departments and 12 interdisciplinary programs. In addition there are 8 well funded research institutes.
[edit] PKNU Official website
[edit] Colleges
* Int. Climate System Modelling Lab.
- Dept of Earth Env Sciences
- Env System Engg.
