YU-KOTRA signs a work cooperation agreement
First Korean university to jointly pursue global CSR projects with KOTRA
[May 15, 2013]

 YU and KOTRA signed a work cooperation agreement on sending global interns and jointly pursuing global CSR projects. (from left to right: YU President Noh, Seok Kyun, KOTRA CEO Oh, Young Ho)

 YU students will be sent overseas as global interns in the 'Youth Human Resources Overseas Dispatch Program' that is being pursued by KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency). Moreover, YU will be the first Korean university to collaborate with KOTRA in jointly pursuing CSR projects to contribute to the international community.

 YU President Noh, Seok Kyun met with KOTRA CEO Oh, Young Ho at the YU president's office at 4 P.M. on the 14th to sign an agreement on work cooperation. They agreed to work together to enhance the global status of Korea and to foster global human resources through cooperation that can utilize the strengths and expertise of the two institutions.

 As part of this, KOTRA promised to include YU students in the 'Youth Human Resources Overseas Dispatch Program' and send them overseas as global interns. Furthermore, they also promised to work together on cultivating global human resources by jointly pursuing multi-cultural human resource fostering projects.

 In addition, YU will become the first Korean university to participate in KOTRA's CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) projects for emerging countries and will pursue globalization of YU's specialized field of the Saemaul Undong. Moreover, KOTRA also agreed to mutually agree with YU for finding, executing and evaluating new projects and searching for future directions of CSR projects that are currently being pursued in Vietnam, Indonesia and Myanmar.

 On this, KOTRA CEO Oh, Young Ho stated, "KOTRA, which was established in 1961 when the first 5-year plan for economic development began, did its best to make Korea a 'trading' nation for the past fifty years and is now contributing to the establishment of the new national power," while adding, "We learned that there was a very high demand to learn about President Park Chung Hee and the Saemaul Undong especially in South America, Southeast Asia and Africa, and thought that we should provide education on the Saemaul Undong to trade officers before dispatching our overseas trade officers in February and August of each year. Being able to promise the cooperation with YU, which has the best education and research infrastructure on the Saemaul Undong, is very good news. We hope that YU will help us a lot."

 YU President Noh, Seok Kyun said, "Based on our educational mission to produce future pillars of the nation for its revitalization, we have continuously pursued making the Saemaul Undong an academic discipline and globalizing it. We expect that cooperating with KOTRA will accelerate this process." He added, "At this juncture, which is 60 years since the cease-fire agreement of the Korean War, 67 countries came on our side at the war and many more helped us in the past, but many are still in poverty. It is now time for us to return the favor. I hope that YU and KOTRA will work together to fulfill our responsibilities."

 Meanwhile, prior to signing the agreement with KOTRA, YU signed work cooperation agreements for globalization of the Saemaul Undong and the cultivation of the global human resources with KOICA (Korea International Cooperation Agency), Rural Development Administration and the Korea Rural Economic Institute.