Student Success Center, Held a Student Success Story Contest Award Ceremony 

- Discover undergraduate, graduate, and international student’s diverse student success stories

The Student Success Center conducted a 2020 Student Success Story Contest with the theme of ‘Self-cultivation’, the founding Confucian philosophy of SKKU and 14 final students were selected among 68 applicants through two screenings (document and PT comprehensive review). To comply with COVID-19 prevention regulations, the PT comprehensive review was conducted on/offline. On October 30 (Fri), the award ceremony was held at International Hall (Room 90104) in Humanities and Social Sciences Campus.

This contest had two tracks for Korean and International students, so all students including undergraduate, graduate, and international students in campus participated. In particular, international students presented their growth story in Korean as best they could during the second PT comprehensive review and received their feedback smoothly with the examiners (professors). These students are role models of student success who grow through experiences of failure and success, and have the potential to grow further in the future as considering community’s common issues.

Award Winners are as follows.

△Dongeun Kim (Department of Architecture) △Minji Kim (Department of Global Business Administration) △Yongjae Kim (Department of English Language and Literature) △Jihyun Kim (Department of Economics) △Jhein Park (Department of English Language and Literature) △Jaehyun Song (Department of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering) △Youngjun Lee (Department of Mechanical Engineering) △Sukyung Hyung (Department of Sports Science) △Hyejun Hong (Department of Korean Language and Literature) △Donghoon Kim(Doctoral program, Department of Library and Information Science) △Yiji Moon (Doctoral program, Department of Social Welfare) △Donghak Lee (M.A. program, School of Law) △Limyu Deng (M.A. program, Department of Convergence Engineering for Future city) △MERVEGUL (M.A. program, Department of Korean Language and Literature)

At the ceremony, Sanghoon Bae, the director of Student Success Center, explained the aim of this program saying, “The student success story contest is to support students’ further growth by complimenting and encouraging them.” He emphasized the role of student saying, “As a role model for student success, student should share one’s experiences with Sungkyun community with responsibility and pride, and become a proud student of Sungkyunkwan University who contributes to the development of our society and the world.”

Professor Sanghoon Seol, one of the reviewers, encouraged the winners by saying “As a role model for student success, I hope you can be supportive to other students, especially who are curious about and want to follow the seniors’ footprint.”

The student success center plans to publish 14 winners’ student success stories and after stories of last year’s winners, place them in related-departments, and expand it through e-book. Based on the success story of students who have been discovered for the past two years, the university hopes to establish a role model for SKKU students next year by finding success stories of students in various parts of the school.