Women’s University for Women’s Better Jobs in Korea and Elsewhere
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Chhay Sophal
Incheon City (South Korea): 30 years ago, Korean women were hard to find jobs if comparing with their male nationals.
Seeing the unfair competition, founders started having initiative to establish an educational school for females and providing vocational training so that they can join society with different professional careers.
Starting in 1992, Kyung-In Women’s Vocational University opened and Korea’s Ministry of Information and Communication in 1997 selected the university as an excellent university of informatization. After changing its name to Kyung-In Women’s College in 1998, the name was rechanged to Kyung-In University Women’s University (KIWU) in April 2012 at the time of its 20th anniversary.
The university has 11 Departments – Airline Service, Video Broadcasting, Advertising Design, Nursing, Health and Environment, Food and Nutrition, International Trade, Tax Accounting, Early Childhood Education, Hotel and Tourism Management, and Korean Language.
Students of all departments are women, expect the Department of Korean Language where it has male students, Dr. Kyungok Park, KIWU‘s Director of International Affairs Office, told a group of foreign journalists led by Asian Journalist Association (AJA) on 30 April 2024 at KIWU.
So far, KIWU has 450 foreign students and it has been fostering female talents essential to the Korean society with the founding ideals of Revering God and Loving Humanity, she added.
According to the university’s report, the Advance Major Course of Bachelor’s Degree is an educational system designed to cultivate professional technical manpower with theoretical and practical skills by improving the job performance ability of vocational university graduates and providing opportunities for continuing education.
To nature female talents with truthful personalities and the best capacities, KIWU is adding innovation on top of innovation even today, the report reads adding that the university has provided standard education for its students.
Part of its vision for 2025, KIWU aims to nurture talents with professional occupations who practice sharing and caring with the right values, understand Korea and the international community, as well as capabilities to pursue innovation.
AJA is an international organization dedicated to the fulfilment of truthful and impartial reporting, the realization of press freedom and the advancement of journalism in close cooperation with journalists of Asia.
