Minister for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Chun, Jae-Hee, Minister for Special Affairs Ju, Ho-Young and Minister of Knowledge Economy Choi, Kyung-Hwan
The Yeungnam University facing ‘The 2nd Age of Prosperity’, reaffirms underlying strength of alumni
[2009-11-5]

 
 The 3 alumni ministers are taking memorial pictures at the inauguration banquet of 3 alumni ministers.
(From left, minister Ju, Ho-Young, minister Chun, Jae-Hee, president of general alumni association Kim, Kwan-Yong, president Lee, Hyo-Soo, minister Choi, Kyung-Hwan)

 “I am really proud of this opportunity to reaffirm the underlying strength of Yeungnam University leading the Republic of Korea as a member of alumni before being a president.”
Yeungnam University (president Lee, Hyo-Soo) has prepared \'inauguration banquet of 3 Yeungnam University alumni ministers\' at Seoul Hyatt Hotel in the evening of 4th. The face of president Lee, Hyo-Soo who made an introductory speech was filled with joy and pride.

 The main characters for this day\'s banquet were 3 incumbent ministers including Minister for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs Chun, Jae-Hee, Minister for Special Affairs Ju, Ho-Young and Minister of Knowledge Economy Choi, Kyung-Hwan.

 They said \"As I feel pride from the fact that I am a graduate of Yeungnam University, I\'ll always be cheering from any time and place that Yeungnam University would leap as a local nucleus university of global standard with \'YU Glocal Initiative\' as a new vision” by saying that \"we\'d like to thank our university for extending the courtesy of preparing the banquet.\"

 
 Minister Chun, Jae-Hee(60) is famous for carrying a qualifier called \"first\" as a student of Yeungnam University\'s Public Administration department who entered the university in 1968. She is the \'first new student\' of Yeungnam University that had been launched (1967) by combining Daegu University and Chunggu University while getting the title of \'the first woman to pass the Senior Civil Service Examination\' in 1973. Followed by becoming \'the first woman to become a government appointed mayor\' in 1994, she broke all sorts of records related to women such as becoming \'the first woman to become a mayor elected by the people\' in 1995. Although she had entered the political circles by proportional representation at the time of 16th National Assembly, she also had set a \'new record\' of being elected as a member of National Assembly in a local constituency where she had served as a mayor by going through a special election after resigning the proportional representation through her tenure. Afterwards, as she became successful in 3 elections in a same constituency, she became in charge of important missions within the party such as the chairwoman of 3rd Policy Coordinate Committee, chairwoman of the Policy Committee and a member of the supreme council in the Grand National Party while leading the Ministry for Health Welfare and Family Affairs since August of last year. 

 Minister Ju, Ho-Young(49) is the first person to become a minister of Lee, Myung-Bak administration as someone in his forties and had entered Law department of Yeungnam University in 1978. After passing the 24th bar exam in 1982, he had served as a judge for about 20 years until retiring as a chief judge of Daegu District Court and by spreading a remarkable assembly activities such as serving as an representative of floor public information section and a vice floor leader of the Grand National Party after entering the political circles through the 17th general election in 2004, he was reelected to in the 18th National Assembly. He was appointed as chief secretary of president Lee, Myung-Bak at the time of nomination race for Grand National Party\'s presidential election candidate in 2007 and served as assistant chief secretary of presidential election candidate\'s secretariat and spokesman of elected candidate.

 Minister Choi, Kyung-Hwan(54)\'s hometown is Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk Province and although he graduated from Yonsei University as an undergraduate, he became an alumnus of Yeungnam University by completing the AMP course at the graduate school of business administration, Yeungnam University by entering the school in 2006. He is a reelected assemblyman (17th and 18th) who is former economic bureaucrat going through the Economic Planning Board and chief economic bureau of the Blue House as he served in government office for 20 years after entering the government office by passing the Senior Civil Service Exam (22nd). Even in the presidential post undertaking committee, he had assisted in preparing main economic policies of the new government as he became in charge of governor at the 2nd economic subcommittee.

 On this day\'s banquet, president Lee and Kim had handed out the memorial medals and souvenirs to 3 alumni ministers while the assemblymen who are graduates of Yeungnam University such as Lee, In-Ki, Kim, Tae-Hwan, Ju, Sung-Young, Seo, Gap-Won, Song, Young-Seon, Kim, Kwang-Lim and Cho, Won-Jin as well as the alumni including former assembly speaker Kim, Su-Han, former Minister of Environment Kwak, Kyul-Ho and former justice of supreme court Bae, Ki-Won, etc have participated in large numbers to congratulate the inauguration of these ministers.

 Meanwhile, Yeungnam University is recently encountering \'the 2nd age of prosperity\' such as discharging 3 incumbent ministers - no. 3 in the country, discharging 18 assemblymen in the 18th National Assembly - no. 3 in the country, discharging executives of top 30 companies - no. 9 in the country and no. 1 in provincial private university, and discharging high officials above class 1 - no. 7 in the country, etc.