Students' Activities

How do our department's students think about their university life? Many students come to the department of Baduk studies, get new experiences and become satisfied as realizing various values of Baduk. They are satisfied with their decisions for their major and put efforts to improve their abilities in foreign languages, computer and so on for their future.

Besides attending classes, the students do various dynamic activities. Many students participate as staff in Baduk tournaments and events, explore Baduk relics and investigate Baduk education and so on.

At MTs (membership trainings), Baduk conferences and friendship sports matches, they make friends and train body & mind. Furthermore, there are club activities inside the department of Baduk studies, where the students can gain various and deep knowledge by themselves. There are three clubs. The Baduk education club, the Baduk English club "Sebastian" (named after the founder Lee Seong-Keun) and the Baduk Media club.

The students of the department of Baduk studies are also strong at sports matches. In basketball and soccer tournaments at the College of Art and Physical Education, our students usually can beat other majors and go up to the finals with the department of Physical Education. With persistence and fighting spirit our students once even won against the department of Physical Education. Diana Koszegi from Hungary is very talented in sports and a member of the women soccer team.

In vacation the students visit other countries to participate in tournaments and teach Baduk.

The students form a team and visit foreign countries, where they raise the image of Baduk, promote Korea and Myongji University abroad. The former Korean inseis Hwang Inseong, Cho Seok-Bin, Jang Bi and Hong Seulki stayed for more than one year in Europe and USA, teaching Baduk and opening a Korean traditional Sunjang Baduk tournament.

Yoon Young-Sun, 5 Dan-Pro, who graduated from the department of Baduk Studies, stays since 2005 in Germany and teaches Baduk there as well as in other European countries.