Shin Han-seung, Professor at Dongguk University, Inaugurated as ...

Shin Han-seung, Professor at Dongguk University, Inaugurated as Chairman of International Life Science Institute KoreaProfessor Shin Han-seung of Dongguk University (Professor in the Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, president of the Bio-Medical Convergence Research Institute) was inaugurated as the chairman of the International Life Science Institute Korea (ILSI Korea) on the 15th. His term continues until December 2022.ILSI Korea is an international non-profit scientific organization that identifies key issues and research trends in life-science technology, food safety, health, nutrition, and new biotechnology from a global perspective and explores and develops solutions through scientific collaboration. Currently, it consists of 16 branches and research foundations worldwide and is pursuing continuous cooperation to close the gap in scientific knowledge among countries and regions by hosting and attending international conferences.Professor Shin Han-seung has produced outstanding research accomplishments, publishing approximately 150 papers in SCI international journals in food safety and toxicology. He received the Hwangpa FSB Academic Award in 2013 and the 2016 Korean Toxicological Society Grand Award. In 2017, he was awarded the Service of Merit Medal, a government award from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety in recognition of his contributions in the field of food safety and toxicology.

Crime-fighting the AI Way—New Policing Model That Combines Leadi...

Crime-fighting the AI Way—New Policing Model That Combines Leading Forensic TechnologiesScientists at Dongguk University useleading technology of the 4th industrial revolution to construct aninnovative policing system, called Googi,that can improve community safety. Technologies across 3 key groups, based on virtualreality, robotics, and big data are combined in a policing system that enhancesprediction of crime and responses to it. Asa society develops, unfortunately, so does the sophistication of crime.Delinquency is constantly evolving, and delinquents use modern technology toescape the law. In such a scenario, a smart community policing system isessential to reduce crime and bring a sense of safety in residential areas. Ateam of scientists at Dongguk University led by Prof Joong-YeonLim decided to tackle this problem, and by integrating three main areas of theirresearch, have developed an innovative policing system that they have named “Googi.”Ofthe research areas, the first focuses on virtual reality used for policetraining and crime education and involves reconstruction of crime scenes throughsimulations.Thesecond investigates how robotic devices can detect and respond to crimes whenthey happen, boosting surveillance. This technology uses forensic dentistry toidentify victims and suspects. The form and pathology of teeth of Korean people,as well as bite marks, all contribute to personal identification.Thethird pertains to big data, where offline and online information is analyzed forcrime prediction and prevention. Virtual reality data, information provided bycitizens, and forensic data gathered by robots are analyzed for crimeprediction, with results handed over to local authorities. Combiningthese three modes together, the team has built a crime prediction algorithm usinginformation extracted from crime scenes, local communities, and forensics. Theresearchers are hopeful that this can help the police identify crimehotspots in real time and thus help them prepare for andrespond to crimes in vulnerable areas. Prof Lim states: “This technology can greatlycontribute to the prevention of gender violence, domestic violence, and childabuse.” Theproposed Googi system encourages citizen participation by gather their feedbackand providing results to the community, while boosting crime preventioneducation. The ability to detect individuals at crime scenes is also enhancedby using robotic technology to analyze Korean teeth. “As a result,” Prof Lim hopes, “crimes can be better predicted and responded to, resulting in a safercommunity environment.”After having successfully built a prototype on the local scale, the researchteam now looks to bring the technology to a global level in 2022.ReferenceSmartCommunity Policing System: Googi Development Research CenterMinistry of Science and ICTConvergence and Research Center*Email for correspondence: jsleearmy@dongguk.eduAbout DonggukUniversityDonggukUniversity, founded in 1906, is located in Seoul, South Korea. It comprises 13colleges that cover a variety of disciplines and has local campuses inGyeongju, Goyang, and Los Angeles. The university has 1300 professors whoconduct independent research and 18000 students undertaking studies in avariety of disciplines. Interaction between disciplines is one of the strengthson which Dongguk prides itself; the university encourages researchers to workacross disciplines in Information Technology, Bio Technology, CT, and Buddhism. Website: http://www.dongguk.edu/mbs/en/index.jsp About the researcherJoong-Yeon Lim (PhD, University ofCalifornia Berkeley, USA) is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical,Robotics and Energy Engineering at Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea. Hisresearch interests include mechanical design, nanomaterials and intellectualproperty studies.

The Journey of Successfully Landing a Job at SoftBank, Japan

The Journey of Successfully Landing a Job at SoftBank, JapanNever lose confidence and keep working hard toward your dreams! ▲ A photograph with colleagues after completing the internship at SoftBankMeet a Dongkuk alumnus with great aspirations of venturing into the vast world. In an interview, Kim Da-hyun (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, class of 2015), who was offered a job with a large overseas company, tells us how she decided to find a job overseas and landed an opportunity to work as an engineer at SoftBank, a leading Japanese company with a global presence. Q Could you give us a brief introduction of yourself?My name is Kim Da-hyun, and I majored in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Convergence Software. I love traveling and watching movies on Netflix. I am going to work at SoftBank as an engineer. Currently, I’m enjoying my free time, which is never guaranteed in the future.Q What motivated you to seek employment outside Korea?As I have always enjoyed traveling abroad, I thought about doing some kind of work outside Korea. I believe that the exchange student program directly motivated me. As I was taking classes in Japan, my desire to live in Japan grew. So I decided to find a job overseas because I think it is best to get a job where I can utilize my major as opposed to gaining temporary work experience through a working holiday.Q Why did you decide to study in Japan as an exchange student?When I was in high school, I had a chance to visit Japan for two weeks through a homestay program sponsored by the City of Seoul. I kept in touch with a Japanese friend I had met at that time. Later, we even visited each other in our home countries. When I became a college student, I found out about the exchange student program and thought, “Why not go to Japan?” That was the main reason. Q Did you experience any difficulties because of the language?It was early in the spring semester of my freshman year when I made the decision to join the exchange student program. During that summer, I began to prepare for it by attending a private language school to study Japanese. Being an exchange student naturally improved my Japanese skills because I had no option but to speak in Japanese as there were hardly any Korean students. Besides, I was able to handle difficulties rather quickly due to my easy-going nature, which enabled me to make friends in the process of expanding my horizons as I experienced a variety of things. While preparing for my job search, I studied business Japanese and additionally studied Japanese on the phone. During my senior year in college, I went to Japan to work as an intern. There, I began to watch at least 30 minutes of Japanese news each morning, and practiced writing resumes, which gradually helped improve my Japanese. Q What did you do in preparation for landing a job overseas?I attended recruitment fairs at the career center on campus and job fairs in Japan. Even though hiring managers from Nissan and Amazon were present at the recruitment fairs, I did not apply for any jobs because I had just begun to prepare for my future career. However, I remember an opportunity to submit a job application immediately after the presentation. In addition, there is an initial settlement support service provided by the government once the employment is confirmed. I hope you will take advantage of these services. Q Please tell us about SoftBank.Comparable to telecom providers SKT, KT, LGU+ in Korea, Japan has SoftBank, Docomo, and AU as the three major mobile phone companies. Focusing on mobile communication business, SoftBank is conducting various business projects including Big Data and AI. A simple payment service called “PayPay” is among the most popular services in Japan, and is also well known in Korea because of the CEO, Son Jung-ui!Q What are your responsibilities at the company?Specific job responsibilities have not yet been assigned. Unlike Korea, Japanese companies hire people without specific jobs in mind. However, SoftBank recruits employees for two different fields: general office jobs (sales, planning, etc.) and engineering jobs (system, network, etc.). I passed the test for an engineering job, so I will learn about my department and job responsibilities at the end of the new employee training. I will be working as either an AI engineer, Big Data engineer, or a systems engineer based on my top three listed preferences. Q Please tell us a little about the recruitment process in Japan.The recruitment process in Japan is quite different from that in Korea. In general, companies in Japan conduct an annual open recruitment. They usually prepare for the open recruitment in March and start accepting applications in April. After screening all applicants, the recruitment process concludes by September, and the new employee initiation ceremony is held at the beginning of October. Then, new employees commence their jobs in April the following year. However, I was recruited through the early recruitment program for interns, instead of the regular recruitment process. After completing my internship in September 2018, I submitted my application in October. Then, I was notified of acceptance in December. That is how I got to work with the new recruits for 2020.Q What is the secret of your success? I don’t have any secrets, but I believe that my endeavoring personality matches the type of employee sought by SoftBank. Receiving a favorable evaluation on the internship also gave me a huge advantage. What SoftBank valued most were likely my communication skills and work ethics, and my lack of fear to take risks to tackle challenges. Sometimes I hear people say that it is easy to land a job in the midst of recruitment war. To some degree, it seems that the threshold for employment is lower in Japan than in Korea. During the job interview, I got the impression that they had a higher regard for the applicant’s potential, personality, and capability than specifications. Still, when I think of the new employees hired with me, I cannot say that specifications are not important. As for expats, it may be even more challenging because foreigners must be fluent in Japanese.Q What type of talents do you think SoftBank is looking for?In my view, SoftBank seeks individuals who always strive for betterment and adjust to new changes quickly. These five tenets are important to SoftBank: Speed, Excellence, Ambition, Commitment, and Retrospection. I think that the interviewing committee took those things into consideration. Interviewers always asked me “What inspired you to look for employment in Japan?"Q What would you like to achieve in your career?I hope to live a full life, with no regrets when I look back on my life five years later. To do so, I intend to accomplish small achievements one after another, focusing on what I can at the moment. Won’t I accomplish something if I keep working hard? In other words, my goal is to make an achievement that is recognized by the company.Q What is your ultimate goal?At present, it is not easy for me to give a clear answer. I have always set goals and strived toward achieving them. I still have many aspirations. On the one hand, I hope to work in the U.S. branch or the Chinese branch after gaining some experience and work skills. On the other hand, I hope to become an executive at the company and return to Korea with valuable experience. As I am just beginning my job as a new recruit, I will need some time to think about what I really want to do in the future. Q Can you share some advice with the Dongkuk alumni who want to work overseas?You may get lonely if you are independently preparing for a job interview with no support. I felt the same way. I believe you should never lose confidence, and keep striving toward the goal. You will eventually have a satisfying result if you keep working on your cover letter, personality test, aptitude test, and job interview. Even if you fail, continue to endeavor toward your goal without feeling discouraged. I root for all those who are preparing to land a job overseas!

DNA “Scissors” Could Cut Out the Alzheimer’s Causing Gene in Mic...

DNA “Scissors” Could Cut Out the Alzheimer’s Causing Gene in MiceScientistsat Dongguk University successfully treated Alzheimer’s disease in mice using thegene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9. They used the tool to edit out the Alzheimer’scausing gene in the mice, thereby improving their memory and other cognitivefunctions. While this is only a first step and much research remains to bedone, these promising results put gene therapy on the map of possibletreatments for Alzheimer’s.As Alzheimer’s diseasecontinues to elude the efforts of modern medicine, scientists turn to geneediting technology to treat, or ‘manage’ it. Alzheimer’s is commonly associatedwith the BACE 1 gene, which drives the production of amyloid-β proteins in the brain. Inthe brains of Alzheimer’s patients, this protein accumulates on the outsides ofneurons or nerve cells as “plaque,” and is thought to be one of the main causesof the disease. Using “DNA scissors” called CRISPR-Cas9, which can cut out aspecified part of a DNA sequence, Dr. Jongpil Kim and his colleagues from Korea(Dongguk University) and the USA attempted to edit out the BACE 1 genein the neurons of the adult mouse brain. Theirs is the first invivo attempt (using cells inside living mice) to test the effectiveness ofCRISPR-Cas9 in stopping Alzheimer’s progression. Their ultimate ambition—like that of many others in thefield—is to develop treatments fordifferent forms of dementia, which would dramatically improve patients’ qualityof life. “We aimed to see whetherCRISPR-Cas9, one of the latest developments in biotechnology, can open up a newdirection for treating dementia, which is, at present, considered an incurabledisease,” Dr. Kim says.Their results indeed lookpromising. Within 8 to 12weeks of treatment with the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, the plaque surroundingaffected neurons in the mice dramatically decreased and their cognitivefunctions improved substantially. The mice also showed betterassociative learning and spatial working memory. Further, there was noevidence of increasing mutations in other, non-targeted parts of the genome,suggesting minimal side-effects. All this indicates the hugepotential of gene editing technologies to treat neurodegenerative diseases: by removingfaulty genes at their source, disease progression can be halted, or evenreversed, in just a few weeks. The authors advise caution, however,as gene editing cannot be undone. In Dr. Kim’s words, one must ensure that “no detrimental, and potentially very rare,genomic alterations are caused”. Thus, this technique requires much moreresearch before it can be applied to human subjects. Nonetheless, as another remark byDr. Kim goes, “this study shows howCRISPR-Cas9 can be applied to the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases as well.”ReferenceAuthor:Jongpil KimTitle of original paper:In vivo neuronal gene editing via CRISPR–Cas9 amphiphilic nanocomplexes alleviates deficits in mouse models of Alzheimer’s diseaseJournal:Nature NeuroscienceDOI:10.1038/s41593-019-0352-0Affiliations:Departments of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, Dongguk University*Corresponding author’s email: jpkim153@dongguk.eduAbout DonggukUniversityDongguk University, founded in 1906, is located in Seoul, SouthKorea. It comprises 13 colleges that cover a variety of disciplines and haslocal campuses in Gyeongju, Goyang, and Los Angeles. The university has 1300professors who conduct independent research and 18000 students undertakingstudies in a variety of disciplines. Interaction between disciplines is one ofthe strengths on which Dongguk prides itself; the university encouragesresearchers to work across disciplines in Information Technology, BioTechnology, CT, and Buddhism. Website:http://www.dongguk.edu/mbs/en/index.jsp About the authorJongpil Kim is an AssociateProfessor of Chemistry and Director of Center for Regenerative medicine atDongguk University, Seoul, Korea. His group is developing approaches to controllingcell fate through nanotechnology for regenerative medicine. They are alsodeveloping CRISPR-Cas9 nanocomplexes for invivo gene editing technologies to treat neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Kimpreviously completed postdoctoral training at Dr.RudolfJaenisch’slab at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (Whitehead Institute). In2008, Dr. Kim received a PhD in Neurobiology from Columbia University.

Dongguk University and the Shanghai University of Traditional Ch...

Dongguk University and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Strike an Exchange AgreementExchanges in education and researchOur school and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine struck an exchange agreement on the 6th (last Monday). Beopsan Sunim, the Chairman of the Board, visited the Shanghai University of Traditional Medicine in China on Monday the 6th to strike the education and research agreement between the two schools.The focus areas of the exchange consist of ▲Exchanges for undergraduate and research students ▲Exchanges for staff and faculty ▲Exchanges in academic data, publications, and academic information and ▲The organization of joint research and conferences.For the agreement ceremony, the attendees from our school included Beopsan Sunim, the Chairman of the Board of Dongguk University, Kim Dong-Il, the Dean of the Dongguk University College of Korean Medicine, Park Ki-ryun, the Head of the Corporate Office, Lim Joong-yeon, the Head of the International Affairs Office, and Lee Hyung-yeol, the Chief Administrator of Ilsan Hospital. The Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was represented by Seo Kun-gwang, the President of the school, Jung Lim-yoon, the Head of the International Exchange Office, Yu Hua, the head of the Hospital Management Office, Seo Hong-mae, the Head of the Development Planning Office, and Seo Jung, the Dean of Academic Affairs.The Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, established in 1956, is the first traditional Chinese medicine school in China. It has approximately 8,000 students and 1,300 faculty members; in addition, the school has 8 hospitals. Other than Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Materia Medica and Clinical Integrative Chinese, and Western Medicine, the school also offers majors in Nursing, Food Safety and Nutrition, Rehabilitation Therapy, Pharmaceutical Science, Bio-engineering, and Preventive Medicine.

Dongguk University has been selected as the “Best University” in...

Dongguk University has been selected as the “Best University” in the Dong-A Daily Youth Dream University evaluation Selected for the third time consecutively for employment and start-up support According to the results of the 2019 Youth Dream University evaluation, which Dong-A Daily and Ministry of Employment and Labor, Korea Employment Information Service conduct with the research company, Macromill Embrain, on December 9, Dongguk University was selected as the best university for the third consecutive time.The Youth Dream University evaluation, which was introduced in 2013, is being held for the fifth time this year. It focuses on how actively a university supports employment of the students and start-ups and how effectively does it run the career guidance system. This year, the Youth Dream University was selected based on the information on 224 four-year universities from across the nation published in Higher Education in Korea. Dongguk University is growing into a startup campus that represents Korea both in name and reality by introducing an active business-friendly bachelor’s system, including the undergraduate major linked to start-up, leave of absence system for start-ups, establishment of general graduate school of technology and start-ups, and operation of start-up credit system for fostering a university start-up culture. For the first time in Korea, it has launched a leave of absence system for start-ups, which allows students who establish a start-up to take a leave of absence for up to two years (four semesters). As of 2019, it has been evaluated that more than ninety students are pursuing the dream of becoming entrepreneurs. The differentiated career support system offered by the university also stands out. Dongguk University's Big Career Service logically organizes the Top 30 companies that have hired the maximum number of graduates and shares employment information related to these companies. In addition, alumni can find information on employment. It also provides statistics on field trips, double majors, international exchanges, and job programs that business alumni seniors found useful for employment. An important point is that since 2012, it has offered a platform for students to compare their employment competency with seniors who have been employed by companies based on their graduate degree and supports the current students to develop the capabilities that they lack.

Professor Kwak Moon-kyu, appointed as the chairman of the Korean...

Professor Kwak Moon-kyu, appointed as the chairman of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering The term is one year starting from January 2020 Professor Kwak Moon-kyu from the Department of Mechanical and Robot Energy Engineering at Dongguk University, Kwak Moon-kyu, is the eighteenth chairman of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering. on the 1st.Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering was established with the purpose of contributing to the development and dissemination of studies and technology on noise and vibration. It aims to contribute toward the promotion of science and technology to address the public's desire for a pleasant living environment. It celebrated its thirtieth anniversary this year.The society is a corporation affiliated to the Ministry of Environment established with the participation of various fields such as machinery, architecture, civil engineering, aviation, shipbuilding and marine, electricity, and electronics. It has more than 4,000 members including regular members, special members, and group members.Professor Kwak Moon-kyu said, “The emergence of the 4th industry means that technology related to the existing noise and vibration is being born in new form.” He also said, “Based on this, we will absorb experts in the field of noise and vibration derivatives and in the connected fields to develop the society into one that combines more diverse fields.”

Professor Lim Gun-ill, elected president of the Korean Tissue En...

Professor Lim Gun-ill, elected president of the Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine SocietyThe term is one year starting from January 2021Professor Lim Gun-ill, the president of the Research Institute for Integrative Regenerative Biomedical Engineering of Dongguk University, has been elected as the next president (term from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021) at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society held on December 26. Korean Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Society is a leading society in stem cell regenerative medicine in Korea. It has hosted the World Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference (TERMIS World Congress) in Seoul in 2009 and Asia-Pacific Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference (TERMIS AP Congress) in Daegu in 2014. Professor Lim Gun-ill has also been appointed as the president of the Asia-Pacific Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Conference, which will be held at the Jeju Convention Center in October 2022.

Stepping Up Spintronics with Room-temperature Magnetism in Molyb...

Stepping Up Spintronics with Room-temperature Magnetism in Molybdenum Oxide Nanoflakes Spintronicdevices, which use electron spin to process data, are emerging at the forefrontof semiconductor applications. Staying a step ahead, scientists from Korearecently developed a novel nanomaterial that shows uniform ferromagnetism evenat room temperature. This material is expected to be applicable to future next-generationelectronic devices.Growth in the number of smart electronic devices hassparked an increase in research interest in high functionality nanomaterials. Spintronic devices, which exploit a propertyof electron spin to process electronic data, have emerged as major players inthis field. “For instance,”notes Professor Sejoon Lee from Dongguk University, Korea, “ultra-fast logic and memory circuits, low-power small and lightelectronic modules, and quantum computing systems are possible futureapplications of spintronics.”Recently, 2D and quasi 2D materials, such as α-molybdenumoxide (α-MoO3), have gained research attention for use inspintronic devices, owing to their unique physical, chemical, mechanical, andstructural characteristics. α-MoO3,inparticular,is attractive because of its structure, which comprises stacked 2D layers. Thisstructure makes it ideal for introducing magnetism, enabling its more effectiveuse in a number of devices than conventional 3D bulk materials. To make an α-MoO3 nanoflakemagnetic, scientists at Dongguk University, Korea, led by Prof Lee, doped telluriumatoms into its lattice, disrupting its structure and freeing up an electron. Aselectrons revolve around the nucleus of an atom, they also spin on their axis.This spin gives rise to magnetism called the spin magnetic moment. The spins of several overlapping electronstaken together make the nanomaterial magnetic. But for electron spin to giverise to magnetic moment, the electron must be unpaired. Thus, this freedelectron in the α-MoO3 lattice adds magnetism to the material. Across themultiple stacked layers of the lattice, magnetism was felt even at roomtemperature. This exciting new studyis published in ACS Nano, a journalof the American Chemical Society. The scientists imaged the tellurium doped α-MoO3nanoflakes with scanning electron microscopy and found that the surface wassmooth, and the magnetism was spread evenly over the material. This is unlike thecase of conventional transition metal-doped magnetic nanomaterials, in whichthe formation of magnetic clusters and the consequent degradation offerromagnetic properties is a major problem. Optimistic about the applications of this discovery,Dr. Lee says, “The synthesized nanoflake can be effectively used forfabricating high-quality room-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductornanostructures. Since spintronicdevices are both highly energy-efficient and very useful for rapidly processinglarge amounts of data, a new paradigm can be created in the electronicsindustry.”ReferenceAuthor:Sejoon Lee et. alTitle of original paper: Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Ultrathin α‑MoO3:Te NanoflakesJournal:American Chemical Society Nano DOI:10.1021/acsnano.9b01179 Affiliations:1 Quantum-functional Semiconductor Research Center, Dongguk University−Seoul 04623, Korea 2 Department of Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University−Seoul 04623, Korea *Corresponding author’s email: sejoon@dongguk.eduAbout Dongguk UniversityDongguk University, founded in 1906, is locatedin Seoul, South Korea. It comprises 13 colleges that cover a variety ofdisciplines and has local campuses in Gyeongju, Goyang, and Los Angeles. Theuniversity has 1300 professors who conduct independent research and 18000students undertaking studies in a variety of disciplines. Interaction betweendisciplines is one of the strengths on which Dongguk prides itself; theuniversity encourages researchers to work across disciplines in InformationTechnology, Bio Technology, CT, and Buddhism. Website: http://www.dongguk.edu/mbs/en/index.jsp About the authorDr.Sejoon Lee, the lead author of this paper, is Associate Professor at theDepartment of Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Korea. His researchinterests include semiconductor quantum-nanostructures, semiconductornanodevices, neuromorphic devices, and future intelligent nanosensors. Hisongoing project (2019-2023) on “Intelligent Electro-Acousto-Optically DrivableNeuromorphic Devices” is one of his continuingefforts to open new doors in nanoelectronics technology. He also currentlyserves as a Topic Editor of Nanomaterials (2019~). ​

There will be a moment when everything is perfect

There will be a moment when everything is perfectInterview with Professor Kim Tae-gyeom of “Acting and Creative Thinking”“Things can go wrong, but it’s not the wrong way. I hope you to try anything. At least you would realize what you’ve done wrong. If you don’t lose your trust in yourself, everything will be perfect one day.” Professor Kim Tae-gyeom finished “Acting and Creative Thinking” this semester with this last word.Professor Kim, who is an actor at the same time, recently appeared in many works such as〈The Fiery Priest〉,〈Special Labor Inspector Jo Jang Poong〉, and〈Mr. Temporary〉. He graduated from the Division of Theatre, and now he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Dongguk.What class is “Acting and Creative Thinking”?You can look back on yourself by analyzing character. To be frank with you, I do want to give a chance to do what students want to do. Many students are having a hard time to prepare for their job these days. I think it is good to talk about yourself and listen to others. Give yourself a break in this class.How was the class this semester?Until last semester, I thought I had to give students correct direction as an adult and let them know what I learned. I realized that I was foolish. You are right. There were great acting performances (in the final exam) and I was very surprised. Some of them performed the play with the story they wanted to tell, and others created new content or reinterpreted existing content. All the fourteen teams were impressive.Does teaching students who don’t major in acting help your acting?I can remind original intention from acting non-majors. While I am an adult in acting, the students have childlike purity. They are the gemstones themselves. I see the purity I’ve forgotten. At some point, I often lose the rough gem which I had when I first start acting. I learn a lot from them. It is not easy, but I try not to forget the heart.Do you have any reason for entering graduate school?Making a quick debut was my goal when I was in college. After finishing the third grade, I took a leave of absence and worked hard at Daehak-ro for two years and then I made a debut in 2012. However, I missed my school life. I came back to school and worked hard from workshop. Luckily, I played the main character Stanley in a play titled “A Streetcar Named Desire.” I think I learned Dongguk(?) acting style a lot.Then I went to an agency and I only brewed coffee at the cafe in the agency for three months. I couldn’t even act so I just left and it disappeared. I felt discouraged and hopeless. At that time, the deceased Professor Ahn Min-soo was in graduate school. I felt lack of learning, so I chose to learn from the master.Is there synergy between working two jobs; acting and teaching acting.?I think it is easy to forget the eagerness and genuineness that I had when I started acting. An actor is, after all, a job. No matter how much you love your work, it is likely that you’ll be tired and lost first intention at some point. Watching the students’ acting, I could go back to my mind at the beginning. It is pleased to meet students who remind me of the purity of those days. I think students are teaching me.What kind of actor do you want to be?I want to be a blameless senior to my disciples or juniors. Also, I want to be an intellectual including Kim Sang-joong and Lee Soon-jae. They are my role models.Please give a word to Dongguk student whose dream is to be an actor.Please find another job quickly. I’m just joking. If you love acting, you can’t help it. However, please do not choose this work because you’re going through a hard time with your work. All the job may be harsh. I think there is no difference here. In particular, it is hard to do well as you endeavor, and difficult to be loved by the public as well. Moreover, it’s even difficult to keep that love. Don’t flee to this work. Start acting when you feel you have to.Hwang Hae-sudhfl00@dongguk.edu