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YU held the bust unveiling ceremony for Chairman LEE Si-won of PuCheon Corporation N

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  • Date : 2022.08.11 10:08
  • Publication Date : 2022.08.05
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A businessman from the class of 63 of Department of Commerce of YU (former Daegu College) donated KRW 1,070 million as alma mater development fund.

Major donor courtesy … encouragement of college donation culture is expected.

Construction of “LEE Si-won Global Convention Hall” with use of Chairman LEE’s donation … Foundation for communication against COVID-19

[August 05, 2022]


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<The bust unveiling ceremony for Chairman LEE Si-won of PuCheon Corporation (Left)>


YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) held the bust unveiling ceremony for Chairman LEE Si-won of PuCheon Corporation on the 4th.


 The bust of Chairman LEE Si-won is located at the entrance of “LEE Si-won Global Convention Hall” on the 3rd floor of YU Cheonma Art Center Chamber Hall.It was intended to respect Chairman LEE’s lead of Korean economic growth as a businessman and his contribution in the development of the university with donation of as large as KRW 1,070 million as a development fund.


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Chairman LEE Si-won of the class of 63 of YU (former Daegu College) Department of Commerce is a businessman who established PuCheon Corporation in 1975 and developed the company to be a textile company of which the quality was globally accepted. He received Honorary Doctor of Business Administration from YU in April, 2018 with acceptance of his excellent capability as a businessman and “LEE Si-won Lecture Room” was opened in YU Business Administration Building with use of his name in 2018.


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 Chairman LEE Si-won attended the bust unveiling ceremony and commented, “YU grew up to be a businessman to play his role for development of the country and society. I made a small effort to repay my alma mater a little but receive a large gift from my lama mater today and thank for such gift. In future, I will do my best for national development and social contribution activities as a businessman with possession of the self-pride of a YU alumnus. I hope that the juniors who study on the YU campus will grow to be global talents.”


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 “LEE Si-won Global Convention Hall” in which the bust of Chairman LEE is located was constructed in February with use of the development fund donated by Chairman LEE. It has about 519 (157 pyeong) of area for real-time video lectures and online live relay, etc. as well as multinational conferences, international academic conferences, and seminars. Inside of the convention hall consists of main hall for conferences and special lectures, etc., control room for control of whole systems, and simultaneous interpretation room.


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 “LEE Si-won Global Convention Hall” is equipped with the most advanced systems not inferior to multinational meeting rooms of main international organizations. YU is the only one in domestic universities which has such scale of international meeting systems.


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 In this year, large global events such as YU 75th Anniversary Global Forum, Honorary Doctor of International Development Degree Conferment Ceremony for Secretary General David M. Beasley of UN WFP, and Yu’s China Forum, etc. were held in this place. YU has been holding large events including international academic conferences every year and, as various events were recently held in untact type due to COVID-19, “LEE Si-won Global Convention Hall” is expected to more frequently used.


 President CHOI Oe-chool of YU said, “He is one of the businessmen who led Korean economic growth and the footsteps of Chairman LEE Si-won will serve as a model for juniors as a proud YU alumnus. The valuable will of Chairman LEE who has been supporting his alma mater for development for tens of years is felt in every places of YU campus. Especially, “LEE Si-won Global Convention Hall” constructed with his donation will become the foundation for cultivation of global talents. Our university will accelerate cultivation of talents contributable for human society keeping the valuable will of the persons, who support the development of the university, deep in our mind.”