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a-history-of-international-exchanges00

- 84 -Ⅵ. Interuniversity Sister Colleges(1) Sunchon National University (Sunchon, Korea)(ⅰ) MU Faculty of Technology was a well sinkerWhen Mr. Hiroshi Fujimoto, Dean of the Faculty of Technology, visited histeacher (Mr. Toyotoshi Yamanouchi, now professor emeritus of KyushuUniversity) in his office at Kyushu University, he met Associate professor Son,Soo-Jong of Sunchon University (hereafter SNU) who was doing research underthe guidance of Professor Yamanouchi. That meeting was the start of theexchange between MU and SNU.In November 1989, Dean Fujimoto, Mr. Tetsu Sugio, professor of Faculty ofTechnology, went to Faculty of Technology of SNU and concluded a researchexchange agreement.In 1992 the relation was promoted to an interuniversity relation. In the earlydays of exchange, the Faculties of Technology and Agriculure were mainlyinvolved in exchange programs. It was the 11th Joint Symposium when theteachers of Faculty of Education and Culture participated in the exchangeprogram: Associate professor Hisae Shinohara and Instructor Yasuo Miyata.In 2005 the Faculty of Education and Culture sent out students to SNU forthe first time. Then there have been various forms of exchanges by teachers andstudents.Sunchon National UniversityThis school was established in 1935 in Sunchon as a national university to enlightenracial consciousness and to develop able human resources. Then the school wasgradually expanded and was reorganized and promoted to the university in 1991. Ithas now five faculties (Agriculture, Human and Society, Natural Science, Technology,and Teachers’ Training) and one general graduate school and four special graduateschools. The number of undergraduates is 12,000; graduates 1,100; teachers andofficials 450.＜Faculty of Oriental Language and Literature＞ ＜A campus view from the Japanese Department＞