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Busan Nakdong River Project Management Office Signs MOU with Tongmyong University to Strengthen Youth Employment Competencies

Aug 15, 2025 12  Views
◈ The first cooperative case in Korea between a local government’s Wildlife Treatment Center and a university’s Department of Zoology, aimed at nurturing talent and enhancing employment competencies through collaboration with the university’s zoology program

◈ Busan Nakdong River Project Management Office will provide hands-on training using hospital-level medical equipment, and Tongmyong University will cooperate through credit management and linkage with its curriculum … expected to improve local youth employment competitiveness and the quality of the City’s environmental policies
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Busan Nakdong River Project Management Office (hereinafter referred to as the “Office”) announced that yesterday (14th) afternoon, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Strengthening Youth Employment Competencies in Animal-Related Fields with Tongmyong University (President Lee Sang-chun). This agreement was promoted to enhance young people’s on-site practical skills by utilizing various human and material infrastructure such as the Wildlife Treatment Center operated by the Office and combining it with Tongmyong University’s education, training, and credit-based program experience in animal-related departments.


This is the first case in the country of cooperation between a local government’s Wildlife Treatment Center (hereinafter referred to as the “Center”) and a university’s Department of Zoology to foster young talent and strengthen employment competencies. The agreement includes educational support for nurturing young talent, provision of professional field training opportunities, and credit system management and linkage with the curriculum. The Center is equipped with various medical devices including a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), C-ARM surgical imaging device, and digital X-ray detector equivalent to those used in university animal hospitals. It also has laboratories and research facilities for diagnosing wildlife diseases, making it the only institution in Busan capable of improving treatment rates through analysis of injury causes and establishing a disease diagnosis database.


Although the animal-related industry has recently been rapidly growing, universities with zoology departments still lack the necessary employment support infrastructure. The Office expects that this MOU will enhance both the employment competitiveness of local youth and the quality of the City’s environmental policies. In addition, in the first half of this year (2025), the Office opened its Wildlife Treatment Center to strengthen the youth employment competencies of students in animal-related departments, and provided basic wildlife examinations, trauma treatment, rescue and rehabilitation practice, and animal ecology lectures for 30 students from Silla University’s animal-related department.


Kim Kyung-hee, Director of the Busan Nakdong River Project Management Office, stated, “This MOU will provide Tongmyong University students with practical on-site experience, thereby strengthening youth employment competitiveness and contributing to the protection of the local ecosystem,” adding, “We will continue expanding the network to include more universities and institutions in the future.”

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