YU Holds Honorary Doctoral Conferment Ceremony for Samick THK Chairman Jin Young-hwan
Distributed Korea’s first ‘LM system localization’
Emphasized importance of fostering personnel... continuously supported university and made industry-academic cooperation achievements
YU (President Choi Oe-chool) conferred an honorary doctorate of engineering to Samick THK Chairman Jin Young-hwan (74, photo above). This aims at celebrating his contributions to the development of the industrial automation equipment industry.
At the conferment ceremony held at the 3rd floor convention hall at the YU Cheonma Art Center at 4 p.m. On February 25, Chairman Jin receive an honorary doctorate in engineering for his contributions to the growth of the national economy by leading the development of industrial automation equipment.
Chairman Jin said, “It is an honor to receive this honorary doctorate in engineering despite majoring in international trade. Today's Samick THK was made by the hard work of engineers. I believe that I was given this doctorate in engineering to encourage me to lead the age of the fourth industrial revolution with them.” He added, “I am convinced that the culture of precision, excellence and affection. I will continue to lead the company by tirelessly practicing these three cultures. As an entrepreneur, I will engage in social contribution activities in various fields such as industry-academic cooperation, while also working to develop the national economy of Korea.”
Chairman Jin emphasized the mutual development of the local society and university as a mid-size enterprise entrepreneur in Daegu. Chairman Jin often said, “People are the most important part for the growth of companies. Companies and universities must work together for synergy effects and to promote the local economy.” With this belief, he continuously pursued industry-academic cooperation with universities. Over 20 R&D projects were carried out with YU and ‘localization of LM system materials’ is a representative achievement made through joint research with the YU College of Mechanical and IT Engineering.
He also spared to support for the development of the university. He served as a director of the Yeungnam School for four years from October 2014 and has so far donated over 500 million KRW as development funds to YU. YU used the development funds provided by Chairman Jin to construct the ‘Samick THK Lounge’ on the first-floor lobby of the YU Mechanics Hall in 2019.
