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YeungJin College Launched IT Global Training Program 2008/03/03 By Jung Jae-Hun YeungJin College (President Jang Young-chul) opened a training program to send its students to partner companies overseas and have them experience local corporate culture and learn professional techniques. The college sent 86 students with excellent academic records to Japan and China, and conducted trainings for 5 sectors including imbedded, 3D automobile design, and IT project. It invested 130 mil KRW in the 5-day or 1-month program. On Feb 4th, 21 trainees for automobile design took 3-week program through which they learnt 3D CAD design for automobile parts from local engineers at Asia Solution in Fukuoka, Japan. They plan to upload video clips of their project results on U-Tube. Another 32 trainees took 5-day Imbedded training at Hasama in Tokyo last month, and were put into an on-the-job training for ITRON, imbedded software. Fourteen IT project trainees visited a local IT company, iDEACROSS in Tokyo, Japan, and took a technical training. Ten trainees visited China last month for a week to take training at Posco and Hanjin which are operating in China, and also took a look around the showroom of Haier, the largest home appliances maker in China. YeungJin College has actively offered tailored training for foreign companies, and signed contracts with 44 companies overseas in the US, Japan, China, and others to provide 680 trained workers. It formed partnership in Sep last year with the CompTIA whose members include renowned IT companies around the world including MS, IBM, and SUN. Yeon Kyu-hyun, the head of Academic and Industrial Cooperation, said, “We started the program to have students experience local corporate culture and learn professional techniques by sending them overseas. We will expand the program for more students.”