Graduate College of Design Selected for Fourth Stage Brain Korea 21 Project

Dongseo University was selected for the Fourth Stage Brain Korea 21 (BK21) project organized by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea. It is to receive a total of 2.1 billion won in funding over the next 7 years.
Dongseo University’s Fourth Stage BK21 project team from the College of Design includes Professors Lee Seong-pil Lee (team leader), Jang Ju-yeong, Seo Han-seok, Yoon Jiyeong, Hong Gwan-seon, and Lee Dong-hoon.

In relation to the Fourth Stage BK21 project, the Ministry of Education announced that its selection of universities was based on their capability to practically perform research results in the future through qualitative evaluation, selection, and concentration.

For this round of applications, DSU’s Graduate College of Design’s successful approach was on the subject of “Service Design-Based Social Innovation Education Research,” and, as detailed research content, the project will be conducted focusing on regional community service design and product-service system design.

In particular, DSU is in fact the only tertiary institution in the country that has been selected in the field of service design, and it was noted that its application was evaluated on the excellence of the systematic educational and research achievements built over the past 12 years by the Service Design Department of the DSU Graduate College of Design.

The ten universities selected for the Fourth Stage BK21 project were DSU, Pusan National University, Seoul National University, ChungAng University, KAIST, Ewha Womans University, Hanyang University, Yeungnam University, Inje University, and Chungnam National University.