JBNU is accelerating the construction of a settlement-oriented glocal model that links expanded international student recruitment through the Glocal University 30 Project with local settlement and start-ups.





JBNU is pursuing a key strategy under the Glocal University 30 Project to recruit 5,000 international students and has secured more than 3,600 international students to date. Furthermore, it is strengthening employment and start-up support so that these students do not simply enroll but can settle in the region after graduation and take on industry-linked roles.





As part of this strategy, the JBNU Startup Support Center (Director Kuk Kyung-su) held the "Global Inbound Start-up Idea Camp" in Jeonju Hanok Village on May 26. The camp was held as part of Jeollabuk-do's 2026 Inbound Start-up Support Program and is a start-up-focused program targeting international students.





The event brought together 48 international students from three provincial universities—JBNU

The Jeonbuk Special Self-Governing Province Environmental Health Center (Director Kim Yong-hyun) and the Jeonbuk Green Environment Support Center (Director Kim Hyun-woo) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on May 26 at Jisandang, Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), to jointly address environmental health issues in the Jeonbuk region and to protect residents' health and foster a sustainable local community.
 
As public attention grows regarding health impacts from various environmental hazards such as the climate crisis, air pollution, household chemicals, and microplastics, the importance of locally based investigations and research, environmental health services, and risk communication to address environmental problems closely tied to regional industrial structure, living environments, and climatic characteristics has continued to be raised.
 
Through this agreement, a cooperative system has been established linking the Green Environment Support Center's capacity for

Geonji Art Hall, the small performance hall of JBNU's Samsung Arts Center, which opened in 1998 and has long been recognized as a cultural space for local residents, has reopened following major renovations.
 
JBNU (President Yang O-bong) held a reopening ceremony on the 22nd in the first-floor lobby of the Samsung Arts Center's Geonji Art Hall. The reopening was undertaken to comprehensively renovate the aging performance venue and transform it into a safer, more comfortable cultural and artistic space.
 
Since its opening, Geonji Art Hall has served as a multi-purpose cultural space where students and local residents together have enjoyed performances, exhibitions, and academic events. However, after approximately 28 years the overall aging of the facilities made improvements increasingly necessary.
 
This project was launched following a donation by Chairperson Kim Jeong-ok of the Kim Hee-kyung European Spiritual Culture Scholarship Foundation, who contributed a total

JBNU is expanding cooperation with global aerospace and defense company Thales Korea and accelerating efforts to train future talent for the defense and space industries.
 
Francois Piolet, CEO of Thales Korea, visited JBNU on May 22 and met with President Yang Oh-bong to discuss ways to expand industry–university collaboration in advanced defense fields. The visit was a follow-up to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on defense talent development and industry–university cooperation signed in March.
 
The two institutions had previously agreed under the MOU to establish a cooperative framework linking education and industry, including training global defense talent, operating scholarship programs, conducting joint research, and promoting internships and mentorships.
 
During the visit, Mr. Piolet visited JBNU's Physical AI Innovation Research Center to receive a briefing on manned–unmanned integrated systems and Physical AI–based R&D, and discussed ways t

The '2026 Jeonbuk Science Dream Nurturing Education,' which will nurture the dreams of scientific talent in the Jeonbuk region, has made a vigorous start.
 
Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Center for Gifted Education in Science (Director Gu Ja-chun) announced on the 23rd that it held the entrance ceremony for the Jeonbuk Science Dream Nurturing Education at the College of Education Science Building and celebrated the new start of 50 elementary students from North Jeolla Province.
 
The program is organized by the North Jeolla Province Lifelong Education Scholarship Promotion Institute, and the JBNU Center for Gifted Education in Science has been commissioned to operate part of the curriculum. The education will run from May to September this year and will focus on four fields—mathematics, biology, geology, and IT convergence—through weekend classes, intensive summer vacation courses, and field trips to strengthen students' scientific inquiry abilities.
 
At the en

Park Jong-seong, President & CEO of Saiplus Co., Ltd., which leads the dissemination of specialized knowledge in chemistry and chemical engineering, has donated KRW 6,000,000 to support the university's development and the education of future scholars.
 
Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) held a donation ceremony on the 26th in the President's Office at the university headquarters, attended by President Yang Oh-bong and Park Jong-seong. The donated funds will be used as a designated fund for the development of the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Chemical Engineering and for improving the educational environment.
 
This donation reflects his intention to fulfill a promise made around the time of the president's inauguration three years ago to donate a designated fund for the university's development.
 
At the ceremony, Mr. Park expressed his hope that the donation will provide valuable support for JBNU students to focus on their studies without financial

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) put into practice the value of sharing created jointly by students and campus members, bringing a warm resonance to the campus. On the 22nd at 1:30 p.m., JBNU held a 'Kongseal Package' distribution event at the Student Town Plaza and delivered packages conveying support to university students nationwide who are facing financial difficulties.
 
'Kongseal' is a student cooperative initiative rooted in the spirit of sharing of our ancestors — the idea that of three beans, one goes to the bird, one to the insect, and the remaining one to people. Since it first began in the second semester of 2018, it has distributed 6,502 packages to 1,526 students nationwide, steadily spreading a culture of sharing across campuses.
 
At the event, packages intended for 240 students from 33 universities nationwide were prepared. Each package contained instant rice and soup provided by the student cooperative, side dishes, snacks, and sponsored items, with an e

The Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Industry‑University Cooperation Regional Child Center Jeonbuk Support Group, operating under commission from Jeollabuk‑do Special Self‑Governing Province, is launching the 'Care–Safety Net Establishment Project' to ensure the safety and protection of children suspected of being abused at home.
 
This initiative, the '함께지킴365' project supported by the Jeonbuk Community Chest of Korea, aims to establish a tailored integrated care system centered on community child centers to ensure that children suspected of abuse are safely protected within the local community and can grow healthily.
 
Currently five community child centers in the province are participating: Jeonju Girin and Chorokbyeol, Iksan Sinhwangdeung, Wanju Iseo, and Jangsu 1318 Happy Zone Didimdol. Each center is running group training programs of more than ten sessions focused on strengthening children’s safety awareness and self‑protection capabilities. T

Last April, selected as a participating university in the Honam‑Jeju regional project of the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET)'s 'Regional STEM Women Talent Development Project (R-WeSET 2.0),' JBNU held the '2026 J-Leaders Activity Team Launch Ceremony' on April 21 and began full-scale activities of the female STEM undergraduate activity teams poised to grow into the next generation of women in science and technology.
 
The J-Leaders Activity Team is a program in which undergraduate and graduate students in STEM form teams with faculty advisors or industry expert mentors to explore career paths in their majors and to strengthen research and practical skills for industrial settings.
 
This year, a total of 24 teams were selected from the College of Engineering, the College of Natural Science, the College of Human Ecology, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Environmental & Bioresource

The laboratory of Professor Dong-jun Park at Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) (College of Engineering, Division of Chemical Engineering) is participating in the 2026 R&D Career Lab Fellowship – Future Physician-Scientist Challenge Track, organized by the Korea Institute for the Development of Scientific and Technological Human Resources (KIRD), and will offer research participation opportunities to medical school students.
 
The R&D Career Lab Fellowship matches undergraduate students from medical, dental, and Korean medicine schools with science and engineering university laboratories and government-funded research institutes to provide hands-on research experience. The program is designed to help students concretize a career as a physician-scientist and strengthen their research capabilities early through laboratory training and expert mentoring.
 
The Future Physician-Scientist Challenge Track focuses on providing experience in defining and solving problems wit

As the strategic importance of the Southeast Asian region grows, the 'Southeast Asia Language Camp,' which offers undergraduate and graduate students from Korean universities opportunities to study specialized foreign languages and gain regional understanding, will be held for the 13th time this year.
 
This camp, which has established itself as a representative program for learning Southeast Asian languages, began in 2019 as a Yeongnam–Honam exchange program between the Jeonbuk National University Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (Director Jeon Je-seong) and the Specialized Foreign Language Project Group at Busan University of Foreign Studies (Director Lee Mi-ji). It later expanded into a nationwide university consortium program and has become a leading specialized foreign language education program, with approximately 780 students from over 60 domestic and international universities participating to date.
 
This year’s camp will be held at Busan University of F

The Divsion of Public Science at JBNU has embarked on cultivating public-sector talent through a special lecture that combined real estate policy and the role of the media. The Divsion of Public Science said it held the '6th Public Science Special Lecture' on the 20th at 2:00 PM at the Global Talent Center, Keunsaram Hall, inviting former Jeonju MBC President Song Ki-won.
 
Organized as part of the College Education Innovation project under the National University Promotion Project, this lecture, themed 'Real Estate and Journalism', was conducted in conjunction with the 'Real Estate Public Law' course taught by Professor Heo Gang-mu.
 
The program was planned to understand how the theoretical framework of Real Estate Public Law, which requires complex regulation and legal interpretation, is conveyed to and consumed by the public through media reporting, and to grasp the current state of the real estate market from a journalism perspective.
 
In the lecture, former presid

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) Department of Climate, Environment and Energy Convergence master's student Kyu-hyun Han (supervisor Professor Seongwook Jin) demonstrated his research capability by receiving an Excellence in Paper Presentation Award at a conference in the field of groundwater and soil environment.
 
At the recent "2026 Spring Conference of the Korean Society of Groundwater and Soil Environment," Han presented a paper titled "Evaluation of Detection Thresholds for Seawater Impact in Synthetic Seawater Intrusion Data Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models" and received the Excellence in Paper Presentation Award in the poster category.
 
The core of this study was to derive detection thresholds for seawater influence in synthetic seawater intrusion data through deep-learning-based analysis and, based on these thresholds, to identify nationwide groundwater monitoring wells suspected of seawater influence.
 
It received academic recognition f

JBNU has launched efforts to strengthen international cooperation with the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine), centering on collaborative research and expanded student exchanges in the biomedical and Physical AI fields, and to pursue an MOU in the future.
 
JBNU announced on the 21st that a delegation composed of key UC Irvine officials recently visited and held close discussions on cooperation measures between the two universities. The visit included Lars Walton, Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff to the Chancellor; Brian Hervey, Vice Chancellor for Advancement and Alumni Relations; Lily Wu, Director of Global External Relations and Chancellor's Advisory Professor; and Professor Hye‑Won Shin, Director of Korea Partnerships.
 
The delegation began with a campus tour, met with President Yang O-bong, visited the International Center and the Physical AI Center, and attended a dinner, during which they directly reviewed JBNU's educational and research infrastructure.

Jeonbuk National University (JBNU) has been finally selected for the large-scale national project, the 'Basic Research Institutes Support Program for Humanities and Social Sciences', which is being promoted as part of the government's 'Create 10 Seoul National Universities' policy. Totaling KRW 20 billion, it is a core project aimed at establishing basic humanities and social sciences research hubs at regional flagship national universities and cultivating regionally based research personnel.
 
This program was newly established to strengthen the research infrastructure in the humanities and social sciences and to revitalize the regional academic ecosystem. The Ministry of Education will select three universities and provide each selected university with KRW 4 billion per year for five years, totaling KRW 20 billion. The support budget will be invested in establishing humanities and social sciences research institutes within universities, building research institute management s