KNU Alumni Mails

From the begining in Fall, 1996...
Below this line is what happened in Fall, 1996 among KNU alumni of 
the world. Mails in order of which I received by e-mail.


From: "KIM YOUNG-HOON" (PGKY@geography.leeds.ac.uk)
Organization:  School of Geography
To: wwoo@sipi.usc.edu
Date:          Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:47:42 GMT
Subject:       Newsletter for the Alumni

Hi, Mr Woo:
This is Young Hoon Kim, studying in the UK. How have you been?
Do you remember me? It doesn't matter even though you don't know.
I have moved to Leeds University from Edinburgh University to study
my subject in Ph.D. Course. I will be stayed here for at least 3
years. During that times, I hope the foreign alumni of KNU will be
well. I already updated my information changed on the Web page for
foreing KNU Alumni. Please check it out!
Besides, I have an idea for developing this organisation.
I hope you will read it carefully and hearty
That is,
How about to publish an NEWLETTER for all foreign KNU alumni and our
juniors in KNU, Korea?
I think the newletter will be very useful and helpful to exchange
information of USA, UK, JAPAN, and any other countries' alumni
members.
I know it is quite difficult and takes times and costs. But, in
Korean maxim, To start already finished a half in our work(?).
Probably, this newletter will be good for the students in KNU, who are
preparing and to plan their oversea studies.
In my experience, when I first planned my study of UK in KOREA, I was
really concerned about the UK situations and wanted to connect with
other KOREAN students. But, It was not easy to listen the UK
university life and styles. Until now, I have kept in my mind
valuable experiences through trial-and-error.
We including you and I therefore should not allow the difficulities
to our juniors studying at KNU, who want to study in here or US.
As a first stage, I think, the Web page on your private web has given
a lot of many merits to foreing alumni members.
In my opinion, as a next stage for developing the web page, we have
to think about more tangible and visible communications, for example,
NEWSLETTER or something. Through the Newletter, we can say our major
subjects in detail and discuss about them. Furthermore, the newletter
can give each country's news including academic and gossips and then
send it to KNU with each university's study information.
Mr. Woo! This mail is quite too long for reading. But, I would be
pleased you would reply for my idea soon.
Thank you very much for your concern for KNU Foreign Alumni. I really
want to thank you with my heart.
I hope your study will be very well and best wishes!
See you soon.

Regards.


Young Hoon Kim
Ph.D. student
School of Geography
The University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
(E-mail) : pgky@geography.leeds.ac.uk
(Tel) : Home 44-113-262-7210
        Office: 44-233-3348

Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 15:46:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: byounggi (byounggi@scf.usc.edu)
To: wwoo@sipi.usc.edu
Subject: Re: "Fwd: Newsletter for the Alumni"

Hello There....

Your Idea regarding on the publishing a newsletter seems great one.

I have my machine named "korea.usc.edu,"  and, of course, can provide it
to make our own home page, a mail forwarding system, and Bulletin Board
System to handling "KNU alumni outside Korea Newsletter," and for better
communication.
Thank you..

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Park, Byoung-Gi since 1962  ¶(A man belongs to a woman)
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School:¶HED216, Department of Chemical Engineering
Los Angeles, California 90089-1211
(213)740-7652
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Home:¶1220 West 28th Street Helena #9
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213)764-9415
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Net:Home page
byounggi@scf.usc.edu
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From: glee@pobox.asc.upenn.edu (Gangheong Lee)
Subject: Re: "Fwd: Newsletter for the Alumni"
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:57:12 -0400

Dear KNU Alumni;

        I am very pleased to hear the voices of our KNU alumni from all of
the countries. As we had a experience, we were very hard to get an
information of the universities at which we wanted to study. Even though our
KNU students have very good intelligence and ability, relatively there are
not so many students studying abroad, compared to other universities like
HanYang University,from which a lot of stupid guys, as of my experience at
Penn, came to U.S. and other.
        So it will be very good to have any channel to connect us to each
other as well as current juniors at KNU. So, even though it is very
difficult to publish newsletter , it will be valuable and useful.
        First of all, I would like to make KNU newsgroup at Internet. I
don't have any knowledge to make this.
        Second, in order to accomplish this project, I think we should
contact with our KNU to get some financial supports. For example, Foreign
Study Institute is the very department which is relevant to our project. As
you experienced, when we visted that department, we realized that there are
fewer information. Specifically, there was no information of our almuni
studying abroad. If Foreign Study Institute has our information studying
abroad, it will be great for our juniors to prepare or settle down in their
universities which they will study for M.A. or Ph.D. So Please give me your
opinions about this. If everybody agree, I will contact with our KNU, which
I think I can do.
        Anyway, good news and pleased.

Bye,

GangHeong Lee (85')
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Ph.D. candidate (Mass Communication and Journalism)
3620 Walnut Street, The Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104

(O) 215-898-5388
(H) 215-879-5457

e-mail: glee@pobox.asc.upenn.edu

Sender: wwoo@sipi.usc.edu
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:25:30 -0700
From: Woon-Tack Woo (wwoo@sipi.usc.edu)
Subject: KNU_Alumni Newsletter...

Dear, KNU Alumni;

This is Woon-Tack Woo at USC.

First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks
to Young-Hoon Kim for his valuable suggestion on "KNU alumni
Newsletter." And also I appreciate all immediate responses
you have made until now.

I also agree to the point that it's the time to start
something for our junior in Korea as well as ourselves.

Though, until now, a few people have joined in discussion,
they have pointed out some reasonable solutions as well as
valuable suggestions. What a great !!!

I also believe that most people will agree to this idea.
Please, feel free to join in and make it together,
especially, if you have better ones...

Here are summarized opinions on this subject.

¶
¶He proposed a "KNU Alumni Newsletter."

¶
¶He suggested to make an internet newsgroup to
¶increase communication efficiency.

¶
¶He pointed out that we neet to spread words widely
¶to let other alumni know our activites.

The most good news is here;

¶
¶He is willing to provide his machine, "korea.usc.edu",
¶for alumni related usage.

In addition to, G. Lee will contact Foregin Study
Institute at KNU to request some (finential) support,
if there is no special objection.

Also, S. Yoo are going to contact
Prof. Jong-Hyun Lee who is(was) in charge of EE_alumni
to request his support on our activity.


My $0.02 opinion:
I really hope to hear the good news you, Lee & Yoo, may
broadcast in near future.

And many many thanks to Byoung-Gi heong.
I think he made our life much easier... Using his machine
we can get our own BBS and emailing system as well as
our NEW web page.

Hopefully, if needed, it may help us raise money from
some Korean Companies such as Samsung, Hyundai, LG,
DaeWoo, etc.
How to spread words? One way to contact our junior is
to use well known BBS such as Hitel, Chollian, Nownuri,
KIDS, etc. There are some boards for KNU alumni.
Also KNU has its own home web page.

However, unfortunately, there is no way to get the
information on alumni in abroad. This is why we want
and have to make our own place. The current alumni
home page has been connected to KNU home page for
that purpose.

Now, there remains one difficult problem as Mr. Yoo
pointed out. We may need to think about who
will take charge of this HARD work...
Also, it is a NEW experiment to organize a community
since, at this point, we only can meet each other
in the cyber space.
Thanks.

W. Woo at USC

P.S. Please check and update your information at
http://sipi.usc.edu/~wwoo/KNU
Also, if you want to remove your name from this emailing
list, please let me know that.
¶
--
Woon-Tack Woo
SIPI, EE-Systems, USC, LA, CA, USA
Email: wwoo@sipi.usc.edu
URL: http://biron.usc.edu/~wwoo

From: "KIM YOUNG-HOON" (PGKY@geography.leeds.ac.uk)
Date:          Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:26:43 GMT
Subject:       Re: KNU_Alumni Newsletter...

Thank you for your messages, especially Mr. Woo and other guys.
Yes! All messages I have got are valuable to our joniors and
ourselves. As Mr. Woo pointed out, it is not easy to find
volunteer(s) for this job. It really needs extra time and invisible
hard working. I agree with Woo, but, I have got ideas for solving
this problems. I am not sure the following suggestions would be
cheered by everybody.

1th Idea: Let us select the volunteer, who can send the letters to
the office of The Institute for the Foreign Study in KNU. Maybe it is
important to select official people who can contact to KNU. We have
already got the mails for this idea. Let us think about that!

2nd Idea: I will edit and print the file(s) if you can make your
information and news by the Hangul wordprocessor of Hangul &
Computer Corp. I have got the Windows' 95 version of that. So I can
print the file(s) if you make them or send to my E-mail directory.
Unfortunately, I have no idea the possibility of whether I can
download the file through FTP from your directories.
I think FTP is most useful and time-saving. Please let us know that if
you have good idea for this.

3rd Idea : Time is Money. So, we should decide on which most useful
and better is, either Newletter or other methods, such as BBS,
Newsgroup or etc.

Everybody, Please let's send your opinions clearly and quickly
to us. Yes! I know we are very very very busy, everyday and everytime
to survive in your campus life. Maybe you have lived with stresses
from a lot of essays and practices, and seminars, lectures, or etc.
So, don't hesitate to think about it deeply.
Try it and do it!
Think big, but, small start!
Anyway, I am sure you have the potential abilities.

Regards.

Young Hoon Kim
School of Geography
The University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
E-mail : pgky@geography.leeds.ac.uk
Tel : (Home) 44-113-262-7210
      (Office) 44-113-233-3348

From: glee@pobox.asc.upenn.edu (Gangheong Lee)
Subject: Re: KNU_Alumni Newsletter...
Cc: glee@pobox.asc.upenn.edu
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:35:17 -0400

 Reply to Young-Hoon Kim's suggestion from GangHeong Lee;

>1th Idea: Let us select the volunteer, who can send the letters to
>the office of The Institute for the Foreign Study in KNU. Maybe it is
>important to select official people who can contact to KNU. We have
>already got the mails for this idea. Let us think about that!

Response: That is exactly what I suggested to our alumni before. The reasons
why I wanted to do are three-fold;

First, Our studying-abroad-KNU alumni-community is very useful to us,
alumni, as well as to our juniors who really want to study abroad but feel
frustrated due to the lack of information and confidence as a so-called
'local university student'. I had real experience like this when I prepared
to study abroad. This is more true of students majoring social science or
humanities like me than engineering major. 'Newsletter' idea is the one to
focus on, I think, our intra-alumni communication instead of
inter-communication between almuni studying abroad and juniors in KNU.
Therefore, if we use Foreing Study Institute in KNU (FSI later), this will
be; a) a really good communication channel between almuni and juniors, b)
good stimuli to encourage our    juniors, c) a useful information bulletin
to guide us and our juniors.  This is exactly matched with the goal which
Foreign Study Institute in KNU set.

Second, it is related to the Young-Hoon's concerns with time and cost in
publishing newsletter. If we want to publish newsletter in printed format,
we need money for copying newsletter and sending them to us in the world. It
is much time-consuming and cost-spending.  I think this is , as a student
studying in the outland, a little bit beyond our capacity in terms of money
and time even though it is not possible idea. However, if we want to publish
our newsletter in electronic format like Mr. Byunggi's idea such as at the
homepage, this is different story. Even though we do the electronic
publishing, we should seek for the efficient way of communicating this to
our juniors, I think, that is possible through FSI in KNU, and KNU weekly
newspaper in KNU.

Three, If we use FSI in KNU, our community studying abroad will be official
and influential organization in our KNU. I think that we, as an alumni, are
good intellectual resource and would contribute to our KNU's future
progress/development. As we could see in the Korean newspaper, now the
educational evaluation system of universities in Korea is getting adopted.
So alumni activities are also one of evaluation criteria. So, our community
will be good instrument to promote our KNU's image.

This is my reasons to prefer using FSI in KNU. How to do it?
I think most information about us such as local address, telephone, major,
university in foreign country, and each individual's activity should be
converged to FSI through electronic mail or Internet. After gathering this
information monthly or seasonaly, whatever it is, FSI in KNU could publish
newsletter in Korean or English (I think publishing in English is also good)
and re-distribute us and juniors in KNU. This means FSI in KNU is going to
be headquarters and we will be some kind of branches like East Coast branch,
West Coast branch, and Mid-West branch, England branch, Japan branch. We can
select a representative of each branch to gather the information and
participate in publishing newsletter.

This is my idea.

Related to 'Newsgroup in Internet', newsgroup is also good but should not be
official communication channel. I think this is more informal gossip or chat
channel among our alumni studying abroad.
Anyway, thank you very much for your tolerant attention. I hope to get your
opinion.

GangHeong Lee

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Ph.D. candidate ('85, Masscommunication and Journalism from KNU)
The Annenber School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

E-mail: glee@pobox.asc.upenn.edu
Telephone: (o) 215-898-5388
           (h) 215-879-5457

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:55:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: byounggi (byounggi@scf.usc.edu)
To: Gangheong Lee (glee@pobox.asc.upenn.edu)
Subject: Re: KNU_Alumni Newsletter...

Hello there:

This issue seems going to be hotter and hottor....Very good....First of
all, I have to pointing-out realizing things what we want to do.

In case, publishing "News Letter" in paper format is an attractive idea,
but not practical, because of money, distance, mailing, etc.
In terms of "News Group" on Internet, we can make our own group, but we
are going to be bothered and have to patient by thousends tons of trash,
and also News Server is going to be slower and slower to handle a lots
of junk pictures and download files. Futhermore, it's almost not
accessable from KNU. For Internet access from KNU, I visited 1994 and
1996 to KNU, and Computing Center right beside to the Central Library.
Internet access envirnment was pretty good from KNU, and we can ask to FSI
installing a computer to acess internet or our Webpage from the office, or
teach student how to use those stuffs. We can ask an account in KNU
machine. However, KNU Computing Service provids three kinds of Internet
hooked-up host for students. It's VAX, Unix, Cray(Super Computer, restrictive
for Grad.). Machine was enough good to use, but thier Network was unbilievably
slow, so that I was hard to connect to my school account in America from
KNU, and same thing happening from America to KNU.

In a sense of contacting with FSI in KNU, if anybody have ever met with
the old lady in the office, he/she would not recommand to contact her. She
have really telented to make good resource and information garbage. I was
really impressed in 1994 and 1996 with her when I droped-by the office.

By the way, I can't help telling something about our purpose of "Alumni
Association," which is I am not believing, our new society will be a
branch of FSI, and also founding this for just help junior. It have to be
a Society under KNU or to be a indepandent organization, not under FSI.
In some reason, we can support our junior or FSI uppon their request, but
it have to be a part of our bussiness. It's Alumni Association, not Office
of Forign Study. We need to be more careful to choose contacting person or
point in KNU.

Thank you.....

¶==========================================================
¶Park, Byoung-Gi since 1962  ¶(A man belongs to a woman)
¶==========================================================
¶School:¶HED216, Department of Chemical Engineering
¶¶Los Angeles, California 90089-1211
¶¶(213)740-7652
¶==========================================================
¶Home:¶1220 West 28th Street Helena #9
¶¶Los Angeles, CA 90007
¶¶(213)764-9415
¶==========================================================
¶Net:¶http://www-scf.usc.edu/"byounggi
¶¶byounggi@scf.usc.edu
¶==========================================================

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