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Many National Celebrities Visit CNU for Special Lectures - Rep. Kim Keun-tae, Japanese Ambassador to Korea Takano Toshiyuki, and Lawmaker-Elect Roh Hoi-chan

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Many national celebrities visit the CNU campus to give special lectures in May 2004, commemorating the 24th anniversary of the May 18 Pro-democracy Movement. On May 18, Kim Keun-tae, former floor leader for the Uri Party, gave a special lecture under the title of “The Present and Future of the Spirit of the May 18 Movement.” The lecture was held at Yongbong Hall with over three hundred people attending. Lawmaker-elect Kang Ki-jeong (Uri Party member elected at the Buk-gu Gap constituency in Gwangju), lawmaker-elect Woo Yoon-keun (Uri Party member elected at the Gwangyang-Gurye constituency), Gwangju Buk-gu District Chief Kim Jae-kyun, CNU staff, faculty, and students attended the lecture. On May 20, Japanese Ambassador to Korea Takano Toshiyuki delivered a special lecture on “The Relationship between Korea and Japan in the 21st Century.” The Graduate School of Public Administration (Dean Chung Jong-hyu) invited him for its Executive Program. The lecture was held at room 301A of the Graduate School Bldg. The Graduate School of Public Administration holds a series of special lectures for its Executive Program, which offers experienced business leaders an in-depth opportunity to explore the pivotal concepts of innovation, administration, and organizational vision and to apply their new insights to their own professional practice. Currently the Executive Program has 50 participants, who are engaged in legal circles, journalism, political parties, and business world. Led by the Public Administration College’s most distinguished faculty, the integrated core program offers a series of invited lectures to give participants opportunities to use multidisciplinary approaches to their own insights and knowledge. On May 25, Roh Hoi-chan, secretary-general of the Democratic Labor Party, will visit CNU for his lecture. He will talk on “The Spirit of the May 18 Democracy Movement and the Lives of the Public.” CNU Counseling Center invited Roh to give a lecture.