President Yoon Seok-yeol attends Kumoh Institute of Technology job training [사진 제공: 연합뉴스]
President Yoon Seok-yeol said, “Kumoh Institute of Technology is the place where the spirit and breath of President Park Chung-hee, who had excellent insight into the country’s future, promoted the establishment of the university from 1975 and gave his final. approval a month before his death.”
After visiting Kumoh Institute of Technology in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do for the 1st Talent Cultivation Strategy Meeting, President Yoon said, “It is very meaningful to hold the first meeting of the Talent Cultivation Strategy Meeting at Kumoh Institute of Technology, which has produced a lot of technical talents.”
Kumoh Institute of Technology is a four-year university founded by former President Park Chung-hee with the goal of cultivating a high-level technical workforce in his hometown of Gumi.
President Yoon also said, “The only way for a country to survive in the 4th Industrial Revolution and competition for global technological supremacy is to cultivate many outstanding science and technology talents.”
“The reason why we succeeded in industrializing and growing to be an economic powerhouse despite difficult conditions is because we invested in people and nurtured people,” he said. We need to focus our efforts,” he said.
At the same time, referring to the visit to the Technical University of Zurich in Switzerland during a trip abroad, he added, “If there is an engineering field that is deeply connected to our future strategic industry in the area visited in the future, I decided to visit him without fail.”
Before the meeting, President Yoon, who watched the robot arm programming class, encouraged the students, saying, “Seeing you all study, I feel that the country’s hope begins here.”
