From left to right: Han-wool Kang (Coordinator, KU Office of International Affairs) Youngdal Kim (Director, KU Office of International Affairs), Sungyoun Kim (KU Professor of Politics), Heedon Ahn (KU Professor of English Language and Literature), Kwangsoo Kim (KU Vice President for International Affairs), Sang-Gi Min (KU Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs), Xiaoli Xu (Southwest University Deputy Party Secretary and Vice President), Yue Chen (Dean, Southwest University’s Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration), Chengyu Liu (Deputy Director, Southwest University’s Office of Teaching Affairs), Lin Tan (Dean, Southwest University’s Faculty of Cultural and Social Development), Zhimin Tan (Deputy Director, Southwest University’s Office of International Cooperation and Exchanges), Peng Wu (Secretary, Institute of International Studies)
On June 9, 2016, a Southwest University delegation led by Deputy Party Secretary Xiaoli Xu visited Konkuk University. The delegation met with KU Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Sang-Gi Min and held a discussion on joint seminars, inviting guest speakers, and exchanging students. Located in Chongqing, Southwest University has approximately 40,000 undergraduate students, 11,000 graduate students, and 700 international students. It is part of “Project 211,” an initiative by the Chinese government to raise 100 globally competitive universities for the 21st century. Since 2009, thirty Southwest University students have studied at KU.