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Introduction
About The School
Established in 2008, the Semyung Graduate School of Journalism is the first graduate school for journalistic professionalism in Korea.
We provide courses for personal enrichment to each student based on a practice-oriented curriculum, which also empowers students to comprehend humanities, social sciences, and ethical standards. In doing so, we aim to help students become competent journalists. We also offer various scholarships, including free on-campus housing for all students.
Our faculty members have years of field experience as outstanding reporters, columnists, and producers in Korea's major print and broadcast media. They also obtained their academic degrees from leading universities in Korea and abroad, making them uniquely qualified in both practice and theory. Through a one-on-one coaching system with students, faculty members help each student create their future career plan and find ways to achieve it.
We now have more than 300 graduates working in journalism and related fields. Our graduates hold pivotal positions in the media industry, including newspapers, broadcasters, and internet media outlets across the country.
About The Danbi News
The Danbi News is a non-profit media organization run by the Semyung Graduate School of Journalism. It was founded in 2010 to help students to practice rigorous reports with advanced skills.
The Danbi News investigates and reports solely for the public interest, without being influenced by political or economic interests. It has consistently reported on issues such as the climate crisis, inequality, poverty, and regional marginalization that have been neglected by the mainstream media. For this reason, it has been recognized as one of the top nonprofit media in Korea.
Many stories of The Danbi News have won prestigious awards in Korea. Furthermore, Some of the special features in The Danbi News has been published as books such as <People on the Cliff>, <Sorrowful on the Twilight Road>, <The Last Emergency Exit>, and <Which University Did You Graduate From>, which received rave reviews.
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History SemyungUniversity
- 2026
- 03 <Korea+People> was officially screened at the 4th Twinkle Documentary Film Festival
- 03 Appointment of Professor Im Jang-won
- 02 <Finding Hope in the Age of Climate Crisis> was published as an E-book
- 01 Inauguration of the 3rd Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, Dr. Ahn Soo-chan
- 2025
- 12 “The Shadow of a University without University Press” won the Grand Prize in the 1st University Journalists Awards held by the Lifein·University News Network
- 12 <Mugunghwa on the Taebaek Line, a Report on Disappearing Things> won the Grand Prize in the 2025 Audience Media Awards held by Korea Communications Commission
- 09 <Korea+People> was officially screened in ‘Made in Jecheon Division’ at the 21st Jecheon International Music Film Festival
- 07 <Wintering: Professor Honeybee’s First Winter> was aired at KBS Open Channel
- 06 Danbi News was selected as a beneficiary institution by IFCN(International Fact Checking Network) BUILD 2025
- 05 <nfinity Challenger> was aired at KBS Open Channel
- 05 <Old-timer> was aired at the MBC Chungbuk’s viewer participation program, Viewer FLEX
- 04 <The Snail Bride> was aired at the KTV viewer participation program, KTV Independent Art Theater
- 03 “No.6 Boy: children walking on the fence” was received the Encouragement Prize in the 7th Investigative Reporting Competition hosted by the Korea News Agency Commission
- 2024
- 11 “The Forest Fire, Who’s going to put out?” was received Open Data of the Year at the Korea Data Journalism Awards
- 11 <My heart is coming and going with the play> was officially selected at the Incheon Disabled People’s Rights Film Festival
- 11 <The Snail Bride> was aired on OBS viewer participation program, Dreaming U
- 11 <Old-timer> was aired on MBC Chungbuk’s viewer participation program, Viewer FLEX
- 09 <Jecheon After COVID-19> was aired on KBS Open Channel
- 08 <A Symphony of life Part 1·2> aired on MBC Chungbuk’s veiwer participation program, Viewer FLEX
- 08 Appointment of Professor Chong Eun-ryung, Lee Gyu-yeon
- 08 Established the Department of Journalism Innovation
15 Students enrolled in the first class of department of Journalism Innovation - 07 Collaborated with six local media outlets in Chungbuk region, including MBC Chungbuk and the Okcheon News, as part of the <Team Local C> initiative
- 06 <The Shadow of the Convenience of Working at Night> was aired at KBS Open Channel
- 03 <FC Avenir, dribble our hopes up to on one percent> was aired at KBS Open Channel
- 03 Collaborated with Newneek on producing short-form content
- 2023
- 12 <Drugs, the reason why you shouldn’t do it> was selected for the content contest by MBC Chungbuk’s viewer participation program, Viewer FLEX
- 12 <The Story of Wook> was received the Excellence Award from the Korea Communications Commision at the 2023 Audience Media Awards
- 12 <Symphony of Life, 7th Movement> was received six awards, including the Grand Prize, Excellence Award and Encouragement Award, at the 2023 Chungbuk Generation Empathy Memory-Making Contest, organized by the Chungbuk Institute for Talent and Lifelong Education
- 09 “Gone Bees, Land of Pesticides” won the Excellence Award in the 4th Enterprise Reporting Contest held by Hankukilbo
- 09 “Vacant Homes in Jecheon” won the Grand Prize in the Enterprise Reporting Contest for Prospective Journalists, held by the Song Geon-ho Memorial Association
- 03 Appointment of Professor Park Jung-yong
- 2022
- 10 “Report on Grassroots Makgeolli Extinction” won the Encouragement prize at the 5th Investigative Reporting Competition hosted by the Korea News Agency Commission
- 10 <Which College Did You Go to?> was selected for the 2022 Sejong Books in genenral Knowledge Category
- 09 ‘Semyung University Press Awards’ contest was established
- 05 <GPS and Handcart>, 2021 KPF-Semyung University Investigative Journalism Diploma Project, won the Grand prize in the 49th Korea Broadcasting Prizes
- 05 Renamed Semyung University Graduate School of Journalism(저널리즘대학원)
- 05 “My Refugee Diary” was selected as a ‘In-depth Reporting Support Project’ in Korea Press Foundation
- 05 “A punctured Marriage Immigrant Visa” won the Excellence Prize at the Enterprise Reporting Contest by the Hankukilbo
- 05 <A Report of 2030 Regional Politics> was selected by the Korea Press Foundation as our local news creator support project
- 05 MOU between Graduate School of Journalism and MBC Chungbuk in Youth Politics Press Collaboration
- 05 <Which College Did You Go To?s> was reprinted
- 2021
- 11 <A Basic Income Story of the Pandong Elementary School> won the grand prize in the TV on air division at the 2021 Audience Media Awards
- 10 <A Plover, Flies> won the grand prize in the environment division at the 2021 Audience Media Awards
- 06 “Abandoned Village, Abandoned People-Report on the Status of Hansen Settlements” won the Grand prize at the 4th Investigative Reporting Competition hosted by the Korea News Agency Commission
- 01 “2021 A Report on the Reclusive Youth” won the Encouragement prize at the 4th Investigative Reporting Competition hosted by the Korea News Agency Commission
- 01 Dr. Jae Jeong-im was appointed as a 2nd Representative and Publisher of the Danbi News
- 01 Newstapa-Semyung University Graduate School of Journalism founded a Report Planning Contest
- 01 Korea Press Foundation – Semyung University Graduate School of Journalism established a ‘Investigative Reporting Diploma’
- 01 “We Are All Minorities” was selected for the Korea Press Foundation’s Enterprise Reporting Contest Journalism Support Program
- 01 Retirement of Professor Lee Bong-soo
- 01 <Which College Did You Go To?> was published
- 01 “Medical Gap in the Chungbuk Region” was selected by the Korea Press Foundation as our local news creator support project
- 01 “Inside and Outside School Violence: The Space Where Victims Are Hidden” won the Excellence Prize at Enterprise Reporting Contest by the Hankukilbo.
- 01 Appointment of the Professor Ahn Soo-chan
- 01 “Unstable Workers Double-ringed Industrial Insurance” won the Grand Prize in the 3rd Investigative Reporting Competition hosted by the Korea News Agency Commission
- 2020
- 11 MOU with the Newstapa in the field of Investigative Journalism
- 05 “Intensive Verification of Major Issues in the Book Price System” won the Encouragement Award by the 3rd Fact-checking Awards in Korea Federation of Broadcast Journalists
- 11 ‘Semyung Current Affairs Report Plan Contest’ was founded
- 11 <The Last Emergency> was selected as Environmental Books of the year
- 11 10th Anniversary of the Danbi News
- 11 “Suffocation Disaster in Confined Spaces” was selected as Enterprise Reporting Support Project in Korea Press Foundation
- 11 Semyung Journalistic Criticism Contest was founded
- 11 “Residential Rights of Foreign Workers Trapped in Greenhouse Containers” won the Grand prize at the 2nd Investigative Reporting Competition hosted by the Korea News Agency Commission
- 11 Appointment of the Professor Shim Seok-tae
- 11 Hosted the 20th Journalism Camp for prospective journalists
- 2019
- 12 <After the Escape> won the Grand prize in the Broadcast Video category by 2019 Audience Media Awards
- 12 <The Last Emergency> was published
- 11 ‘Fund Scholarship’, a full tuition scholarship, was founded
- 07 Inauguration of the 2nd Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, Dr. Jae Jeong-im
- 03 <Top 20 Trending Current Affairs> was published as an E-book
- 2018
- 12 “The Great Energy Transition” was awarded the First Data Journalism Award
- 12 “The Great Energy Transition” was awarded as a Good Report of the year 2018 held by Citizens United for Democratic Press
- 12 200th Journalists discharged, including Reporters and Producers
- 10 signed an industry-academia cooperation with Chosunbiz
- 07 signed an industry-academia cooperation with Hankyung.com
- 05 A Seminar ‘Experiments and Challenges of the Innovative Model for Journalism Education’ was held as the 10th anniversary of Graduate School
- 2017
- 12 The Journalism Institute affiliated with Semyung University was established
- 10 The Danbi News was granted as a non-profit corporation(Chungchungbuk-do)
- 03 The 10th students enrolled in the graduate school of journalism
- 2016
- 11 won the Grand Prize in the 3rd Corporate Photo Contest by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- 07 Seoul metropolitan government- Danbi News signed an MOU, joint series “Seoul in my hand”
- 04 Ferry Sewol on-site investigator” of the Danbi News was reprinted in Kyunghyang Shinmun, Oh my news
- 2015
- 12 A Content Cooperation with Another 100 Years, Hankyeoreh21, Kyunghyang Shinmun, Pressian
- 10 A Producer Training Studio was established
- 06 An agreement for the dispatch of educational trainees with Hankyeoreh21
- 2014
- 11 100th Journalists discharged including Reporters and Producers
- 10 An Intensively introduced in the <an Innovative Model of Journalism Education> by Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies
- 10 Introduced as ‘Korea’s only Degree Program with Effective Practical Training’ in <Newspaper and Bradcasting> by Korea Press Foundation
- 09 “Unprotected in the scorching heat, the scene of life-threatening labor” was awarded by Samsung Press Foundation of the ‘First University Student Investigative Reporting Awards’
- 01 Implement of the Tutorial for the first time in Korea
- 2013
- 11 <Sorrowful on the Twilight Road> was published
- 10 Contents Cooperation with KBS <A Young Reporter is coming>
- 06 Contents Cooperation with Hankyoreh “I am a Farmer”
- 01 the Danbi Library(Book Cafe) was established
- 2012
- 11 <People on the Cliff> was selected as a Excellent General Education Books by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and was also awarded as a Human Rights Books of the year by the Korea Human Rights Foundation
- 04 <People on the Cliff> was published
- 2011
- 02 The Danbi News Editing ·Production studio was established
- 01 The Danbi News won the Grand Prize in the Sisain University Journalists Award
- 2010
- 08 MOU with the Joongangilbo
- 06 Launched The Danbi News as a non-profit media
- 02 Master’s Degree Ceremony of 1st Entered Students
- 2009
- 07 Hosted the first Journalism Camp for a prospective journalists
- 03 ‘Lecture for Humanities and Social Issues’ are open to the public, without any cost, for the first time in Korea
- 02 Agricultural journalists training course(The Daesan Agriculture Foundation support aproximately 30,000,000won of tuition fund every year) was settled
- 2008
- 09 “The Cradle of Prepared Journalists” was reported at Kyunghyang Shinmun
- 03 Entered 1st Students of the school
- 03 Inauguration of the first Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, Dr. Lee Bong-soo
- 02 Commemorative Reception of the School opening(Press Center)
- 2007
- 11 Press interview of establishment of Graduate School of Journalism, Semyung University for the first time in Korea.(Chosun Hotel). 13 media report including Kyunghyang, Chosun, Hankyeorae, KBS
- 11 Authorization for establishment of Graduate School of Journalism, Semyung University