STUDY WITH BEST TECHNOLODGY, FAST GROWING ECONOMY, FRIENDLY PEOPLE AND GUARANTEED EMPLOYMENT

Samsung, LG, Hyundai, KIA are some of the products that we Sri Lankans use in our day today life. All these are proud products of South Korea. Asia’s 4th best economy and world’s 11th best economy ahead of Australia and New Zealand. It is a privilege for any student to complete his or her’s university education in South Korea.

GLOBAL ACADEMY OF FURTHER EDUCATION ( GAFE ) hosed in Nugegoda is with over a decade of expertise in finding student placements for local students in Foreign universities offer the Kyungdong University for International students in South Korea. This university offers many educational streams in English medium. The tuition is very affordable. Students are allowed to work part time and part time jobs are in abundance.

Kyungdong University popularly known as KDU, was founded in 1981. Its founding name was Dong-U College. This school aimed to develop students to become holistic, well-rounded, creative, humanistic, faithful, and practical professionals. It was organized as a professionalized two-year college teaching Business Administration, Accounting, Public Administration, Tourism, Food and Nourishment, and Early Childhood Education to help the development of the community. Dong-U College had successfully developed more practical courses such as Computer Science, Production Management, and Dental Technology.

In 1997, Kyungdong University was founded with global and international extension goals. More community based and globalized professionals were produced. Kyungdong has been trying to serve the community’s educational needs such as Regional Innovation System (RIS), Commerce, Industry & Energy, Deep Ocean Water, Leisure & Resort, and Social Welfare.

Professsior John Lee is the ViceChancellor and President at Kyungdong University Global Campus in Korea. He is an Australian Citizen. He holds BSc (Physics), ME (Computer Science), and PhD (Computer Science, Sydney University ). He has over 39 years of industrial, research, academic and managerial experience. In particular he has been Vice-Chancellor/President of Universities/Colleges in Australia and Korea for 20 years.

He was the founding President of MacArthur College of Information Technology in Australia from 1997 for 8 years.

He has published numerous research and technical papers in the areas of Advanced Data Base Technology (transaction processing algorithms, concurrency control and recovery algorithms, hot spot handling algorithms), Algorithm Modelling and Verification, Software Engineering, Total Quality Management Systems (process, defect prevention and removal, quality modelling and tracking, metrics, project audit, project management, quality control and assurance, quality benchmarking), some of which resulted in commercial products.

He served as Project Leader and Technical Leader and managed many international research & development projects which were highly successful and produced significant results. The major projects he led include: STARVIEW, OS/2 LAN development, and Master Plan for Software Total Quality Management System.

The STARVIEW project involved development of database utilities for DB2, SQL/DS and AS/400 and OS/2 Database Manager and Professor Lee was a Technical Leader - Design and Testing - for this project. It was a large- scale project in partnership with IBM Santa Teresa Lab, IBM Toronto Lab, IBM Rochester, and IBM Austin Lab. As the Project Leader of the Marketing Tools Development project, sponsored by the IBM Asia/Pacific Headquarters, he developed a tool based on OS/2 Presentation Manager to analyse and predict the marketing situations.

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