Visit of the ex-dean, my friend
Prof. Haksoo Mok visited KIMIRo on April 27. 2021. He is ex-dean of Busan National Univ. He is my old friend. We shared our days in Germany as Doktorand, Haksoo in Aachen, me in Stuttgart.
2021-04-27 00:00:00
Coffee chat booking in Oct 2044
Very rare series of holiday will come in 2044. From Oct 1st until 9th, 9 day-long official holidays ! I booked a coffee chat with a friend during the holiday. Guess whether it works.
2021-04-22 00:00:00
10,000-step walk competition
During March 2021 we had a 10,000-step walk competition for one month long in March among friends. My record was 453,230 steps for one month long. Actually I keep workout on treadmill for 1 hour early in the morning during last 20 years. But this time somewhat special because I have to hold mobile phone to activate during workout, simple but little bit annoying! Finally very successful result. Exceptionally on March 19th I got 41,525 steps a day for 5 hours. Equivalent to 33 km ! I felt dizzy even dizzy.
2021-04-01 00:00:00
Rendezvous after 40 years
1981 I was in Germany for Ph. D. study. I was at Goethe Institut for German language. During such period I and Haeryun were invited to one German family in perfectly warm atmosphere I still admire. Exactly 40 years later I happened to see one familar photo shot on Facebook ! It was a kind of coincidence, because I am not usually any frequent surfer. It was an astonishing moment and a wonderfully positive experience of social media. I am very delighted with such rendezvous and expecting real 'see' in near future.
2021-03-23 00:00:00
Inaugural celebration with placard from KIMIRo Staff on Feb 26th afternoon 2021
Placard on celebration of inauguration as the first as well as founding president in full-time and chair professor of the uni. in parallel. KIMIRo will be my 4th job right after the retirement of the uni in the morning ! I promised to serve all KIMIRo staff with chicken and pizza in dozen of small rounds according to COVID19 regulations. I felt worth celebrating and enjoying for all.
2021-03-03 09:40:32
Retirement Ceremony of the Chonnam National University in the morning of Feb. 26th 2021
I joined College of mechanical engineering of the Chonnam National University for 16 years since Feb. 2005. My job chronicle : 5 years at Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart, 18 years at KIST, 16 years at Chonnam University and now further at Korea Institute of Medical Microrobotics[KIMIRo]... Actually since Jan. 2019 I have been already involved in KIMIRo in parallel with Univ. We celebrated with the faculty of college of mechanical engineering on site as well as on web app. I would say my stay at Chonnam University was another jump to the higher level of technology. I should appreciate all faculty colleagues for such trust and support ! I was newly selected as the Chair professor of Chonnam University for the coming couple of years.
2021-03-03 09:38:24
Meeting of KIMIRo Board of directors on Feb 17th 2021.
In this meeting Dr. Jung, sung taek, the new president of the Chonnam National University was elected and welcomed as the new Chairman of the KIMIRo Board unanimously.
2021-03-03 09:28:10
Kickoff web meeting for the 3rd year of the R&D program of the ministry of health & welfare
On Feb 4th 2021 we proceeded kickoff meeting for the 3rd project year of the ministry of health & welfare on web base. All participants presented short research plan for this year. Major focus was the system integration through combination of several Common Base Modules. Foreign experts also joined the meeting this time. Professor Kim from JHU was satisfied with joining the meeting even though it was 3 O'clock midnight in Baltimore. Prof. Misra also joined from Enschede. Ms. Joohyun Kim from KHIDI joined the meeting and she commented useful. After the meeting we all clapped for mutual appreciation and encouragement. Web meeting becomes routine.
2021-03-03 09:26:28
KIMIRo visit of the former Uni president and his former staff
On Jan 20th 2021 KIMIRo invited Mr. Jungchae Kang, the former Uni president, Mr. Youngcheol Lim, the former Director of R&BD and Mr. Heeseok Yoon, the former dean. 16 years ago I was requested to join Chonnam National University by the Uni president Kang from KIST. Thank you for inviting me. It was a eventually wonderful invitation - successful leap for me and nice achievements for Uni.
2021-03-03 09:25:31
KIMIRo excellent staff award 2020
Every year at the beginning of the year excellent staff have been awarded. This year, on Jan 08. 2021, Mr. Youngil Kim, Ms. Semi Choi, Mr. Gwangjun Ko, and Mr. Hansol Lee got the KIMIRo awards and small tip. Congratulations !
2021-03-03 09:24:05
2021 status change
My social status has been changed since March 1st 2021. - President in full-time, Korea Institute of Medical Microrobotics - Chair Prof. Chonnam National University Couple of years ago, there was a revised bill approved at the National Assembly. Since then, anyone in emeritus prof. cannot get any official governmental project. But such abrupt change is not well known, very strange. I am sure the revised bill does not match the global trend. I feel Lucky, I am still doing my job !! I am waiting, other people should argue about it to revise and to improve.
2021-03-01 00:00:00
Season's Greetings 2021 !
I appreciate cooperation with you all. Greetings with my KIMIRo colleagues this time.
2020-12-29 14:30:25