ASIA/SOUTH KOREA - Daegu University hosts annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Universities of South East Asia

Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - Representatives, teachers and students of more than 51 Catholic colleges and universities in seven different countries of the Asian-Pacific region gathered at the Catholic University of Daegu, in South Korea for the annual Meeting of the Association of Catholic Universities of South East Asia.
This annual meeting is an important opportunity for consolidating relations and sharing reflections, ideas, projects at the university level. For three days participants from colleges in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea discussed various topics including the subject of international relations between universities, one of the founding goals of the Association; challenges posed by globalisation, new technology, inter-cultural and international competition facing Catholic colleges and universities today to meet the needs of the new generations of university students.
In his intervention, Rev Albert Suh Kyung-don, rector of Daegu Catholic University stressed that “the growth in high-tech calls for a reassessment of the importance of humanistic formation”. Rev Bosco Sohn Byug-du, rector of Sogang University agreed with regard to the need to balance in formation the teaching of humanistic disciplines with that of technical-scientific subjects, recalling that the specific goal of Catholic colleges is to transmit ethic and religious values in their didactic and cultural programmes, to guarantee students’ human, cultural, professional and spiritual growth . (PA) (Agenzia Fides 5/9/2006 righe 26 parole 267)