2024 Kwangwoon University Freshman Welcome Music Concert

On March 26, 2024, at 6 p.m., the '2024 Kwangwoon University Freshman Welcome Music Concert', organized by the College of Electronics and Information Engineering (Dean Hyeon-cheol Shin),  was held at the small theater of Donghae Art Center. This event was held to welcome the incoming freshmen of 2024 and was successfully carried out with enthusiastic responses from about 150 audience members. The Freshman Welcome Music Concert, which began in March 2018 and continued for seven years, is becoming a traditional event at our university held in March.

The university's music club "Noel" performed renditions of 'As Much as I Waited, More (The Black Skirts)', 'As Long as You Are There (Nerd Connection)', and 'Graduation (10cm)', followed by the club "Trick" presenting magic tricks using cards accompanied by background music, receiving thunderous applause from the audience. Then, the club "C-SPOT" performed original songs such as 'Feel High', 'Air Raid Alert', and 'Peace Out', and finally, the club "Pegasus" dynamically performed band renditions of 'Hysteria' and 'Quasimodo', eliciting a fervent response from the audience.

In the second part of the event, amateur/professional vocalists took the stage, starting with tenor Han Deokman's rendition of 'Funiculi-Funicula (Cable Car)', followed by a heartfelt performance by eight vocalists, including Professor Jong-cheol Lee from the Department of Electronic Convergence Engineering, delivering love to the incoming freshmen through songs like 'Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (You are my whole heart)'. The concert ended with a performance of 'Volare (Fly Away)' by baritone Sunghoo Lee.

Professor Jong-cheol Lee from the Department of Electronic Convergence Engineering who planned the event, expressed his sincere welcome and blessings to the freshmen who entered Kwangwoon University in 2024. He said, “Despite the challenging conditions, I sincerely welcome and bless the new students who entered Kwangwoon University in 2024, and hope that they will grow their dreams and develop their skills during their time at Kwangwoon University. I prepared the concert with the hope that they  will spend their golden years of their lives at Kwangwoon University, creating many good memories of life here." “Although the budget and environment were limited in various ways, we were able to complete the event well with the best of our abilities under the given conditions, led by the emergency response team students from the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, the cooperation of various clubs , and the active support from the administrative departments (such as the Public Relations Team of the Office of External and International Affairs , the Office of Admissions), the administrative office of the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, and Mr. Haiyong Lee, manager of Donghae Cultural Arts Center.I hope that it will develop into the school-level event rather than an event organized by me so that more students can participate in it, and the program will be more fulfilling, and that it will become a meaningful early semester event even though  Kwangwoon University does not have a music department.

Meanwhile, the event, lasting about two hours, was sponsored by Wavepia Inc. (Represented by Dr. Sanghoon Lee, Kwangwoon University, Department of Electronic Engineering, Alumnus).