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| The alternative is public foundation |
Make public foundation!¡± Many HUFSans can
see the words here and there in the campus. Because the official term of
the 3rd temporary government-appointed trustee is supposed to be completed
by end of the year. And some members of former foundation side are watching
for a chance to intervene the foundation issue.
The foundation problem must be solved democratically by all of HUFS members.
Regarding the on-and-off campus circumstances, making public foundation
is the suitable alternative among other things. And HUFSans must come out
and show their strong will to construct public foundation like the one in
1998, which played an important role to kick out the old-foundation.
Constituting public foundation, however, is not a simple matter. Nevertheless,
it must be promoted continuously since it is an indispensable condition
to develop HUFS in the long run. Constituting public foundation means giving
back school and foundation to its members including students, staffs as
well as society. In other words, ownership needs to be reorganized. It may
sound very strange in democratic society.
So far, however, private universities in Korea were operated by absurd foundations
to satisfy their desires. Because most of them were established to protect
and enrich property safely in 1950s, when government offered a lot of privileges,
such as tax reduction. Those private universities usually brought campus
conflict with corrupt managements. Especially, it reaches the climax after
the death of founder. From then on, corrupt benefit-holders are eager to
maintain and to occupy vested rights. Chosun University, Sangji University,
Duksung Women¡¯s University and other many universities experienced the conflict.
HUFS wasn¡¯t an exception, of course. After death of Kim Heung-bae, the founder
of HUFS, his wife Lee Sook-kyong brought her nephew, Park Seung-joon, who
had nothing to do with HUFS. Despite of being a trustee, he mismanaged and
didn¡¯t have any concerns to develop HUFS.
Finally, HUFSans exploded in 1998. He drove HUFSans crazy. Mr. Park, the
executive trustee at that time, did a lot of wrongfulness, including misappropriate
public money, and administrative absurdity. He even filled most members
of the board of trustee with his friends and acquaintances. With HUFSans¡¯
strong will, the Ministry of Education cancelled appointing the board of
trustee. HUFSans succeeded to expel old foundation. After that incident,
government has been dispatching temporary trustees
To stop that kind of misfortune, democratic foundation must be settled.
But, it is a difficult problem to solve as it stated earlier. It is said
that the best way to complete foundation issue and to develop HUFS is to
nationalize it. Considering the current situation, however, most realistic
alternative is to constitute public foundation. Above all, once the board
of trustees is composed of pure-hearted men, HUFS can be operated fairly
by HUFSans¡¯ will. In addition, transparent management can be a stepping-stone
for nationalization as well as attracting large amount of donation like
Yonsei University.
On September 17, HUFSans had a demonstration to prevent so-called 4:2:2:1
plan at the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MOE).
The ministry said to them that so-called 4:2:2:1 plan was withdrawn because
it is not right. With the retreat, public foundation is closer to HUFS than
ever before. Also, it is time to look up HUFSans¡¯ head to reform the foundation.
HUFSans need to have more concern on the issue. In General Student Meeting
on September 26, president and vice-president of GSC had their head shaved
to show strong will for establishing public foundation. It must show effect
in establishing public foundation. But it depends on HUFSans whether public
foundation will be established or not. HUFSans want reappearance of its
victory in 1998. |
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