The Graduate School of Public Administration at Kookmin University (President Jung Seung-ryul) announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Seoul Metropolitan Government Civil Service Labor Union on January 23 at the Seoul City Hall's new government building to promote the development of administrative talent and mutual development through academic-government cooperation.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government Public Officials Labor Union was founded in 2006 as the nation's first public officials labor union to improve the rights and treatment of Seoul Metropolitan Government public officials. It is the largest public officials labor union in the country with 4,300 members.

The signing ceremony of the MOU was attended by Park Sang-cheol, the chairman of the Seoul Metropolitan Government Public Service Workers' Union, Park Sang-ah, the vice-chairman, Song Seok-beom, the head of the Urban Infrastructure Division, Hong Jeong-hee, the head of the Policy Division, Bang Hong-sik, the head of the General Affairs Team, and Chae Jae-gwang, the head of the Policy Team, from the Seoul Metropolitan Government Public Service Workers' Union, and Ha Hyun-sang, the dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, from Kookmin University. Professor Kim Jeong-jae and others attended the ceremony and agreed on ways to closely cooperate with each other for the capacity building of Seoul Metropolitan Government employees and the development of systems, policies, and research.

With this agreement, the two institutions are expected to establish a close cooperation system between the university and the institution and collaborate in various areas, including education, responding to mutual issues and measures, and other necessary matters.

At the signing ceremony, Ha Hyun-sang, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, said, “Contributing to the rights and capacity building of Seoul Metropolitan Government employees and supporting policy research is not only for the benefit of the 10 million citizens of Seoul, but also for the two institutions to practice the motto of Kookmin University, which is ‘national welfare for the people,’ so let's carefully and firmly build a win-win relationship.”

The Graduate School of Public Administration at Kookmin University is recruiting new students for the 2025 spring semester master's program from February 7 to February 13, 2025, and the selection process will be conducted through document review and interviews. The school offers six majors: Public Administration, Policy Studies, Audit, Community Governance, Art Gallery and Museum Studies, and Social Welfare. The faculty, which combines theory and practice in various administrative fields, provides systematic and practical education. Detailed admission information can be found on the Kookmin University Graduate School of Public Administration website (https://cms.kookmin.ac.kr/gspa/index.do).