-Scouting talented people who will play the leading role in the beauty industry in the future

Our school is holding the first SCU Beauty Creator Contest, sponsored by our school's Beauty Design Department. It aims to explore Beauty Creators who will lead others in the beauty industry in keeping with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Any high school student or adult interested in beauty can apply.

Works should be submitted through our Beauty Design Department homepage (beauty.iscu.ac.kr) by November 7, 2021 for the first round and by December 5, 2021 for the second round. Works submitted should be a film not exceeding ten minutes related to hair, makeup, skin, nail art, etc. and should be made directly made by the participants; a model may be used where required. Prize winners will be selected based on the following factors: creativity, production capability, level of understanding the mission, perfectness, development potential, etc. The grand prize winner will receive 500,000 won. Gold, silver, and bronze winners will be presented with certificates of merit and cultural gift certificates.

This year, our school launched the Beauty Design Department to train beauty/esthetic experts to ride on the current K-beauty hallyu (current vogue for Korean pop culture). The department aims to train professionals specializing in arts and leaders in the relevant education (smart beauty care contents, K-beauty, etc.) in preparation for the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution, while teaching basic theories on beauty design including beauty art, hair, nail, makeup, and makeup for shows.

Our Beauty Design Department also operates a hi-tech practice studio for first-rate classes. It provides a working-level special lecture on updated beauty trend to help students adapt to the real situation. It also strives to provide good-quality education through arrangements made with the relevant businesses and associations such as the Korea Master Beautician Association, Korea Professional Makeup Artists Career Exchange Association, Korea Up Style Professional Association, Association of International Beauty technical certificate, Personal Color Coordinator Association, Association ofImageConsultants International Seoul Chapter, etc. We also seek to help students get opportunities to enhance their skills through practice and land jobs through arrangements made with beauty shops like Jenny House, Juno Hair, HWAMIJU Hair, IMEG Korea, GO Hair, etc.

 Talented people leading K-beauty should learn how to let their skills be widely known through diverse channels. I hope they can explore such possibility by doing what they can in showing off their skills at the contest, said Beauty Design Department Chair CHA Myeonghui.

SCU is striving to develop education model (On-Flex) and programs for education reforms befitting the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with financial support from MOE. This year, our school was selected for the K-MOOC (Korea Massive Open Online Course)Program for the fourth consecutive year, and it has been the top university selected for the program in 2021 in terms of the number of lectures. Our school is launching five courses within the year: ▲Psychology counselor for seniors (Prof. LEE Ugyeong and eight others) ▲The role of games in the contactless era spending daily lives healthily and affluently (Prof. CHA Myeonghui of the Beauty Design Department) ▲Integrated arts psychology for self-care (Prof. YEO Jeongyun and three others) ▲Daily finance in the contactless era (Prof. SEO Yeongsu) ▲Making classical friends (Prof. YUN Soyeong of the Piano Department).