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National flagship universities outside the capital are also not exempt from the financial struggles. Daegu Haany University is running a donation campaign called “The Guardian Angels” which aims to collect donations from 10,000 alumni. Hannam University in Daejeon is hosting a donation relay among its faculty members. Amid such a dearth of students, Korea’s provincial universities, like Daegu Catholic University, are getting creative to make ends meet. This year, a total of 162 four-year universities failed to meet their student quotas, with 75 percent of the 40,586 vacancies occurring in provincial universities outside of Seoul, according to the Ministry of Education’s 2021 University’s Student Quota Analysis. Schools can operate without meeting their quotas, but since 50 percent of schools’ finances come from its students’ tuition, this ability to satisfy the quota is critical for an institution to stay in operation. “During such difficult times for the nation’s universities, we are glad to be able to honor our valued donors.” Universities across the nation are grappling for survival as the younger academic population wanes and schools are unable to meet the required student quotas. “Since early this year, our school has been under emergency mode to gather money,” said Baek Seung-hwan, director of external affairs at Daegu Catholic University. Donors will be able to choose their own plots on a first-donate, first-serve basis, according to Daegu Catholic University. The space will hold about 500 bodies and both the donor and the donor’s spouse will be eligible for a plot each. Preparation for the new burial spaces will begin next month at a cemetery park located in Gunwi County, North Gyeongsang. The university’s idea to attract donations came after an unfulfilled student quota for its 2021 spring admissions, with only 84 percent of the total satisfied.
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The string of donations came after Woo’s announcement earlier this month to give a 20-square-foot patch of land at a cemetery park to donors who make a sizable contribution of more than 100 million won ($87,700) to the school’s development fund.
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“We added 12 new major donors in one week,” said Daegu Catholic University President Woo Dong-hee. Daegu Catholic University took a practical approach to attracting major donors once it found itself strapped for money and unable to fulfill its annual student quota, by offering them thank-you gifts of burial plots. For the spring semester of 2021, 162 out of 339 universities were unable to fulfil their student quotas, according to the Ministry of Education. A lecture hall at a provincial university is left unused for the school year as some classes have been canceled due to a lack of students.