Recently, to address student crises arising from depression, academic discouragement, employment concerns, and school maladjustment, the University has rolled up its sleeves.

The Career Support Headquarters is enhancing student counseling through measures centered on the counseling team. It has improved the counseling system, built a pool of professional counselors, and is strengthening student counseling in various ways, including improving counseling response capabilities and providing higher-quality services.

As part of building a pool of professional counselors, since April the Headquarters has selected visiting counselors who hold counseling professional certifications. These counselors, together with professional staff counselors, provide students with more prompt counseling services.

Graduate students from counseling-related departments have also been selected as intern counselors. They are supporting counseling work and receiving training to develop into professional counselors.

Notably, on June 5 the Headquarters appointed Professor Young‑Chul Jeong of the Medical School (Department of Psychiatry), Professor Young‑Soon Lee of the College of Social Science (Department of Psychology), and Sun‑Mi Lee, Director of the Jo‑Woo Psychological Counseling Center, as adjunct counseling professors for the Career Support Headquarters. Through psychiatric diagnosis and treatment consultation, individual counseling and psychological assessment consultation, and counseling professional training, the counseling professors plan to provide top-level counseling services to students who report psychological maladjustment.

In May, the Headquarters provided faculty and staff with a special lecture on "Prevention and Response to Student Suicide Risk." The session trained participants to identify and respond to students in difficulty and to guide them to counseling services. The program aimed to create a campus atmosphere in which anyone can offer comfort to students facing hardship.

During the Daedongje festival period, the Headquarters also conducted a life-respect campaign for students, which included a suicide-related questionnaire survey, self-assessments for depression, interpersonal problems, and stress, and information about student counseling services.

In the second semester, a variety of crisis counseling and prevention programs will be offered to students. Alongside suicide prevention lectures, the University will identify students at high risk of school maladjustment and provide programs such as stress management and social skills training to enhance their ability to adapt to university life. The University also plans to operate a "Student Gatekeeper Training Program" to encourage peer students to take part in suicide prevention support activities and campaigns.

Lee Gwi‑jae, Director of the Career Support Headquarters, said, "It appears that not only students but also faculty and staff lack awareness of psychological issues and school adaptation compared with employment preparation. We are working to broaden the community's awareness of student counseling, for example by changing the main student counseling number to 4242 ("Precious Connections"). I hope that continued efforts to strengthen student counseling and active participation by students will help our students enjoy vibrant university lives and grow into healthy members of society."

Meanwhile, the Career Support Headquarters' counseling team operates ongoing intensive individual counseling and regular psychological testing related to personality and aptitude.