The HUSS Environmental Consortium (Kookmin University, Deoksung Women's University, Ulsan University, Inha University, and Chosun University) and the YWCA of Seoul held a proclamation ceremony for the Campus Edition of the Pleasant Inconvenience Campaign on Friday, May 1, to create a sustainable campus that responds to climate change based on cooperation with civil society.

Campaign for Pleasant Discomfort in progress

The declaration ceremony was attended by more than 50 people, including the Climate Change Response Project Team of Kookmin University (President Jung Seung-ryul), the host university of the environmental consortium, Kang Yoon-hee (Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies), YWCA Seoul President Cho Yeon-shin, YWCA officials, and environmental club members from the five universities of the environmental consortium, Kookmin University, Deoksung Women's University, Inha University, Ulsan University, and Chosun University.

The Fun Discomfort Campaign in Action

At the event, Kim Hyun-sook, Team Leader of the Life Movement Team, introduced the Pleasant Inconvenience Campaign and the HUSS Environmental Consortium by research professor Jung Ha-yoon of Kookmin University, while Han Byul (Political Science and Diplomacy 20) of Kookmin University and Seo Eun-young (Computer Statistics 20) of Chosun University presented the activity plans of the environmental clubs of the five universities in the consortium, revealing the purpose of the Pleasant Inconvenience Campaign, which is to be carried out on campus by students. 
Kookmin University's environmental clubs, Net Zero and DECO, plan to continue the on-campus fun inconvenience movement, which aims to practice, enjoy, and share green life, green rights, and green benefits for a sustainable campus.

After the proclamation ceremony, an environmental campaign called “Jokene, Interested in Environmental Movement” was held in Myeongdong. The campaign was selected from ideas provided by members of environmental clubs at five universities, and presented four environmental campaigns, asking citizens to vote on which environmental campaign they would like to participate in. The campaign items were made by recycling trash such as snack boxes and plastic bottle caps.

“It was meaningful to see what kind of climate action citizens are interested in through the campaign that followed the declaration ceremony, and I am looking forward to the solidarity of the five university environmental clubs,” said Younghoon Jung (Russia-Eurasia 24) from Kookmin University.

The HUSS Environmental Consortium is part of the HUSS Humanities and Society Convergence Talent Development Project, organized by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea, and is a collaboration between Kookmin University and four other universities (Deoksung Women's University, Ulsan University, Inha University, and Chosun University) to foster future humanities and society talents with problem-solving capabilities and convergent thinking through interdisciplinary education by breaking down boundaries between universities and majors.