Cheju Halla University Hosts
AI·DX Global Workshop with 5 ASEAN Countries
Built on the SEAMEO TED partnership, 50+ participants including 25 representatives from five ASEAN countries — the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia — came together to strengthen faculty capacity for the AI·DX era and to lay the groundwork for follow-on MOUs and an ODA-linked ESG Degree program.
Workshop Overview
The Cheju Halla University RISE Project (Anchor) hosted the "AI/DX Faculty Capacity Building Global Workshop" over four days at the Halla Convention Center and venues across Jeju. Built on partnership with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Centre for Technical Education Development (SEAMEO TED), the workshop ran under the theme "Human Resource Development for an AI-Driven World" as a signature program of the STUDY JEJU International Talent Attraction & Development Initiative.
Built on the SEAMEO TED Partnership
SEAMEO TED is the Regional Centre for Technical Education Development under the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization, serving as the TVET hub for 11 ASEAN nations. Building on this partnership, the CHU RISE Project designed the global workshop not as a one-off event but as the first step toward a sustainable framework for international education cooperation.
The theme — "Human Resource Development for an AI-Driven World" — framed the conversation: jointly defining the competencies educators and TVET managers need in the AI·DX era, and sharing models each country can take back to its own classrooms.
Five ASEAN Countries + Domestic — 50+ Participants
Twenty-five representatives from education institutions in five ASEAN countries — the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia — gathered in Jeju and were joined by 25 domestic RISE·STAI counterparts, totaling 50+ over four days. Delegates came from SEAMEO TED partner institutions as TVET·AI faculty and managers — not as a passive audience, but as fellow educators bringing real classroom problems with them.
Philippines
SEAMEO TED HQ country — TVET·AI faculty delegation
Vietnam
National TVET hub — AI·DX managers in attendance
Cambodia
Ministry-affiliated TVET institutes — faculty capacity track
Malaysia
AI-convergence faculty partner — joined the global workshop
Indonesia
ASEAN's largest TVET network — candidate for follow-on ODA cooperation
Keynote Talks — Global AI·DX Insights
The main sessions were anchored by three keynotes spanning industry, academia, and research — moving from the big picture (networks) to practice (platforms·LMS) to future tech (digital twins) — designed so delegates could concretely discuss how to transplant each idea back into their own systems.
Special VP Yong-Wook Jun — Pan-Asia AI Education Networks
Mapped out a broad vision for AI talent collaboration across Asian universities and institutions.
Director Donghoon Lee (Diquest) — AI Education Platforms & LMS Automation
Shared field-ready cases of AI-driven learning management and assessment automation.
Director Moses Jung (Pix4D) — Digital Twin · World Digitizer & System Thinker
Proposed new education and research models powered by spatial data and digital twins.
Workshop Highlights
Scenes from sessions, exchanges, and site visits across four days at the Halla Convention Center and venues throughout Jeju. Discussions in the classroom naturally extended into Jeju’s landscapes and industries, where participants reframed AI·DX education in the language of the field rather than the desk.
MOUs Signed & ODA-Linked ESG Degree Foundation Secured
During the workshop, bilateral MOUs were signed between Cheju Halla University and ASEAN partner institutions. These are not closing statements for a four-day event but formal commitments to co-design follow-on modules — faculty exchange, joint curricula, and student mobility.
The MOUs and workshop outcomes feed directly into a planned ODA-linked ESG Degree program. With ASEAN partners, the university plans to design a joint degree track that fuses ESG, AI, and DX — and to scale it into a sustainable global talent pipeline backed by Official Development Assistance.
A Signature Achievement of STUDY JEJU
The workshop established itself as the signature event of the RISE Project (Anchor) STUDY JEJU International Talent Attraction & Development Initiative. Co-running it with SEAMEO TED concretely showed that Jeju can act not merely as a destination city for students, but as an AI·DX education hub bridging ASEAN and Korea. For students, this means future STUDY JEJU enrollees and trainees inherit the network forged here — directly extending into learning, research, and career opportunities.